In Every Corner Sing: A Poet's Corner collection

By Malcolm Guite

Book Overview

Succeeding Ronald Blythe's Word From Wormingford, one of the most beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be a formidable challenge for any writer. Yet the new occupier of the back page slot of the Church Times, the priest-poet Malcolm Guite, immediately gained the affections and loyalty of a discerning audience accustomed to literary excellence. 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 a doorway in to a new and enchanted world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786220970
• ISBN13: 9781786220974
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Canterbury Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"