Malcolm Guite's "A Sonnet for Nicholas Ferrar"

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🗓️ 6 December 2021

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Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (/ɡaɪt/; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, and British poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and associate chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge. On several occasions, he has taught as visiting faculty at several colleges and universities in England and North America.

Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful".[1] Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band "Mystery Train".[2]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Daily Poem. I'm Heidi White and today is Monday, December 6th.
0:07.0	Today's a very special day here at The Daily Poem because it is David Kern's birthday.
0:13.8	So if you know and love David, if you appreciate his work here at The Daily Poem, his other podcasts at Goldberry Studios, and his work at the bookstore
0:23.7	at Goldberry Books, then give him a shout out on social media. He's on Instagram,
0:30.2	Facebook, and Twitter. Let him know that you appreciate him and are grateful for his work.
0:35.2	He's done a lot for American letters and he deserves to be
0:37.9	celebrated today. Today is also St. Nicholas Day, if you're the kind of person who pays
0:43.3	attention to these kinds of things. And I looked all over to find a literary poem to celebrate
0:49.5	St. Nicholas for today's daily poem. And I could not find a thing, nothing. So if you know of a great poem
0:57.8	that should be read on St. Nicholas Day, please send it my way here at the Daily Poem. Or if you are a
1:04.2	poet, I extend to you a challenge. Write us a great literary poem in honor of St. Nicholas Day and
1:10.3	perhaps I'll read it next year on the daily poem.
1:13.2	And if you have already written such a poem and it's readily available and I wasn't able to find it, please forgive me.
1:19.3	But I did find a poem by Malcolm Gait about a different St. Nicholas.
1:27.1	Malcolm Gite is an English poet, singer-songwriter,
1:30.3	Anglican priest, and academic. He was born in 1957, and he is still writing prolifically today,
1:38.0	poems from within the church and for the church. And this is a sonnet for Nicholas Farrar. And this is how it goes.
1:48.2	You died the hour you used to rise for prayer in that rich hush beneath all other sounds. You rose at
1:56.9	one and took the midnight air, rising and falling on the wings and rounds of psalms and
2:03.9	silence. The December stars shine clear above the Giddings, promised light for those who dwell in
2:12.2	darkness. Morning stirs the household. From the folds of sleep, the late risers wake to find you gone,
2:22.2	and pray through pain and grief to bless your journey home. Those last glad steps in the right
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