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Magi
four poems for Christmas or Epiphany

→ Magi

→ The journey

→ The gifts

→ The epiphany

These poems re-tell the Magi's journey as an allegory of the development of human knowledge and science, ending with the epiphany of the Christ overturning all our understanding of the nature of true power. The sequence can form the basis of a Christmas or Epiphany service. Any number of readers can be used, with the text broken up between them. The poems also stand alone as single readings, The epiphany in particular.

The sequence was written for the carol service at St John's, West Ealing in 1998.