Poetry

‘I recommend the work of Malcolm Guite, an English poet and Anglican priest who plumbs the depths of poetry and religious faith like a true metaphysical.’

Luci Shaw Author of Harvesting Fog -New Poems, Breath for the Bones; Imagination Art and Spirit

First a light villanelle that expresses what I think poetry is for:

On being told my poetry was found in  a broken photo-copier

My poetry is jamming your machine

It broke the photo-copier, I’m to blame,

With pictures copied from a world unseen.

My poem is in the works -I’m on the scene

We free my verse, and I confess my shame,

My poetry is jamming your machine.

Though you berate me with what might have been,

You stop to read the poem, just the same,

And pictures, copied from a world unseen,

Subvert the icons on your mental screen

And open windows with a whispered name;

My poetry is jamming your machine.

For chosen words can change the things they mean

And set the once-familiar world aflame

With pictures copied from a world unseen

The mental props give way, on which you lean

The world you see will never be the same,

My poetry is jamming your machine

With pictures copied from a world unseen

Stop Press! My Volume of Sonnets Sounding the Seasons is out in December with Canterbury Press. Launch December 5th 7:30pm at St. Edward’s Church. All Welcome.

Come to the Launch Dec. 5th 7:30pm St. Edwards Cambridge!

My poems have been published in Radix, Crux, The Temenos Acadamy Review and Poetry on the Lake. In addition two sonnet sequences have been published, one in the Mars Hill Review:

which can be purchased from the publishers here

and the other in The Church Times which can be read in their archive here

I have published two books of my own poetry, ‘Saying the Names’ and ‘The Magic Apple Tree’.
I also have a new volume in preparation, called ‘Light on the Water’.
Next to each book are links to a couple of poems from each book.
If you’d like to buy either or both of these volumes, click here

A book of my poetry

Saying the Names

Mozart at Greenbelt

The Magic Apple Tree

Is it a memory or another dream?

The Magic Apple Tree

Light On The Water

O Oriens

O Radix