Books written by Malcolm Guite

Reflections for Daily Prayer: Advent 2019 to Christ the King 2020

This volume covers the church year 2019/2020.
In Every Corner Sing: A Poet's Corner collection

This was no ordinary cat; for the statue commemorated Samuel Johnson's cat, Hodge, whom Doctor Johnson famously described as 'a very fine cat indeed', for whose sake he used to hasten to Billingsgate market to buy oysters, ...
Heaven in Ordinary: A Poet's Corner Collection

Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. makes wonderful bedside reading. It has the great advantage that you can open it anywhere, take up the narrative and be fed, sustained, entertained and, almost always, comforted.
Reflections on the Psalms

As the deer longs for the water brooks, so longs my soul for you, O God. 'Why have you forgotten me?' (v.11) We tend to romanticize the Psalms. Several times this one has been turned into a hymn about contented countryside animals.
Reflections for Lent 2015

Are you looking for material to study in group during Lent? Reflections for Lent contains six weeks of notes taken from the annual edition of Reflections, covering Ash Wednesday to Easter Saturday.
Reflections for Daily Prayer: Advent 2017 to Christ the King 2018

This volume covers the church year 2017/2018.
Reflections for Daily Prayer: Advent 2014 to Christ the King 2015

This volume covers the church year 2014/2015.
Reflections for Sundays, Year A

Reflections for Daily Prayer has nourished thousands of Christians for a decade with its inspiring and informed weekday Bible reflections.
Reflections for Daily Prayer: Advent 2015 to Christ the King 2016

In addition, the book includes a simple order for morning and night prayer, an introduction to the practice of daily prayer by Bishop John Pritchard and a guide to reading the Bible reflectively by Bishop Stephen Cottrell.
Word in the Wilderness: A poem a day for Lent and Easter

For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive reflections on it.
Mariner: A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" On this theological voyage, Guite draws out the continuing relevance of this work and the ability of poetry to communicate the truths of humanity's fallenness, our need for grace, and the possibility of redemption.
The Word Within the Words

In The Word within the Words, Malcom Guite shows how his Christian faith informs and underpins his poetry and, in turn, how poetry itself and, more widely, the poetic imagination help him understand and interpret his faith.
My Theology: The Word Within the Words

My Theology:The world's leading Christian thinkers explain some of the principal tenets of their theological beliefs.The Word within the words is a Poet's Credo, in which Malcolm Guite describes how his Christian faith informs and underpins ...
Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination

Readers of this book will return to their reading of poetry equipped with new insights and enthusiasm and will be challenged to integrate imaginative ways of knowing into their other academic and intellectual pursuits.
Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination

Heaney receives these words as the gift of freedom and possibility , and the revelation is accompanied by the icon of the raindrop : It was as if I had stepped free into space Alone with nothing that I had not known Already .
Sounding the Seasons: 70 Sonnets for the Christian Year

Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms

It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible’s 150 psalms as they appear in William Coverdale’s timeless translation.
Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, shaped and structured around the story he himself tells in his most famous poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.
Parable and Paradox: Sonnets on the sayings of Jesus and other poems

In addition this collection includes: •A sequence of seven sonnets on 'The Wilderness', exploring mysterious stories of divine encounter such as Jacob’s wrestling with the angel. •Poetic reflections on music, hospitality and ecology. ...
After Prayer: New sonnets and other poems

At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed ...