The Poet's Ear for Gospel

Jamie Howison speaks with Malcolm Guite, a priest, chaplain to Girton College in Cambridge, theologian, musician and poet. The author of not only theological books but also numerous collections of poetry, Malcolm’s latest book is After Prayer: New sonnets and other poems, published in November 2019 by Canterbury Press. In an endorsement for the 2012 Sounding the Seasons collection, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams commented, “These pieces have the economy and pungency of all good sonnets, and again and again, offer deep resources for prayer and meditation to the reader,” to which the American poet Luci Shaw added, “Each of Malcolm Guite’s sonnets is like a Celtic knot, with threads of devotion and theology cunningly woven into shining emblems of truth and beauty.”

To find out more about Malcolm and his work, visit his website, where you will find recordings of him reading his poetry along with all sorts of other good things. You can also follow him on Facebook. 

Comment on this episode below. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and we invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help others join the conversation.

* * *

This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table, a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg. We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019.

Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in which we live.