The interplay between faith and poetry is central to this work, as Malcom Guite explores how his Christian beliefs shape his poetic expression. Through personal anecdotes and a selection of classic and original poems, he illustrates the profound connection between the poetic imagination and spiritual understanding, revealing how each informs and enriches the other.
Exploring the poetic imagination, this book highlights its role in enhancing our understanding of reality and contemporary issues. Through critical analyses of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to today, Malcolm Guite emphasizes poetry's contribution to religious knowledge and theology. Readers will gain fresh insights and renewed enthusiasm for poetry, encouraging them to incorporate imaginative approaches into their academic and intellectual endeavors.
Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.
This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. It includes a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert's exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', as well as forty five more widely ranging new poems.
A corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible's 150 psalms.
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent.
'A splendid celebration of the grizzled figure who stoppeth one of three and the tragic artist who created him' - The Times
Exploring the rich paradoxes of Advent, this book emphasizes the significance of waiting and anticipation during the season. It highlights how poetry can deepen our understanding of themes such as darkness and light, emptiness and fulfillment, and the interplay between the ancient and the contemporary. Through poetic reflections, readers are invited to embrace the complexities of this spiritual time, finding beauty and meaning in the act of waiting.
The first collection of Malcolm Guite's widely acclaimed columns on the back page of the Church Times. His perceptive musings draw together everyday events and encounters, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred to open a door into a new and enchanted world.
Whether through suspicion or ignorance, serious consideration of what Mary can teach us has been lacking in large swathes of the church for some time. Drawing on careful biblical exegesis, church history and ecumenical thinking, this book suggests how a serious understanding of Mary might influence our ethical thought, and considers some of the key theological tensions at the heart of the church's engagement with Mary.