Dreams and Desires
Edited by Marlene Marburg, Dreams and Desires is an 84-page square paper-back anthology of poems and prose which showcases the important emerging consciousness of over 40 people from around the globe. When asked their dreams and desires in this changing world, the themes of love, justice and attentiveness emerged as paramount. The heart-felt responses will move the reader again and again.
Cost: Dreams and Desires is $12 + postage/handling ($8.50 per book within Australia; Other postage destinations will be invoiced)
Grace Undone
Melbourne: Windsor Scroll Publishing, 2014-2016
All three volumes in the series Grace Undone are now available.
Based on the graced experience of praying the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, the poetry series Grace Undone explored a breadth of life experience in the light of God’s transformative and empowering love.
Grace Undone: Encounter is the final gift book in the series Grace Undone. As a series, the three books are companions to the prayer of the Seasons of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius. Individual books are complete works in themselves. Grace Undone. Encounter includes imaginative contemplations on Gospel-texts as well as poems on life and Mystery. The book offers parallel scriptural texts for many of the poems.
Cost: Grace Undone: Encounter is on sale at $12 + postage/handling (postage costs will be calculated and invoiced on receipt of order)
Grace Undone: Passion is a double collection gift book of 160 pages which speaks to the experience of suffering and joy.
Cost: Grace Undone: Passion is now $15 + postage/handling (postage costs will be invoiced on receipt of order)
Grace Undone: Love is a gift book of 98 pages of poems about life, love, and how disgrace is transformed to life-giving grace.
Cost: Grace Undone: Love is now $15 + postage/handling (postage will be calculated and invoiced upon order)
Grace Undone: Complete Series (3 books – purchase together)
Cost of all three books (when purchased together): $42 + postage/handling (postage will be calculated and invoiced upon order)
Grace Undone: Love and Grace Undone: Passion (2 books – purchase together)
Cost of both books (when purchased together): $30 + postage/handling (postage will be calculated and invoiced upon order)
An Ordinary Woman
Melbourne: Windsor Scroll Publishing, 2005, 2017
A book of prayer, imaginative reflection and 18 poems in the Ignatian tradition of imaginative contemplation. The focus of the book is Mary’s relationship with Jesus.
Cost: An Ordinary Woman has been reduced to $10 + postage/handling (postage will be calculated and invoiced on receipt of order)
Grace upon Grace: Savouring the Spiritual Exercises through the Arts (second edition) Sydney, Australia. Acorn Press) 2024, offers a creative arts adaptation (especially poetry) of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius as well as an eight-day retreat in the Ignatian tradition. The text is invitational to both givers and receivers of the spiritual exercises. Readers will find it inclusive, accommodating a range of contemporary spiritualities. The book includes a Glossary of Ignatian and other terms.
If you would like to order copies of this book, please email Marlene at marlene.marburg@kardia.com.au or marlene@marlenemarburg.com.au
Grace upon Grace is $27 AUS plus postage and handling. You will be invoiced on receipt of your order.
For ebooks of Grace upon Grace go to www.kobo.com
Some Published Articles
Marburg, Marlene. “Courage to Explore Hidden Stories: Sometimes It Causes Me to Tremble.” Presence 20, no. 4 (2014): 47-51.
_____________. “Imaginative Co-Creation through Poetry and Ignatian Spiritual Direction.” Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 21, no. 2 (2015): 48-54.
_____________. “Landscapes of Contemporary Spiritual Direction in Australia.” Presence 22, no. 4 (2016): 28-37.