Lent

In this compelling collection of poems, Martyn Halsall embraces the Lenten season not just as a Christian observance but as a state of being one of wilderness, waiting and transformation. His poetry resists straightforward answers, instead inviting readers into a space of stillness and questioning, where meanings shift and possibilities unfold. From personal memories to historical and contemporary struggles, Halsalls work moves through exile, pilgrimage and alienation, always attuned to the unexpected and the peripheral. His poems do not assert but explore, asking, What if? and answering, Yes, but offering both reflection and reappraisal. With a journalists eye and a poets heart, Martyn Halsall crafts a collection that is both a passport and a signpost, guiding readers through Lents deeper resonances. Life itself, he suggests, is something we are lent a gift, a process, a question still unfolding.