The beer was already pretty good but the backdrop makes it even better!
Malcolm Guite
26.4K posts
Malcolm Guite
@malcolmguite
priest, poet, rock'n'roller. I play in Mystery Train, and am a life fellow at glorious Girton College Cambridge. rabbitroom.com/merlinsisle
- You could have knocked me down with a featherI understand that the King asked for this poem by @malcolmguite to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas.
- Zoom meetings were just as dire in the Middle Ages ( you can tell from the expressions)
- Shiona Guite 1918-2020. My mother was the source and kindling of poetry in me. She died peacefully with her children at her side blessed on her way with poetry and prayer. May she rest in peace and rise in glory
- I only attended rather than taking the midnight but I believe my poetry stood proxy for me in other services #ClergyMaltClub
- Huzzah! Today I completed the first full draft of my epic cycle of poems on the Holy Grail - 19 ballads - 164 pages Time for a rest and a glass of single malt!
- This touch of golden beauty before breakfast will be helping me face the day
- Even in a random Chicago pipe and cigar shop I keep getting these little hints and reminders that there’s an epic poem I should be getting on with:-)
- Maggie and I are in Berne for our Ruby Wedding Anniversary which falls today
- As I pray for the queen in her grief I remember the day when Prince Phillip randomly handed me a ceremonial sword and said, with a wicked grin, ‘take this - you look as if you know what to do with it!’ I’ll tell the story in next week’s @ChurchTimes
- Years ago my mother gave me this beautiful plaque to adorn ‘The Temple of Peace’ -my writing hut. Today, on the first anniversary of her death, I affix it to the new Temple of Peace in the garden in North Walsham and remember her with immense gratitude
- My books are like buses: you wait ages for one and then two come along at the same time!
- May I say a big thank you to everyone who has sent me messages of condolence and comfort after my Mother’s death. It’s been very heartening. I will say more eventually, but here we are together on her 101st Birthday!
