The world is enchanted and filled with meaning - and few people have helped me see this in a deeper way than @malcolmguite.bsky.social ! This was one of my favorite conversations; filled with thoughts on Tolkien, Lewis and this wild life. Enjoy!

For tonight's Spell in the Library you find me reading George Herbert in Missouri! youtu.be/trDX1-0ekTE

The dark is bright With quiet lives and steady lights undimmed, The witness of the ones we shunned and shamed. Plain in our sight and far beyond our seeing He weaves them with us in the web of being malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/a...

Though Satan breaks our dark glass into shards Each shard still shines with Christ’s reflected light, It glances from the eyes, kindles the words Of all his unknown saints. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/a...

For tonight's Spell in the Library you find me in Winnipeg dipping into Tolkien's "Leaf by Niggle"! youtu.be/dyeydCpBp88

Today’s Soell in the Library is a magic encounter in a bookshop in Tennessee Two new pipes and a touch of Galahad in Tennessee! youtu.be/WJEnpJueEYs

Luke is the living pillar of our healing, A lowly ox, the servant of the four, We turn his page to find his face revealing The wonder, and the welcome of the poor. https: malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/a-sonnet-for-st-lukes-day-8/

His gospel is itself a living creature A ground and glory round the throne of God, Where earth and heaven breathe through human nature And One upon the throne sees it is good. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/a...

@malcolmguite.bsky.social youtu.be/KBsKDqZh5nA?... - Malcolm Guite I can vividly remember being read The Hobbit in Junior School; I think it contributed to my fertile imagination. This is a superb reading of a chunk by Malcolm Guite.

Poet's Corner @malcolmguite.bsky.social and a friend find common ground in their appreciation of the Psalter

I recently did a podcast for the Canadian Bible Society. Here's the link biblesociety.ca/scriptureunt...

For tonight's spell in the Library I read from Balke's Songs of Innocence and Experience in the King's School Library in Ely youtu.be/AYQBUI1FEvs

Francis rebuild my church which, as you see Is falling into ruin.’ From the cross Your saviour spoke to you and speaks to us Again through you. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/a...

Poet's Corner @malcolmguite.bsky.social and his friends find hospitality on St Aldhelm’s Way #pilgrimage

Archangel bring your balance, help me turn Upon this turning world with you and dance In the Great Dance. Draw near, help me discern, And trace the hidden grace in change and chance. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/m...

Michaelmas gales assail the waning year, And Michael’s scale is true, his blade is bright. He strips dead leaves; and leaves the living clear To flourish in the touch and reach of light. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/m...

In today’s Spell in the Library you find me happily brandishing the galley proofs/advance reader copy of Galahad and the Grail! The Advance Reader Copy of Galahad arrives! youtu.be/Q1hRHreUCGg

Poet's Corner @malcolmguite.bsky.social sees a comic opera in the ruins of an old priory church

A farmer’s woes bring to @malcolmguite.bsky.social’s mind some prescient #Shakespeare

Turns out my new book is a bit bigger than I expected!

The Best Morning Prayer Ever: “Just Begin.” “Not to be worked for, nor another task, But love that’s lavished on us, full and free, Course after course of hospitality… He paid the price before we reached the inn. And all he asks of us is to begin.” -- @malcolmguite.bsky.social "After Prayer"

For tonight's Spell in the Library I read you an autumnal poem of my own! youtu.be/HdO31JoWuJU

Poet's Corner @malcolmguite.bsky.social, like T. S. Eliot, savours the musical effects of words

if you're in Wales in October you might enjoy this.

looking forward to these Canadian gigs with Steve Bell! youtu.be/VI6vM0BDnRQ?...

For tonight's Spell in the Library I read you Keats's Ode to Autumn, surely one of the most perfect poems ever written! youtu.be/OJtflrF3mnA

Poet's Corner @malcolmguite.bsky.social attends one of north Norfolk’s celebrated agricultural shows

for tonight's Spell in the Library we visit the Houses of Healing in Tolkien's Return of the King youtu.be/k3ZdMnw-L4E

For this evening’s Spell in the Library I read you a new section of my ongoing Arthurian poetry Lancelot and the Chapel Perilous youtu.be/SUSUxM6-jxw

for tonight's Spell in the Library I share with you some of the material I'm working on for the event on the poetry of the psalms which I'll be speaking at in York on Oct.2nd youtu.be/BVjShzpEwQk

@malcolmguite.bsky.social‬ enjoys the blessings of a little idleness — holy leisure — in August

for tonight's Spell in the Library we eavesdrop on a conversation with Gandalf that changed Frodo's life! youtu.be/bddT0mT7p84

very much looking forward to speaking in York, alongside Artist Roger Wagner for this day on the psalms www.churchtimes.co.uk/finding-insp...

For that one moment, ‘in and out of time’, On that one mountain where all moments meet, The daily veil that covers the sublime In darkling glass fell dazzled at his feet. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...

”…the Blakean insights that Vernon sets out so lucidly in this book are prophetic for our own age… he unveils the deeper powers at work and shows us a way out.” Thanks @malcolmguite.bsky.social for a great review @churchtimes.bsky.social www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

For tonight's Spell in the library we return to Tolkien and savour a famous encounter in the eaves of Fanghorn forest! youtu.be/ssYkd5zvAt4

for tonight's Spell in the Library you find me in Northern Ireland reading from CS Lewis's The Silver Chair! youtu.be/3JruNrpX8Ao

And quickened you with love’s own sway and swing, As light and lovely as the news you bring. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/m...

a hidden door, Into a garden where the fountain sealed, Could flow at last for him in healing tears, Till, in another garden, he revealed The perfect Love that cast out all your fears, malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/m...

But one man set you free and took your part One man knew and loved you to the core The broken alabaster of your heart Revealed to Him alone a hidden door, malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/m...

Men called you light so as to load you down, And burden you with their own weight of sin, A woman forced to cover and contain Those seven devils sent by Everyman. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/m...

tonight's Spell in the Library comes from Tintagel and includes the cover reveal for Galahad and the Grail the first volume of my forthcoming Arthurian epic youtu.be/zu5RBJ4Dj5s

@malcolmguite.bsky.social's Arthurian epic is available for preorder. Worth checking out! t.co/XQBll2EBC1

What does it mean to say that humans are made in the image of God, asks @malcolmguite.bsky.social‬

To St Peter’s Hoveton to mark its 400th anniversary and dedicate its impressive new thatched roof (interestingly made from Ukrainian rather than Norfolk reed). Very moved by @malcolmguite.bsky.social sonnet ‘St Peter’ ending “that each denial is undone by love”.

Poet's Corner @malcolmguite.bsky.social‬ goes in search of two holy wells in Northumberland

You sought to start a simple school of prayer, A modest, gentle, moderate attempt, With nothing made too harsh or hard to bear, No treating or retreating with contempt… malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/a...

“We do not know… how can we know the way?” Courageous master of the awkward question, You spoke the words the others dared not say And cut through their evasion and abstraction. malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/t...

Join us this Saturday, July 5th, for a discussion with Plough contributors @malcolmguite.bsky.social and John Swinton to discuss our Summer issue. We’ll be livestreaming the event, or you can join us in person at King's College London Strand Campus. RSVP here: