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You could have knocked me down with a feather

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I understand that the King asked for this poem by ⁦ @malcolmguite ⁩ to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas.

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Zoom meetings were just as dire in the Middle Ages ( you can tell from the expressions)

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Shiona Guite 1918-2020. My mother was the source and kindling of poetry in me. She died peacefully with her children at her side blessed on her way with poetry and prayer. May she rest in peace and rise in glory

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I only attended rather than taking the midnight but I believe my poetry stood proxy for me in other services #ClergyMaltClub

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This touch of golden beauty before breakfast will be helping me face the day

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Huzzah! Today I completed the first full draft of my epic cycle of poems on the Holy Grail - 19 ballads - 164 pages Time for a rest and a glass of single malt!

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As I pray for the queen in her grief I remember the day when Prince Phillip randomly handed me a ceremonial sword and said, with a wicked grin, ‘take this - you look as if you know what to do with it!’ I’ll tell the story in next week’s @ChurchTimes

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Years ago my mother gave me this beautiful plaque to adorn ‘The Temple of Peace’ -my writing hut. Today, on the first anniversary of her death, I affix it to the new Temple of Peace in the garden in North Walsham and remember her with immense gratitude

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My books are like buses: you wait ages for one and then two come along at the same time!

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May I say a big thank you to everyone who has sent me messages of condolence and comfort after my Mother’s death. It’s been very heartening. I will say more eventually, but here we are together on her 101st Birthday!

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Huzzah! My new book with @canterburypress has arrived!

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So I drew freely on the ideas of NT Wright & Richard Hays for my sermon this morning and then discovered they were both in the congregation!

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This honour came as a complete surprise, but it gave us a lovely afternoon at Lambeth Palace

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There is a thoughtful article profiling me in @CTmagazine Kara Bettis who interviewed me twice has done a fine job weaving it all together and it’s a good representation of our conversations

A Poet for ‘Bruised Evangelicals’

Malcolm Guite has found himself a sort of tribal elder for younger generations of Christians.

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A rather Narnian lamppost on the way back to my Oxford digs for the #PuseyConference

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I am honoured and delighted to have been the subject of a fine lino-cut by the gifted @stephencrotts It will come out in a forthcoming book from @squarehalobooks

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Official photo and citation for the Lanfranc award have arrived. It surprised me, but whether I merit it or not, I feel it’s an affirmation of the role of poetry in the life of the church.

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First evening in the new house - this seems like a good sign!

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Easter Glory in the Yorkshire Dales!

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A glimpse of glory on my morning walk

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It’s increasingly rare that anyone in my audience is older than I am, but on this occasion…

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I’m an Englishman in New York

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Here goes then #MeAt20 poised between Zen and mystical Christianity (with one or two other things thrown in!)

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An Englishman in New York!

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I had an unexpected message today from someone trapped in Wuhan to say that she has found strength and hope in one of my sonnets. Surprised me, stimulated my prayers, and reminded me of the power of poetry to cross borders!

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The strongest comes in weakness now A stranger to our door The king forsakes his palaces And dwells amongst the poor. And where we hurt he hurts with us And when we weep he cries He knows the heart of all our hurts The inside of our sighs.

A Tale of Two Gardens: a New Christmas Poem

Here is a new poem I wrote to go with a festival of lessons and carols which was part of a touring concert put on by Keith and Kristin Getty called ‘An Irish Christmas’. I was their gue…

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King Alfred’s day and by chance I find myself in Wantage where he was born. Would that our present government would undertake even half of Alfred’s program of restoration set out on the base of his statue.

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So today I was supposed to answer some difficult emails and work on my tax returns, but I felt rebellious, so I spent the day writing a 300 line ballad about Sir Galahad instead!

