{"product_id":"dark-night-by-john-of-the-cross-translated-by-martha-sprackland-pre-order-br-poetry-book-society-translation-choice-summer-2026-b","title":"Dark Night by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland PRE-ORDER \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry Book Society Translation Choice Summer 2026\u003c\/b\u003e","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished 21 May 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘O living flame of love,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow tenderly you scorch me’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T.S. Eliot and Mary Oppen. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Cross’s complete poems and a selection of his prose, including from his extended commentary on the poem ‘Dark Night’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his immediate, sensual writing, we see a soul searching for meaning and union with the divine: both meek and bold, deserving and undeserving, oscillating between light and dark, soaring and falling, desperation and salvation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Night\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003egives us a picture of faith at once confronting and inspiriting, and of the power of words as a means of spiritual transcendence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Martha Sprackland, with an introduction by Colin Thompson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57242757300606,"sku":"9780241699294","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/1776092549.jpg?v=1776092619","url":"https:\/\/www.poetrybooks.co.uk\/products\/dark-night-by-john-of-the-cross-translated-by-martha-sprackland-pre-order-br-poetry-book-society-translation-choice-summer-2026-b","provider":"The Poetry Book Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}