Tag Archives: Malcolm Guite

St. Peter, Master of Misunderstanding

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2023

Malcolm Guite captures the beauty of St. Peter’s impulsive behavior.

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The Trinity: Beyond, Beside Us, and Within

By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2023

Maybe, to understand the Trinity, we need poets like Malcolm Guite.

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Reading Proust as Lenten Observance

By Robin Bates | Published: February 25, 2023

For Lent this year, I am taking on Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” I hope to gain new insight into the nature of fictional engagement.

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Lifting for a Little While the Veil

By Robin Bates | Published: January 28, 2023

Micah’s instructions and Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount” function themselves as poems. Guite has his own poem about Jesus’s sermon.

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Jesus as Refugee

By Robin Bates | Published: December 22, 2022

Two poems that focus on Jesus as a refugee: Scott Bates’s “Witness” and Malcolm Guite’s “Refugee.”

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He Beholds the City with Tears in His Eyes

By Robin Bates | Published: March 12, 2022

Today’s Gospel reading can be applied to Russia’s attack on Ukrainian cities. So can this Malcolm Guite poem.

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In the Desert Darkness One Has Found Me

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2020

Malcolm Guite’s sonnet on Jacob and the Angel mentions the love the simultaneously wounds and heals.

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Every Flame Becomes a Tongue of Praise

By Robin Bates | Published: May 30, 2020

Malcolm Guite has a powerful sonnet capturing the pentecostal moment.

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Standing Beside Us, Even As We Grieve

By Robin Bates | Published: November 2, 2019

In a sonnet written for All Souls’ Day, Malcolm Guite writes that, when we grieve, we are supported by all who have passed on, who reflect Christ’s light.

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