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"Love settled on the smile across the room and said: This is she. You shall cherish her all your years: her radiance today, her beauty in the middle passage, her loveliness in age. She is yours to keep and hold." In Love Poems for My Wife, Victoria, George Hobson allows us into the intimate world of his God-given love for his wife. He takes us on a journey through the lifetime of their love from when they met, through many snapshots of their experiences to Victoria's illness and his heartbreaking hope and prayers to the Lord. We get a sense of her goodness, compassion and love of life as well…mehr

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"Love settled on the smile across the room and said: This is she. You shall cherish her all your years: her radiance today, her beauty in the middle passage, her loveliness in age. She is yours to keep and hold." In Love Poems for My Wife, Victoria, George Hobson allows us into the intimate world of his God-given love for his wife. He takes us on a journey through the lifetime of their love from when they met, through many snapshots of their experiences to Victoria's illness and his heartbreaking hope and prayers to the Lord. We get a sense of her goodness, compassion and love of life as well as the strength of their love and togetherness which has deepened with time and knowledge, all portrayed through his intense and powerful imagery.
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George Hobson is a priest in the Episcopal/Anglican Church. He has lived in France for over half his life, working with both French and English-speaking churches. He studied theology at Oxford in the 1980s and earned his doctorate in 1989. From 1995 to 2000 he held the post of Canon Pastor at the American Cathedral in Paris. With his wife Victoria he has travelled extensively in developing countries, notably Rwanda, Haiti, Pakistan, and Armenia, teaching courses in theological colleges. His first book of poetry, illustrated with his own art photographs, was published in England in 2005. Since then, with Wipf and Stock, he has published two books of theological/social analysis and four volumes of poetry: The Parthenon, May Day Morning in Yerevan, Heights and Depths, and A Far Country Here. His poem Sun Patch won Second Prize in the International Bridport Poetry Competition in 1995.