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And where we hurt he hurts with us And when we weep he cries He knows the heart of all our hurts The inside of our sighs. He does not look down from above But gazes up at us That we might take him in our arms Who always cradles us. via @malcolmguite

A Tale of Two Gardens: a New Christmas Poem

Here is a new poem I wrote to go with a festival of lessons and carols which was part of a touring concert put on by Keith and Kristin Getty called ‘An Irish Christmas’. I was their gue…

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Just been to a wonderful Advent service at St. John’s College Cambridge and heard the 1st performance of Jo Marsh’s setting of a new poem of mine -it was beautifully done. It will be on BBC radio 3 on Advent Sunday

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I should have spent the afternoon answering emails but instead I spent it writing Arthurian poetry. #youcantrefusethemuse

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In the days when I was ‘the Rockin Rev’ and a kind of Padre to hardcore bikers I was asked if we could play Bat Out of Hell at a funeral. I paused and said ‘Yes, definitely. The bat is flying in the right direction!’ #Meatloaf

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I used to have a setting on my TARDIS which meant that it couldn’t be photographed, but I must have forgotten to turn it on and now some passing photographer has revealed my identity as a Time Lord

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George and I are on the boat at last!

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That thing when you’re at the artist entrance of The Grand Ole Opry and the next thing you know you’re on stage, that

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I find my poem about jamming a photocopier framed above the photocopier in @VTS_Seminary

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@BethMooreLPM Thanks Beth. I’ll take you up on that Heavenly pipe when the time comes. Maybe we can get CS Lewis to light up too!

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On the eve of his 250th birthday I pause by the shrouded statue of Coleridge, a little eerie in the autumn darkness, ready to be unveiled tomorrow

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just signed off the final text for this new book. Glad to know that my reflections on Imagination and the Gospel are safely held between the art of #WilliamBlake and #BruceHerman

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Huzzah! My author’s copies of my new @canterburypress press book David’s Crown have arrived! Always a great moment when midnight’s glimmering idea becomes a reality in the clear light of day.

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‘The wheel’s kick and the wind’s so Ng and the white sails shaking…’

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‘Somewhere between Rowan Williams and TS Eliot’ not a bad place to find myself.

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Luckily I still have last year’s palm cross and can still cry Hosanna!

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Still a little rough around the edges post-Covid but buoyed up by the arrival of @TheRabbitRoom ’s Lost Tales of Sir Galahad to which I contributed a ballad

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Saw this on my recent trip to America. So simple, if only Moses had known!

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Once more I find all my American friends getting excited about a superb owl! Though apparently this year those attending to the owl were distracted because some kind of swift had flown into the arena… #ornithology #SuperBowl2024

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O Mind behind the mind through which I seek, O Light within the light by which I see, O Word beneath the words with which I speak, O founding, unfound Wisdom, finding me, O Sapientia an Advent Antiphon

O Sapientia an Advent Antiphon

The poem I have chosen for December 17th in my Advent Anthology from Canterbury Press Waiting on the Word, is my own sonnet O Sapientia, the first in a sequence of seven sonnets on t…

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We saw him go and yet we were not parted He took us with him to the heart of things The heart that broke for all the broken-hearted Is whole and Heaven-centred now, and sings, A Sonnet for #Ascension Day

A Sonnet for Ascension Day

Here is a sonnet for Ascension Day, the glorious finale of the Easter Season. I’m posting it a day in advance, in case anyone would like to use it in a service, either on the day itself…

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O come, O come, and be our God-with-us O long-sought With-ness for a world without, O secret seed, O hidden spring of light. Come to us Wisdom, come unspoken Name Come Root, and Key, and King, and holy Flame, O Emmanuel; a final antiphon and more music

O Emmanuel; a final antiphon and more music

In my Advent Anthology from Canterbury Press Waiting on the Word,we come to the last of the Seven Great O Antiphons, which was sung on either side of the Magnificat on Christmas Eve,…

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Scribe of the Kingdom, keeper of the door Which opens on to all we might have lost, Ward of a word-hoard in the deep hearts core Telling the tale of Love from first to last. CS Lewis: A Sonnet

CS Lewis: A Sonnet

Scribe of the Kingdom, Keeper of the Door As well as being t St. Cecilia’s day, 22nd November is also the day CS Lewis died in 1963. I remember the great celebration of his life, work and wit…

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A sound behind her stirs A scatter of bright birdsong through the air. She turns, but cannot focus through her tears, Or recognise the Gardener standing there. A Sonnet for Easter Dawn

A Sonnet for Easter Dawn

The Lord is Risen! He is risen indeed Alleluia! Heres is an extra ‘fifteenth’ sonnet for Easter Morning, which I dedicate to my friend Mary who asked me to write it, and to the memory o…

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The essential instruction in all liturgy is ‘light the fuse and stand back!’ Sometimes I take that literally.

