Malcolm Guite

Galahad and the Grail - Malcolm Guite, at Heffers Bookshop Join Malcolm Guite as he discusses the first volume of his new series 'Galahad and the Grail', an Arthurian retelling for the modern age.

happy to say that the Cambridge Launch of Galahad and the Grail, the first volume of my epic Merlin's Isle: an Arthuriad will be at Heffers bookshop 6-7pm on April 9th. Get tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/galahad-an...

YouTube video by Malcolm Guite The Faerie Queene: Rebecca Reynolds’s fabulous prose rendering!

For tonight's Spell in the Library I enthuse about Edmund Spenser and show you Rebecca Reynolds' beautiful three volume prose rendition of the Faerie Queene youtu.be/7iGdSXethEw

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner HOW hard it is, as one wearily enters one’s umpteenth Lent as an adult Christian, to make it real again, to make it new and fresh. And yet Lent itself is precisely about renewal, about rediscovering the deepest roots of one’s faith, finding again ...

"Lent is a good time to call the poets to our aid, especially in recovering a sense of the Kingdom that Christ proclaimed and that we seek to inhabit and embody."

@malcolmguite.bsky.social finds that, during #Lent, #poetry can bring a sense of renewal

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YouTube video by Malcolm Guite A crucial conversation in Bag End

For tonight's Spell in the Library we return to Bag End for that Crucial conversation after the long-expected party! youtu.be/K0hjZKatwaM

Shriven, Ashed, and ready for Action Today, on Shrove Tuesday, I am reposting the first of the weekly series in which you can hear me read aloud the poems I chose for my Lent Anthology The Word in the Wilderness.  In the book its…

The Fountain thirsts, the Bread is hungry here
The Light is dark, the Word without a voice.
When darkness speaks it seems so light and clear.
Now He must dare, with us, to make a choice.

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YouTube video by Malcolm Guite I unwrap the Rabbitroom deluxe edition of Galahad and the Grail!

At last I've got my hands on my author copies of the Rabbitroom edition of Galahad and the Grail. I couldn't be better pleased with the sheer quality of what they've done!
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A Sonnet on the Transfiguration I return to my series of sonnets ‘Sounding the Seasons’ of the Church’s year, to share a sonnet about the Transfiguration, when we remember how the disciples, even before they wen…

There were no angels full of eyes and wings
Just living glory full of truth and grace.
The Love that dances at the heart of things
Shone out upon us from a human face

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For that one moment, ‘in and out of time’,
On that one mountain where all moments meet,
The daily veil that covers the sublime
In darkling glass fell dazzled at his feet.

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YouTube video by Malcolm Guite The Grey Havens

For tonight's Spell in the Library you catch up with me in Kentucky where we read the last pages of The Lord of the Rings, perhaps one of the finest endings to any novel ever!
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A Sonnet for Candlemas Though the 12 days of Christmas ended with Twelfth Night and Epiphany, there is another sense in which this season, in which we reflect on the great mystery of God in Christ as an infant, continues…

For Candlemas still keeps His kindled light,
Against the dark our Saviour’s face is bright.

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Excellent. That’s just what it was written for

A Sonnet for Candlemas Though the 12 days of Christmas ended with Twelfth Night and Epiphany, there is another sense in which this season, in which we reflect on the great mystery of God in Christ as an infant, continues…

They come at last with us to Candlemas
And keep the day the prophecies came true
We glimpse with them, amidst our busyness,
The peace that Simeon and Anna knew.

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A Sonnet for Candlemas Though the 12 days of Christmas ended with Twelfth Night and Epiphany, there is another sense in which this season, in which we reflect on the great mystery of God in Christ as an infant, continues…

They came, as called, according to the Law.
Though they were poor and had to keep things simple,
They moved in grace, in quietness, in awe,
For God was coming with them to His temple.

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Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner Malcolm Guite finds common sense from Samuel Johnson for this social-media age

"Seeking some solace and escape from this public psychodrama, I opened The Rambler at random, and dipped into issue number 68 from 10 November 1750. . ."

#PoetsCorner @malcolmguite.bsky.social finds common sense from #SamuelJohnson for this social-media age

YouTube video by Malcolm Guite Unboxing the UK edition of Galahad and the Grail!

my author copies of the @canterburypress.bsky.social edition of Galahad and the Grail have arrived! Huzzah! Here's an 'unboxing' spell in the library youtu.be/JH6_kWwWyDU

Apostle! -a sonnet for St. Paul Conversion of Saint Paul Artist Unknown Niedersaechsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, GermanyThe 25th of January is the day the Church keeps the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. However often…

Strong in his weakness, joyful in his pains,
And bound by love, he freed us from our chains.

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Apostle! -a sonnet for St. Paul Conversion of Saint Paul Artist Unknown Niedersaechsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, GermanyThe 25th of January is the day the Church keeps the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. However often…

Thrown to the ground and raised at the same moment,
A prisoner who set his captors free,
A naked man with love his only garment,
A blinded man who helped the world to see

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Apostle! -a sonnet for St. Paul Conversion of Saint Paul Artist Unknown Niedersaechsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, GermanyThe 25th of January is the day the Church keeps the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. However often…

An enemy whom God has made a friend,
A righteous man discounting righteousness,
Last to believe and first for God to send,
He found the fountain in the wilderness.

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YouTube video by Malcolm Guite Two poems for Burns Night

here's a little something for Burns Night youtu.be/7IGTq0my0wE?...

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner The question ‘Why write poetry?’ is a crucial one, says Malcolm Guite

"They have to find a reason for writing which is intrinsic to the poetry itself, and does not depend on 'success' as the world measures it."

The question ‘Why write poetry?’ is a crucial one, says @malcolmguite.bsky.social

#poetry #poetscorner #MalcolmGuite

Newest arrival from my friend @malcolmguite.bsky.social
Reading the table of contents made me smile.

“I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing—I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in—I was naked, and you did not clothe Me.” 

Jesus said, whatever we have done to the least, we have also done to Him. Digest this poem, “The Holy Innocents,” by @malcolmguite.bsky.social

Good one!

YouTube video by Malcolm Guite The last procession of the Grail (and the audiobook!)

For tonight's Spell in the Library you find me in the midst of recording the audiobook for Galahad and the Grail! youtu.be/qwMrIQcpm0k

I’m afraid there’s not much more I can say. The best thing is to go on the college websites and read about their chaplaincies there. If you’re interested then look for advertisements in the church times. Hope that helps

YouTube video by Malcolm Guite Farewell to Theoden: another little dip into Tolkien

For tonight's Spell in the Library we return to Tolkien for a reading and reflection on one of the most poignant scenes in The Return of the King youtu.be/z2T5jMHT_yc

The First Sunday of Epiphany -Jesus’ Baptism The dove descends, the spirit soars and singsThe season of Epiphany is an invitation to reflect on the many little ‘epiphanies’, glimpses of how things really are, which are vouchsafed …

Beginning here we glimpse the Three-in-one;
The river runs, the clouds are torn apart,
The Father speaks, the Sprit and the Son
Reveal to us the single loving heart
That beats behind the being of all things

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Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner Writing sonnets on the Lord’s Prayer helped Malcolm Guite to see new things about it

Writing sonnets on the Lord’s Prayer helped @malcolmguite.bsky.social to see new things about it #poetscorner #poetry #lordsprayer

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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…

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

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