# Now and for a Time

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- Book: [Now and for a Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-fuller/now-and-for-a-time) ([Now and for a Time.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-fuller/now-and-for-a-time.md))
- Authors: [John Fuller](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-fuller)
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- ISBN: 978-07-0117-351-7
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2002-07-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves himself, once again, a true master of this art. They take us from birth to death: from a baby's first delightful babblings, to the dignified, measured words of a man surveying his life and marriage, and looking forward into the unknown. There are moments of great joie de vivre, of pleasure in the earthy things of life; and yet, beyond, there is always a sense of a vaster, more elusive universe. The snorting of the horses in a field in 'Dreams', the egret on the rock in 'Sentinel': these are nature's mysteries. To make sense of these, we have language and music. Celebratory, playful, reconciled to the questions that will not be answered, these poems exude a miraculous kind of peace and understanding: 'A point of closure that allows the next/Inevitable sentence to begin'.