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That thing when you connect with the lead singer of Iron Maiden at Blake’s grave and end up talking Coleridge #Blake #Bunhillfields #mariner

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The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine has asked Christians to join him in reciting psalm 31 tonight, so I thought I would also repost this: Held Together And Re-Membered: a response to psalm 31 via @malcolmguite

Held Together And Re-Membered: a response to psalm 31

Psalm 31 is one of those psalms that expresses best the paradox of the whole psalter: that even when we feel like we are falling apart we are still held together by God, even when we cry to God tha…

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NY resolution: I must go down to the shed again the lonely shed and the den And all I ask is a kindly muse and a hand to guide my pen, and the verse- kick, and the vowel-song and words, warm and willing, and a quiet time, and a full rhyme and the white page filling.

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all in a hot and copper sky the bloody sun at noon right up above the mast did stand no bigger than the moon #Coleridge #redsun

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‘Easter 2020’: A New Poem

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‘Post a pic of yourself as the leader of an underground movement without taking any new photos’

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We think of him as safe beneath the steeple, Or cosy in a crib beside the font, But he is with a million displaced people On the long road of weariness and want. The #HolyInnocents (Refugee)

The Holy Innocents (Refugee)

The poem from my Anthology Waiting on the Word reflects on the fact that today, the fourth day of Christmas, is the feast day of the Holy Innocents. It is the day the Church remembers the story, to…

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They did not know his name but still they sought him, They came from otherwhere but still they found; In temples they found those who sold and bought him, But in the filthy stable, hallowed ground. A Sonnet for #Epiphany

A Sonnet for Epiphany

these three arrive and bring us with themThe Feast of the Epiphany falls on the 6th of January. Epiphany celebrates the arrival of the three wise men at the manger in Bethlehem has a special m…

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I am safely arrived at @VTS_Seminary and looking forward to reading and composing poetry here!

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My little YouTube channel A Spell in the library, which I started in lockdown so a few friends could ‘drop by’, seems to have been discovered recently by many more people. If you’d like to visit, and subscribe it’s here

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Musings, readings, welcome, and conviviality from poet, priest and scholar Malcolm Guite

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Delighting in the profusion of delicate cherry blossom here in Washington

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Just been to @BBCRadio4 to take part in a recording for a #greatlives program on #Tolkien huge fun

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He calls us out of darkness, chaos, chance, To improvise a music of our own, To sing the chord that calls us to the dance, Three notes resounding from a single tone, To sing the End in whom we all begin; Our God beyond, beside us and within.

A Sonnet for Trinity Sunday

Returning for a moment to my cycle of sonnets for the Church Year, here is one for Trinity Sunday which I am posting a couple of days early, in case people would like to make use of it on Sunday. B…

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I am thrilled to have encountered alligators in the wild whilst on a speaking tour in Florida!

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Michaelmas gales assail the waning year, And Michael’s scale is true, his blade is bright. He strips dead leaves; and leaves the living clear To flourish in the touch and reach of light. Michaelmas: a sonnet for St. Michael the Archangel

Michaelmas: a sonnet for St. Michael the Archangel

St. Michael at Mont St. Michell -photo by Margot Krebs NealeThe end of September brings us to the feast of St. Michael and All Angels which is known as Michaelmas in England, and this first autumn …

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Kind words for my little book

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Finally getting around to reading this 2022 monograph from @malcolmguite . It is brilliant and insightful, offering simple and eloquent expression to the great Mystery that rests at the very core of language. It should be read not only by all poets, but by all Christians.

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On the one hand, after real effort with unusually achey limbs, I finally got the boat to her mooring. On the other hand…

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@KSPrior I too am pinned down and unable to get back to pen and paper

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Be wise In the trees’ long wisdom. Learn to share The secret of their patience. Pass the day In their green fastness and their quiet air.

