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Malcolm Guite

English - Poetry, Music, Religion
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Malcolm Guite · 16m ago

A Sonnet for Pentecost

Continuing in my cycle of sonnets for the Church Year this is a sonnet reflecting on and celebrating the themes and readings of Pentecost. Throughout the cycle, and more widely I have been reflecting on the traditional ‘four elements’ of earth, air, water and fire, considering how each of them expre
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Malcolm Guite · 1W ago

A Sonnet for Ascension Day

The experience of writing Sonnets for Advent and for The Stations of the Cross has encouraged me to go a little further and to write a more extended sequence that will touch on the major moments and turning points of … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 2W ago

Kindling the Imagination An interview about Poetry and Truth

A while back I agreed to do an extended interview for the Photographer Lancia Smith’s excellent Web site The True the Good and the Beautiful, which she was going to run alongside some superb photographs she had taken at this … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 2W ago

Where to find the Treasure, and A Piece of Chalk!

I promised last time to tell you a little more about how I came upon these treasures of Chestertoniana,and what is to become of them now. The treasures are the gift of the wonderful collector and enthusiast in whose house … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 3W ago

GK Chesterton; Natural-Born Blogger!

If GK Chesterton had been born in my generation he would have been a natural-born blogger! As it is, he invented blogging before his time and used the best technology availabe to get his brief, pithy, brilliant posts out there. … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 1M ago

A Sonnet for St. Mark

Today is St. Mark’s day and so  publish my sonnet on St. Mark’s Gospel, one of a set of four on each of the four evangelists. For each of these sonnets I have meditated on the way the traditional asociation … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 1M ago

Hatley St. George; a poem for St. George’s Day

For St. George’s Day I thought I would re-post this poem about  Hatley St. George, a little mediaeval church in the village of the same name, not far from here.  Though the church goes back to the fourteenth century , … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 1M ago

Thank God for awkward questions!

Yesterday, on the first Sunday after Easter we had the reading from St. John’s Gospel, about how ‘doubting’ Thomas met the risen Lord and was invited to touch his wounds. Well thank goodness for Thomas, the one disciple who had … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 1M ago

Christ Across Five Frontiers; All Five Talks.

During the course of Lent I gave a series of five lectures at St. Edwards called ‘Christ Across Five Frontiers; A Poetic Journey’ . Some of my readers and subscribers have asked how to get hold of them, so here … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Guite · 1M ago

Easter Dawn

Heres is an unexpected extra fifteenth sonnet for Easter Morning, which I dedicate to my friend Mary who asked me to write it, and to the memory of her husband Gavin. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. … Continue reading →
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