“. . . by choosing the early mediaeval practice of forming a series of thirty-three word poems, a word for each year of Jesus’ earthly life, Andrew Roycroft has crafted a series of miniatures, like little prayer beads, or perhaps more like mediaeval illuminations, each of which can both concentrate and expand your contemplation as you sound out its syllables on your tongue and lift its images up to your mind’s eye.”—Malcolm Guite