Luci Shaw
Luci Shaw (born 1928 in London, England) is a Christian poet.
Shaw studied at Wheaton College, Illinois and is now Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. She lectures on art and spirituality, the Christian imagination, poetry-writing, and journaling as an aid to artistic and spiritual growth.[1]
She has published ten volumes of poetry (several still in print) and numerous non-fiction books, and has edited and collaborated on multiple other works, including several with Madeleine L'Engle. Her poems are widely anthologized.[2] Shaw usually works in free verse, and typically her poems are quite short, less than a page. Nevertheless, in tone and content, she affiliates most readily with the transcendental poets, often finding in natural details and themes the touch of the eternal or other-worldly.
Shaw married Harold Shaw, and had five children. Harold died of cancer in 1986, and in 1991 Luci married John Hoyte.[3] She and Hoyte are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Bellingham, Washington.[2]
Use in music
A number of Shaw's works have been set to music, by a variety of composers:
- Alan Cline used "God in the Dark" as the basis for a cantata.
- Knut Nystedt (Norwegian composer) did a setting for "Mary's Song," sung and recorded by the Elektra Choir of Vancouver, Canada. Album title: Child of Grace.
- Alice Parker set three of Shaw's poems for a song cycle.
- Frederick Frahm composed settings for solo and choir for three of Shaw's poems, "Star Song," "Down He Came From Up," and "Heart Stable."
- Ed Henderson (Canadian) composed a choral setting for "Star Song."
- Roland Fudge (English) composed a choral setting for "One," "Celestial Light," and "Steadfast Taper."
