Gethsemane by Atar Hadari Jonathan Totman This substantial volume is a

This substantial volume is a tribute to the maturing voice of an essential poet

the where and who we want to be

" he writes ironically early in the collection

Celebrating its successful 25 years in print

“The reader is immediately plunged into this account of resistance in Kent during the Civil War as if hearing a contemporary news bulletin

Gethsemane by Atar Hadari Jonathan Totman This substantial volume is aA collection of monologue poems by characters from the New Testament, viewed from the perspective of their Jewish background. Thinking his way back into situations depicted in the stories of the New Testament and what their Jewish legal and social context probably will have been, Atar Hadari places the voices of different characters, finding the tension between what the reality would have been and how such a voice would sound in todays world. Echoes