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Milton and the Beowulf poet have more staying power but I still enjoy my annual visit to the top of ‘British and Irish Poetry

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Today's Spell in the Library features Tennyson's classic poem Ulysses from a rare 1859 edition! youtu.be/UHYGGVaD6v0

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Here’s a preliminary post inviting you to join with me in a journey through Lent with my Lent Anthology The Word in the Wilderness. Each week you’ll get a post in which you can hear me reading each of the daily poems for that week malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/t...

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Brilliant to hear so many great speakers at the Faith & Literature festival & spend far more than planned on books! A real joy to hear @malcolmguite.bsky.social speaking on his new Arthurian project especially as his thinking on the Christian Imagination shaped one of the sections of my MA thesis.

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Your manuscript, entrusted to a friend, Has been entrusted now to every soul, We make a new beginning in your end And find your broken heart has made us whole. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/a...

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Gentle exemplar, help us in our trials, With all that passed between you and your Lord, That intimate exchange of frowns and smiles Which chronicled your love-match with the Word. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/a...

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in this new Spell in the Library I read and reflect on a conversation between Gandalf and Frodo which seems more pertinent than ever to the times through which we are living youtu.be/HtX3TZpgFwM

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For Herbert, prayer is a kind of transposition to a new key, writes @malcolmguite.bsky.social

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Here's the latest Spell in the Library with a little essay of mine about visiting Merlin's Barrow! youtu.be/7Mc3cOWapVs

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Why should this martyr be the saint of love? A quiet man of unexpected courage, A celibate who celebrated marriage, An ageing priest with nothing left to prove... malcolmguite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...

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Here's the latest Spell in the Library on Tolkien's poem Mythopoeia youtu.be/nvWMQ32gmPU

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Poet’s Corner @malcolmguite.bsky.social worships in a cathedral in which the new US President sat a fortnight before

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For this Spell in the Library you find me with the great mythologist and storyteller Dr Martin Shaw! With Martin Shaw! youtu.be/J1oq4b9muwE

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This was fun: youtu.be/9Q22wg9_54g?...

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For Candlemas still keeps His kindled light, Against the dark our Saviour’s face is bright malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/a...

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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. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/a...

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Amidst the outer court’s commercial bustle They’d waited hours, enduring shouts and shoves, Buyers and sellers, sensing one more hustle, Had made a killing on the two young doves. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/a...

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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... malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/a...

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Hi everyone, here's my latest Spell in the Library! youtu.be/g_gprMrYosA

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Free tickets now available for my Cambridge lecture on William Blake on Feb 21st. All welcome! www.tickettailor.com/events/poetr...

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We talk about: Tolkien, Lewis, Barfield, George MacDonald, Coleridge, Richard Dawkins, Jesus, Augustine — poetry, modernism, enchantment, philology, meaning, imagination, mental health, etc. I never get tired of learning from @malcolmguite.bsky.social Watch here:

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It was an absolute treasure to sit down with @malcolmguite.bsky.social to talk about Tolkien, imagination and enchantment. You don't want to miss this - it will open your eyes to see the world differently! Watch the conversation here: youtu.be/qgM1U7cyqbY

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The hymn writer Dave Bilbrough has woven a poem of mine into one of his beautiful songs youtu.be/_sKPBVeGk80?...

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I very much enjoyed this conversation with Iain McGilchrist and Roger Wagner about our mutual passion for William Blake! youtu.be/gFi1cPKZdTg?...

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Here's a Spell in the Library with another little taster of my forthcoming Arthuriad! youtu.be/wEAXTBiMVBQ

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“All great art is a bridge with one foot in the world of comprehension—the visible, the earth—and the other foot in the realm of apprehension—the invisible, heaven.” — @malcolmguite.bsky.social youtu.be/bMh_EoVd_0k?...

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Here’s the reflection on the Nicene Creed i put together with my friend Susanna www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This is on right now. & it is as you would expect from BBCRadio4 & the great @malcolmguite.bsky.social absolutely inspiring #Nicea1700 #Nicea325 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Here’s an epiphany to have and hold, A truth that you can taste upon the tongue, No distant shrines and canopies of gold Or ladders to be clambered rung by rung, An Epiphany at Cana malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/a...

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I am looking forward to taking part in this poetry reading in Oxford on 20th February, and I'm happy to say it's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-in-t...

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Hello Bluesky! Have taken refuge here from X and hope that at least some of my followers will find me. As ever it will be poetry, spells in the library, a kindling of the imagination and a re-enchantment of nature!

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