Heaven in Ordinary

<p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>Poet's Corner is Malcolm Guite's delectable column that appears on the back page of the Church Times each week. This second collection brings together more than seventy columns created from little glimpses and reflections from all corners of the country the musings of a poet's mind and the corners and alleyways of our literary heritage.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>Malcolm's lucid perceptive and imaginative columns follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for which he is so renowned 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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>They draw together everyday events and encounters landscape journeys poetry stories memory and a sense of the sacred fusing them to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the same time open a doorway into a new and enchanted world.</span></p>