More Birthday books my friends, courtesy of my Son2 & my sister Gillian. Absolutely delighted to be in possession of @malcolmguite.bsky.social Arthurian volume, since Arthuriana runs deep into my imagination. & the Gordon McMullan CUP study of the persecution of this beautiful bird

“That this book exists is a glorious miracle…buy this book immediately”
I’ll take that as a yes from The Times!

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner I AM back to my nest in North Walsham, back to my abandoned routines, back to my daily prayer walks in Sadlers Wood. I miss all these things sorely when I am abroad in a maze of lecture days, meetings and greetings, and then the anonymous placeles...

"On my return, I greet my routines like old friends newly appreciated, especially the walks."

#PoetsCorner Back in Sadlers Wood, @malcolmguite.bsky.social delights in gradual beginnings

#Poetry #JohnKeats

Delighted to have this appreciative notice of Galahad and the Grail in yesterday’s Times!

Glad it’s arrived

Thomas the Rhymer! YouTube video by Malcolm Guite

For tonight's Spell in the Library I recite Thomas the Rhymer, the old ballad about a poet and the Queen of Elfland! youtu.be/TEYM7cNUPZg

Pippin and Denethor! YouTube video by Malcolm Guite

For tonight's Spell in the library we dip into Tolkien for a moving scene between Pippin and Denethor youtu.be/non2P_3AWVY

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.

just a reminder that the Cambridge Launch of Galahad and the Grail is this Thursday from 6-7pm. They'll show the beautiful documentary and I'll be there to sign books www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/galahad-an...

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…

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

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Holy Saturday: Stations XIII and XIV Holy Saturday is a strange, still day, hanging in the balance between the suffering and sorrow of Good Friday and the Joy of Easter, life is paused, but also perhaps poised on the threshold of the …

The love that’s poured in silence at old graves
Renewing flowers, tending the bare earth,
Is never lost. In him all love is found
And sown with him, a seed in the rich ground.

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Good Friday: the first 12 Stations of the Cross image courtesy of my Anthology of poems for Leant and Holy Week The Word in the Wilderness, I set just one of my Stations of the cross sonnets for Good Friday, Station XII, but as this blog is not …

See, as they strip the robe from off his back
And spread his arms and nail them to the cross,
The dark nails pierce him and the sky turns black,
And love is firmly fastened onto loss.

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@malcolmguite.bsky.social - I just love your enthusiasm, passion, insight and flair! You inspire me.

Holy Week: Maundy Thursday So many gospel themes find their focus on Maundy Thursday, so many threads of connection flowing to and from this deep source of love and vision, in the foot washing, and in the last supper. The me…

And here He shows the full extent of love

To us whose love is always incomplete,

In vain we search the heavens high above,

The God of love is kneeling at our feet.

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Holy Week: Maundy Thursday So many gospel themes find their focus on Maundy Thursday, so many threads of connection flowing to and from this deep source of love and vision, in the foot washing, and in the last supper. The me…

Here is the source of every sacrament,

The all-transforming presence of the Lord,

Replenishing our every element

Remaking us in his creative Word.

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Holy Week, Wednesday The Anointing at Bethany John 12 1-8,  tells us of how Mary of Bethany anointed Jesus. I love this intense and beautiful moment in the Gospels, The God of the Cosmos enters as a vulnerable man into all the particular …

Come close with Mary, Martha , Lazarus
So close the candles stir with their soft breath
And kindle heart and soul to flame within us
Lit by these mysteries of life and death.

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Sir Gawain and the Tolkien Fireplace! YouTube video by Malcolm Guite

For tonight's Spell in the Library I read from Tolkien's translation of Gawain and the Green Knight in a very special location! youtu.be/d2NFe4Y4x68

Book review: Galahad and the Grail: Merlin’s Isle Volume 1 by Malcolm Guite THE campaign behind the National Year of Reading 2026 is a sign of our times, being an attempt to recover the joys of silent reading in a noisy world dominated by social media. Yet, not so long ago, most adults heard stories rather than read them....

