George Herbert, Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England 1593-1633
Poetry and Prayer: Using George Herbert's rich poem 'Prayer' as a template, Malcolm Guite will talk about how poetry can enrich our own prayer life, responding with some of his own poems that have been inspired by Herbert's 'Prayer'. Join us for the finale of our Hidden Cathedral Poetry Celebration when we will gather in the Cathedral to listen to Malcolm Guite in a conversation he recorded for us this Eastertide with live conversation with Dean Harding and Evan Craig Reardon. Guite’s talk will also become available for viewing online.
Suggested Donation $20 for live screening ($10 for online access)
Malcolm Guite
Poet-Priest Malcolm Guite was Chaplain for 20 years at Girton College, Cambridge and remains Supernumerary Fellow. He teaches at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and lectures widely in England and North America on Theology and Literature and has published poetry, theology, and literary criticism and has worked as a librettist.
Malcolm has a particular interest in the imagination as a truth-bearing faculty and continues to reflect deeply on how poetry can stimulate and re-awaken our prayer life. He writes Poet’s Corner, a weekly column for the Church Times.
Malcolm enjoys sailing, walking, old books, live music, riding his Royal Enfield motorbike and all the varieties of the British countryside and weather. Malcolm is also part of the rock band Mystery Train, performing gigs at Grantchester, Cambridge and other places around Cambridgeshire.
Books
David’s Crown, Malcolm’s poetic response to the psalms. February 2021
The Quarantine Quatrains: A new Rubaiyat, with illustrations by Roger Wagner, a limited edition with proceeds going to the Care Workers Charity. August 2020
After Prayer, Malcolm’s poetic response to George Herbert’s poem Prayer. 2019
In Every Corner Sing, Heaven in Ordinary, anthologies of Malcolm’s Church Times Poet’s Corner column. 2019; 2020
Mariner, a spiritual biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 2017
Love, Remember, 40 poems of loss, lament and hope. 2017
Parable and Paradox, sonnets on the sayings of Jesus and other collected poems. 2016
Waiting on the Word, a poetry anthology for Advent. 2015
The Word in the Wilderness, a poetry anthology for Lent. 2014
The Singing Bowl, collected poems. 2013
Sounding the Season, seventy sonnets for the Christian year. 2012
Theology and the Poetic Imagination. 2010
Faith Hope and Poetry. 2006