A Companion Book by Brian J. Walsh: Keening and Kindling: The Bell, the Bard and Redemptive Imagination (theologian Brian Walsh deeply engages the music and poetry of Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite).

Of the book, Brian comments: “While the artistic body of work that has emerged from the collaboration of Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite needs no “explanation,” it does invite (if not require) a creative theological response. The Bell and the Bard is a significant imaginative achievement that proves to be generative of further imaginative work at the interface of their art, scripture and our present cultural context. Building upon previous books I’ve written on U2, Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen and Steve Bell, this book adds my voice to the shaping of a liberating imagination in conversation with Bell and Guite.”

Brian’s previous books have profoundly illuminated, for me, the works of the artists he writes about.