Seeking Byland: Poems through the Seasons from Stanbrook Abbey by Dame Laurentia Johns OSB ( published by Gracewing in 2020 at £9.99): These poems are shapely and slender, like glasses holding an aperitif.They see traces of the Resurrection in heaped leaves and other unlikely places, and so proffer hope as irrepressibly as a life of prayer.It is good that they are being brough together and published here.May many turn their eyes and ears to them.Hugh Gilbert, Bishop of Aberdeen. The four seasons of the year remind us that growth occurs gradually throughout each quarter.These poems of Dame Laurentia help us to deepen our Christian calling through the liturgical seasons of the Church-Father James.