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Huzzah! The author copies of my new @canterburypress book ‘Heaven in Ordinary’ have arrived. Always good to see it in actual existence

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So now he comes to us again Not as a Lord most high But weak and helpless as we are That we might hear him cry. And he who clothed us in our need Lies naked in the straw That we might wrap him in our rags Whom once we fled in awe.

A Tale of Two Gardens: a New Christmas Poem

Here is a new poem I wrote to go with a festival of lessons and carols which was part of a touring concert put on by Keith and Kristin Getty called ‘An Irish Christmas’. I was their gue…

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The service itself, with the poem will be broadcast on Christmas Eve

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Huzzah! the page proofs have arrived for my new poetry collection with @canterburypress now for some serious proof-reading!

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A sound behind her stirs A scatter of bright birdsong through the air. She turns, but cannot focus through her tears, Or recognise the Gardener standing there. A Sonnet for Easter Dawn via @malcolmguite

A Sonnet for Easter Dawn

The Lord is Risen! He is risen indeed Alleluia! Heres is an extra ‘fifteenth’ sonnet for Easter Morning, which I dedicate to my friend Mary who asked me to write it, and to the memory o…

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I'm a day late but here's a toast to #Tolkien on his Birthday and a reading of one of the great poems embedded in the Lord of the Rings #spellinthelibrary

A Tolkien poem to remember ‘The Professor’!

I read you Strider's poem about Beren and Luthien from the Two Towers, and (a day late) toast the Professor on his birthdayIf you like you can encourage me h...

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The fine portrait of my father Professor Harold Guite which used to hang in the Classics faculty ⁦ @McMasterU ⁩ and now hangs in our house. He was a great man #fathersday

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In case anyone needs this for a service tomorrow Our Mother-tongue Is Love; A Sonnet for Pentecost

Our Mother-tongue Is Love; A Sonnet for Pentecost

Here, once more is my sonnet for Pentecost. Drawn from ‘Sounding the Seasons’, my cycle of sonnets for the Church Year, this is a sonnet reflecting on and celebrating the them…

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It’s annual #NorfolkDay so here are a couple of pics of yours truly messing about in his boat on the Norfolk Broads

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It's my birthday today so for our #spellinthelibrary I thought I'd sing you this little song I wrote about growing old with my guitar!

Old And Worn: A Birthday Song!

In this birthday episode I play a little song about some things I have in common with my guitar!If you'd like to support this blog by popping round to this p...

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I find myself in the surreal world of floating guitars, tropical plants and artificial rivers that is the Opryland Resort Hotel

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In three in one and one in three, in rhyme, In music, in the whole creation story, In His own image, His imagination, The Triune Poet makes us for His glory, A Sonnet for Trinity Sunday

A Sonnet for Trinity Sunday

Returning for a moment to my cycle of sonnets for the Church Year, here is one for Trinity Sunday. By coming to us as the Son, revealing to us the Father, and sending to us the Spirit, Jesus reveal…

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I am continuing, each Sunday in Lent, to post the poems for the coming week, from My Word in the Wilderness anthology this first week in Lent introduces poems about pilgrimage Word in the Wilderness Week 1: The Pilgrimage Begins

Word in the Wilderness Week 1: The Pilgrimage Begins

I am continuing, each Sunday in Lent, to post the poems for the coming week, from My Word in the Wilderness anthology, for those who are following that. In this first week in Lent Word in the Wild…

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If you've been enjoying my poems on the psalms you might like to know that Ive just signed the contract with @canterburypress to gather them into a book. All is revealed in this #spellinthelibrary

Signing The Contract!

In this episode you arrive just as I’m signing the contract for 'David's Crown' my new book of poetry written in response to the psalms. Once it’s signed I t...

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What if not a word is lost, What if every word we cast Cruel, cunning, cold, accurst, Every word we cut and paste Echoes to us from the past Fares and finds us first and last Haunts and hunts us down? #parliament

‘Every Idle Word’: What if we had to own up to what we say?

