Heaven in Ordinary
A Poet's Corner Collection
Published on 30. September 2020
192 pages
978-1-78622-264-0 (ISBN)
Description
Poet's Corner is Malcolm Guite's delectable column that appears on the back page of the Church Times each week. This second collection brings together more than seventy columns created from little glimpses and reflections from all corners of the country, the musings of a poet's mind, and the corners and alleyways of our literary heritage.
Malcolm's lucid, perceptive and imaginative columns follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for which he is so renowned, 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.
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Malcolm Guite is Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and a renowned poet and singer-songwriter. He lectures widely on poetry and theology in Britain and North America.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. A Handful of Dust
- 2. A Falling Leaf
- 3. Ordinary Saints
- 4. Crisis and Some Other Words
- 5. A Muddy Field
- 6. The Winter Moon
- 7. Swaddling Bands
- 8. Church Bells
- 9. Peace
- 10. Re-Entry
- 11. The Apostle and the Poet
- 12. In Southwark Cathedral
- 13. Snowfall
- 14. Cuthbert's Gospel
- 15. In the South Downs
- 16. 'Recover'd Greenness'
- 17. Gladness of the Best
- 18. Leafing through the Word-Wood
- 19. An Unexpected Arrival
- 20. Saying the Names
- 21. A Texan Interlude
- 22. 'Home Thoughts from Abroad'
- 23. Rolling Away the Stone
- 24. A House of Prayer
- 25. Going, Going?
- 26. From One May to Another
- 27. Touching the Hem
- 28. A Little Freshet
- 29. Tacking
- 30. Making Ripples
- 31. The Heart-Language of an Old Dial
- 32. A Bridge in the Mist
- 33. Tales from the Orchard
- 34. Holding an Old Briar Pipe
- 35. Motes
- 36. At Lee Abbey
- 37. A Pint in the Royal Oak
- 38. The Cataract of Lodore
- 39. Stargazing with the Poets
- 40. Spell
- 41. Orientation
- 42. Village Cricket
- 43. Caffeaum, Carmen
- 44. A Parish Outing
- 45. The Eye of the Beholder
- 46. Ode 'To Autumn'
- 47. Proofreading
- 48. On Being Called a Wordsmith
- 49. Is it Not Enough?
- 50. Apple Day and Evensong
- 51. A Kind of Tune
- 52. Dipping into Boswell
- 53. An Excursion
- 54. Old and Worn
- 55. A Winter Morning Reverie
- 56. An Advent Fantasy
- 57. Whitby
- 58. Heaven in Ordinary
- 59. A Cup of Kindness
- 60. In Rivey Wood
- 61. Time
- 62. In the Rabbit Room
- 63. Hunkering Down
- 64. A Message from Wuhan
- 65. Death Be Not Proud
