Sounding Heaven and Earth

<p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The back page column of the Church Times famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. His acute observations of the local the everyday moments of conversation and life's simple pleasures are doorways into a bigger reality of a world suffused with the meaning and beauty that lies beneath surface appearances. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>His lucid perceptive and imaginative musings follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for which he is so renowned. In his own words he treats these 500 word essays 'a little in the spirit of the sonnet 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: rgba(33 37 41 1)>These draw together everyday events and encounters landscape journeys poetry stories memory and a sense of the sacred and fuses them to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the same time opens the way to an enchanted world.</span></p>