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.

Malcolm Guite

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Preface

1 Eternity in Huntingdon

2 Upstream

3 A Mystery Cat

4 Tuning Up

5 Mistaken Identity

6 Rage and Beauty

7 In a Railway Carriage

8 In the Margins

9 On the Lady Bridge

10 Two Clocks

11 The Threshold of the New

12 Transfiguration

13 A Childhood Memory?

14 A Dry-Stone Wall

15 Liturgical Moments

16 And Did Those Feet?

17 Gazing at Hodge

18 Septembral

19 The Namer and the Named

20 House For Duty

21 A Flock of Words

22 Autumn Leaves

23 An Emblem

24 Gratitude

25 Hallowe’en

26 A Kingfisher

27 Health and Safety

28 Raindrop

29 Can I Get There by Candlelight?

30 The Full English

31 Things Old and New

32 In a Country Churchyard

33 The Return of the Native

34 My Books

35 On Poetry and Cheese

36 Homing

37 God Speed the Plough

38 A Bench in Aldeburgh

39 A Winter Ale Festival

40 A Hidden Valley

41 A Serendipitous Island

42 Finding the Source

43 A Doorkeeper

44 Learning Their Letters

45 Our Time to Turn

46 The Pocket Park

47 Some Time in York

48 Early Rising

49 On Doing Nothing After Easter

50 Found Poetry

51 Bluebells

52 Top Dead Centre

53 Lists and Litanies

54 Happiness

55 A Faded Photograph

56 Coleridge in Highgate

57 Willow

58 Church Fetes

59 Making Hay

60 The Temple of Peace

61 A Little Pamphlet

62 Procrastination

63 An Icon

64 A New Word

65 An Old Bridge

66 Shed-Fever

67 An Apology For Idlers

68 The Oldest Door

69 The Green Man

70 Emily Dickinson’s Desk

71 Smoke Rings

72 A Lens

73 St. Fillan’s Cave

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• The first collection of Malcolm Guite's widely acclaimed columns on the back page of the Church Times. • Postings of Poet's Corner columns on social media have resulted in record traffic levels to the Church Times website. • Malcolm Guite is one of the outstanding spiritual voices in the Church of England today – a George Herbert for our own times. His poetry books have sold over 20,000 copies.

Succeeding Ronald Blythe's Word From Wormingford, one of the most beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be a formidable challenge for any writer. Yet the new occupier of the back page slot of the Church Times, the priest-poet Malcolm Guite, immediately gained the affections and loyalty of a discerning audience accustomed to literary excellence. His lucid, perceptive and imaginative musings follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for which he is so renowned. In his own words, he treats these 500 word essays 'a little in the spirit of the sonnet, with a sense of development, of a 'turn' or volta part way through, and a sense that the end revisits and re-reads the opening'. These draw together everyday events and encounters, landscape, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred, and fuses them to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the same time opens a doorway in to a new and enchanted world.

In Every Corner Sing

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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.

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