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- 160 pages
- English
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About this book
The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. His acute observations of the local, the everyday, moments of conversation and life's simple pleasures are doorways into a bigger reality of a world suffused with the meaning and beauty that lies beneath surface appearances. 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 the way to an enchanted world.
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Table of contents
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- 1. Little Steps
- 2. Born of Water
- 3. Multum in Parvo
- 4. A Poet for January
- 5. A Coral Rose
- 6. Mummers at Midnight
- 7. Home at Last
- 8. A Blessing on Ronald Blythe
- 9. Weather Words
- 10. Candlemas
- 11. Reading Milton
- 12. Love and the Martyr
- 13. Thank You for Waiting
- 14. Above and Beneath the Floorboards
- 15. Nashotah House
- 16. Remembering the Ash
- 17. Launch Out into the Deep
- 18. That Morning
- 19. Norfolk Pamments
- 20. Remembering Yeats in a Time of War
- 21. Merlinās Barrow
- 22. On the Thames
- 23. A Golden Era
- 24. Cherry Blossoms
- 25. Advice
- 26. A Minor Exorcism
- 27. A Breath of Heaven
- 28. At a Consecration
- 29. Musing on Psalm 84
- 30. In Kingās College Chapel
- 31. In Brontƫ Country
- 32. A Prayer Under the New Moon
- 33. Stevensonās Pipe
- 34. Ranworth Rose
- 35. Distant Jubilation
- 36. Waiting for the Tide
- 37. Trinity Sunday
- 38. A Little Reminder of Liberty
- 39. The Ancient Mariner
- 40. Mysterious Ascensions
- 41. The Right Word
- 42. Pentecost and Translation
- 43. The Kingfisher and the Heron
- 44. Returning to Ely
- 45. Remembering Shelley
- 46. A Choice of Signs
- 47. Hide and Seek
- 48. Poetry as a Way of Knowing
- 49. A Wake-Up Call
- 50. From a Celtic Roundhouse
- 51. Do Different
- 52. In Southwell Minster
- 53. Under the Mercy
- 54. Remembering Larkin
- 55. Moonlight and Sacrament
- 56. Seven Sunken Englands
- 57. Holding and Letting Go
- 58. A Coronation Psalm
- 59. At the Treacle Well
- 60. A Fish Out of Water?
- 61. On Lindisfarne
- 62. The Fascination with Whatās Difficult
- 63. A Few Gleanings
- 64. A Door In and Out
- 65. An Unveiling
- 66. With Alfred at Wantage
- 67. Steeped in Ireland
- 68. The Wind in the Trees
- 69. Rereading āEden Rockā
- 70. In the Woods
- 71. A Debt to David Scott
- 72. A Winterās Ale
- 73. A Scion of the Sheltering Tree
- 74. Rereading Keats
- 75. Christmas Lights
- 76. Ear Worms
- Acknowledgements and References