"The simplicity of the ballad form and the steady pulse that drives the narrative forward perfectly complement the bareness of the Arthurian subject matter"

📚Michael Wheeler reviews Galahad and the Grail: Merlin’s Isle Volume 1 by @malcolmguite.bsky.social

#Galahad #Merlin #MalcolmGuite

Podcast: Malcolm Guite in conversation with Rachel Mann about Galahad and the Grail On this episode of the podcast, Malcolm Guite talks to Rachel Mann about his new book, Galahad and the Grail, part one of a planned four-volume poem sequence, Merlin’s Isle, a retelling of the tales of King Arthur. In a review of the book in the C...

Podcast: Rachel Mann talks to @malcolmguite.bsky.social about his new book, Galahad and the Grail: Merlin’s Isle Volume 1

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Holy Week, Monday: Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem As we contemplate Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, we contemplate weeping itself, the Rerum Lachrymae, as Virgil says, the tears of things : tears of frustration, tears of lament, and for so many who …

Jesus comes near and he beholds the city

And looks on us with tears in his eyes,

And wells of mercy, streams of love and pity

Flow from the fountain whence all things arise.

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Palm Sunday: A Sonnet image courtesy of Lancia SmithWe 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 ge…

Now to the gate of my Jerusalem,

The seething holy city of my heart,

The saviour comes. But will I welcome him?

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New Arthurian ballad cycle for modern Britain MALCOLM GUITE is an interviewer’s dream. Speaking from his book-lined study at home in Norfolk, he says he is still jet-lagged after recent speaking engagements in the United States. It is hard to believe. He is as excited, garrulous, and engaging...

“I want to recover the long story of a nation without bashing people.”

@malcolmguite.bsky.social talks to @revrachelmann.bsky.social about the launch of his four-book series that retells the tales of King Arthur

#Galahad #MalcolmGuite

On the feast of the Annunciation, A Quintet for Mary On March the 25th many churches across the world, Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican, keep the feast of the Annunciation, and though we can no longer keep the feast outwardly and visibly in our church…

She heard the voice;

The promise of His glory yet to be,

As time stood still for her to make a choice;

Gabriel knelt and not a feather stirred,

The Word himself was waiting on her word.

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Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner ONCE more, I find myself giving in to the temptation to doom-scroll: to check the news websites too frequently, to listen to the newscasts obsessively, and to oscillate unhealthily between over-stimulated anxiety and a kind of horrid fascination. ...

In a time of war @malcolmguite.bsky.social seeks the wisdom of C. S. Lewis

#MalcolmGuite #CSLewis

Sir Percivale and the serpent in South Carolina! YouTube video by Malcolm Guite

For tonight's Spell in the Library you find me with Stephen Crotts the illustrator of my Arthuriad! youtu.be/Trx5BWTwX7g

St. Patrick: A Sonnet Here is my sonnet for St. Patrick’s Day While Patrick is of course primarily associated with Ireland where he flourished as a missionary in the second half of the fifth century, he was not Ir…

Look back on us and bless us, Ireland’s son,

And plant the staff of prayer in all we do:

A gospel seed that flowers in belief,

A greening glory, coming into leaf.

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St. Patrick: A Sonnet Here is my sonnet for St. Patrick’s Day While Patrick is of course primarily associated with Ireland where he flourished as a missionary in the second half of the fifth century, he was not Ir…

Six years a slave, and then you slipped the yoke,

Till Christ recalled you, through your captors cries!

Patrick, you had the courage to turn back,

With open love to your old enemies,

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The dwarves’ song (and some smoke rings) YouTube video by Malcolm Guite

For tonight's Spell in the Library we attend an unexpected party and I sing you the song of the dwarves!
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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…

Now into Christ our mother church we bring them,
Who shares with them the birth-pangs of His Kingdom.

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