The deeply disturbing exchanges in Parliament yesterday and particularly the Prime Minister’s dismissal of the real concern and fear of women MPs as ‘humbug’, together with his ow…

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Today we feel the wind beneath our wings Today the hidden fountain flows and plays Today the church draws breath at last and sings As every flame becomes a Tongue of praise. Our Mother-tongue Is Love; A Sonnet for Pentecost

Our Mother-tongue Is Love; A Sonnet for Pentecost

Here, once more is my sonnet for Pentecost. Drawn from ‘Sounding the Seasons’, my cycle of sonnets for the Church Year, this is a sonnet reflecting on and celebrating the them…

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I have a new book coming out at the end of month, a new collection of my little reflections for 'poet's corner, my column with @ChurchTimes

Sounding Heaven and Earth: A Poet’s Corner Collection

The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. His acute observati...

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#PalmSunday : A Sonnet Oh crowds of easy feelings make a start; They raise their hands, get caught up in the singing, And think the battle won. Too soon they’ll find The challenge, the reversal he is bringing Changes their tune.

Palm Sunday: A Sonnet

We come now, on Palm Sunday, to the beginning of Holy Week: a strange Palm Sunday, a strange Holy Week, in which we cannot make the outward and visible journeys and gestures, exchanges and gatherin…

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I am experimenting, for the first time with a youtube channel, so that I can invite you into my study and share some books, some poetry, some song. Here's a little glimpse of what I have in mind. A Spell in the Library via @YouTube

A Spell in the Library

I welcome you into my study, and we take a look at books on the shelves, pipes in the rack, and malts on the table, ready for a comfortable evening.

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Two Sonnets for the road to Emmaus

Christ appears to the Apostles on the road to Emmaus. Mosaic (6th century)As we walk together into the Easter season I thought I would post again two sonnets reflecting on the encounter two d…

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Extraordinary life-sized sculptures of Texas Longhorn cattle crossing a stream in downtown Dallas. As U2 once sang:‘outside it’s America’!

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Publication day has arrived and I have the book in my hands! #afterprayer

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But when these three arrive they bring us with them, Gentiles like us, their wisdom might be ours; A steady step that finds an inner rhythm, A pilgrim’s eye that sees beyond the stars. A Sonnet for #Epiphany

A Sonnet for Epiphany

these three arrive and bring us with themThe Feast of the Epiphany falls on the 6th of January. Epiphany celebrates the arrival of the three wise men at the manger in Bethlehem has a special m…

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And he who clothed us in our need Lies naked in the straw That we might wrap him in our rags Whom once we fled in awe. A Tale of Two Gardens: a New Christmas Poem via @malcolmguite

A Tale of Two Gardens: a New Christmas Poem

Here is a new poem I wrote to go with a festival of lessons and carols which was part of a touring concert put on by Keith and Kristin Getty called ‘An Irish Christmas’. I was their gue…

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We saw his light break through the cloud of glory Whilst we were rooted still in time and place As earth became a part of Heaven’s story And heaven opened to his human face. A Sonnet for #Ascension Day

A Sonnet for Ascension Day

Here is a sonnet for Ascension Day, the glorious finale of the Easter Season. I’m posting it a day in advance, in case anyone would like to use it in a service, either on the day itself…

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for tonight's #spellinthelibrary I read you GK Chesterton's wonderful poem 'The House of Christmas'

The House of Christmas

I read you GK Chesterton’s beautiful and almost forgotten Christmas PoemIf you wish, you can encourage me with coffee and Christmas cake! https://www.buymea...

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@jk_rowling @BloomsburyBooks Your poetic imagination enchanted me and my children and that enchantment remains as strong as ever

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As we approach Lent I have been asked if I would post again the poems, recordings and images which accompany my Lent anthology Word in the Wilderness, The Word in the Wilderness, a Journey through Lent

The Word in the Wilderness, a Journey through Lent

As we approach Lent I have been asked if I would post again the poems, recordings and images which accompany my Lent anthology Word in the Wilderness, and I am happy to do so as I know th…

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A thanks to those who stayed and did the raising, Who buckled down and did the work of two, Whom governments have mocked instead of praising, Who hid their heart-break and still struggled through, Mothering Sunday: a sonnet

Mothering Sunday: a sonnet

…for those who loved and laboured…Mothering Sunday can be both a joyful and a painfully poignant day. For many it is a day to grieve the loss of a mother, for others a time to yearn for…

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