Publications | Marlene Marburg

Dreams and Desires, edited by Marlene Marburg, 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 $18 + postage/handling ($5 per book within Australia; $7 per book to New Zealand/Asia; $10 per book to Europe/UK/USA)

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.

NEW: 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 $24 + postage/handling ($5 per book within Australia; $7 per book to New Zealand/Asia; $10 per book to Europe/UK/USA)

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 $30 + postage/handling ($5 per book within Australia; $12 per book outside Australia)

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 $25 + postage/handling ($4 per book within Australia; $10 per book outside Australia)

Grace Undone: Complete Series (3 books – purchase together)

Cost of all three books (when purchased together): $74 + postage/handling ($12 in Australia; $30 outside Australia)

Grace Undone: Love and Grace Undone: Passion (2 books – purchase together)

Cost of both books (when purchased together): $52 + postage/handling ($9 in Australia and $22 outside Australia)

An Ordinary Woman

Melbourne: Windsor Scroll Publishing, 2005, 2017

A book of prayer, imaginative reflection and 18 poems in which Mary’s relationship with Jesus is the focus.

Cost: An Ordinary Woman is $15 + postage/handling ($5 per book within Australia; $7 per book to New Zealand/Asia; $10 per book to Europe/UK/USA)

Real Parents: Confronting Adoption Issues (currently out of print)

Melbourne: Windsor Scroll Publishing, 1998

Narrative of adoption and adoptive parents, and the impact of reunion with first parents.

NEW: Grace upon Grace: Savouring the Spiritual Exercises through the Arts offers a creative arts adaptation of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius as well as an eight-day retreat in the Ignatian tradition. The text is invitational in order that givers and receivers of the spiritual exercises will find it generously accommodates a variety of people and contemporary spiritualities.

If you would like to order a copy or copies of this new book, soon to be released, please email Marlene at marlene.marburg@kardia.com.au

or go to

https://morningstarpublishing.net.au/product/grace-upon-grace/

Grace Upon Grace

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.