Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter,

Anglican priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particul ...

, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British

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parents, Guite earned degrees from

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and

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universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of

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C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge Univers ...

Owen Barfield Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November 1898 – 14 December 1997) was a British philosopher, author, poet, critic, and member of the Inklings. Life Barfield was born in London, to Elizabeth (née Shoults; 1860–1940) and Arthur Edward Barfield (1864 ...

, and British poets such as

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. He was a

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and

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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

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. Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two

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s and three full-length

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, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are

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s, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band "Mystery Train".Mystery Train
(official website). Retrieved 20 July 2015.

Early life and education

Guite was born on 12 November 1957 in

Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me ...

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, in Nigeria. At birth, he was given the first name ''Ayodeji'' which is a

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tribal name meaning "the second joy".Nathaniel Darling
Interview: Reverend Dr Malcolm Guite, Girton
''The Cambridge Student'' (25 April 2014). Retrieved 20 July 2015.Lancia E. Smith
Interview Series with Malcolm Guite, Part 1
''Cultivating The Good, The True, & the Beautiful'' (1 May 2012). Retrieved 19 July 2015. According to Guite, the name was suggested to his mother by the Yoruba nurse who attended to her through a difficult

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and whom Guite states probably saved both his and his mother's life. His parents were British expatriates living in Nigeria where his father was a

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who travelled around the country evangelising. His father also taught as lecturer in

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at the

University of Ibadan The University of Ibadan (UI) is a public research university in Ibadan, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1948 as University College Ibadan, one of many colleges within the University of London. It became an independent university in 196 ...

. According to Guite, after ten years in Nigeria, his father "ever the wanderer, went and got a job in Canada, where we then moved". Although his family had settled in Canada, his parents thought he was losing his British identity and decided to enrol him in boarding school in England where he spent his teenage years. He attended the

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. He would describe the boarding school experience as terrible, an "atmosphere of guilt, oppression and general alienation" where he strayed from his childhood Christian faith. In its place, Guite embraced a "rational scientific materialism" coloured by

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and the

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and

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

. During these years, Guite states that he was not sure whether he belonged in England or in Canada, having questions about how he identified himself. In the end, however, he decided that he belonged in England after winning a scholarship to

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to read English and after discovering "

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"—something he says "they don't have properly in Canada at all". Guite adds that after these two events he "fell in love with Cambridge, and I've never quite escaped its gravitational pull". Guite returned gradually to his Christian faith, first under the influence of beauty in the poetry of

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and

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achie ...

and visits to historical sites that had deep religious significance—

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, Glen Colmcille, and Scotland's

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. After delving into the works of Keats and Shelley, Guite decided to begin writing poetry. In his final year of undergraduate study, Guite states that he had a religious experience writing a literary paper analysing the

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that he likened to a conversion experience. He chose to be confirmed in the

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shortly after. Guite graduated from Cambridge with a

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(BA)—later automatically upgraded to

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(MA (Cantab))—in

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in 1980.Girton College, University of Cambridge
Malcolm Guite, Chaplain
(faculty page). Retrieved 19 July 2015. After graduating, Guite taught for several years as a secondary school teacher before deciding to seek a doctoral degree, and obtained his

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(PhD) from

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degree in 1993. His doctoral dissertation focused on "the centrality of memory as a theme in the sermons and meditations of

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and

John Donne John Donne ( ; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a clergy, cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's ...

and to explore the extent of their influence on the treatment of memory in

T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National B ...

s poetry".Ayodeji Malcolm Guite,
The art of memory and the art of salvation : a study with reference to the works of Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne and T.S.Elliot
' (sic) (Durham theses, Durham University, 1993), quote from "Abstract". While researching the topic of his dissertation, in considering the struggles of John Donne with a similar question in the early seventeenth-century, Guite began to wonder if God was calling him too to be a priest.

Career

Guite was ordained as a priest in the

in 1991. As a deacon he was first assigned to a

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on "the Oxmoor estate in

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".Jules Evans
Malcolm Guite on poetry as a door into the dark
at ''Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations''. Retrieved 20 July 2015. He described this period as not having much time for writing sonnets, saying: "being a priest and a poet feels a very natural combination now. It didn’t at first". He put poetry aside for seven years, "in order to concentrate on and learn deeply my priestly vocation, and life in my parishes was totally absorbing and demanding so it felt right to let the other fields lie fallow".Lancia E. Smith
Interview Series with Malcolm Guite – Part 2
''Cultivating The Good, The True, & the Beautiful'' (5 May 2012). Retrieved 20 July 2015. Guite teaches in the pastoral theology graduate programme at the

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where he frequently advises "clergy who are returning to academia to do a dissertation to reflect on their often amazing parish experiences". From 2003 was chaplain and Bye-Fellow of

. Guite also lectures regularly in the United States and Canada, including visiting positions at

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and

Regent College Regent College is an interdenominational evangelical Christian College of Christian studies, and an affiliated college of the University of British Columbia, located next to the university's campus in the University Endowment Lands west of Van ...

. As an academic, Guite describes the focus of his research interests as "the interface between theology and the arts, more specifically Theology and Literature" and "special interests in

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and

" as well as

and British poets. Since October 2014, Guite has been a visiting

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at St John's College, at Durham University. Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band "Mystery Train". He has collaborated with Canadian singer-songwriter Steve Bell for several tracks on a 4-CD set by Bell called ''Pilgrimage'' that was released in 2014 by Signpost Music. In January 2017, Guite spoke as an interviewed guest o
Radio 4's Great Lives Series
together with

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, on how

had inspired her life. Guite writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the ''

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''. He has been also been interviewed several times on the paper's podcast.

Poetry and persona

Guite's poetry has been characterised as modern-day metaphysical poems and psalms.University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Museum
"Heaven's Troubadour: An Evening of Poetry and Song with Malcolm Guite, Sep 11, 6:30pm-8pm"
(September 2014). Retrieved 8 August 2015. Guite's poetry tends to conform to traditional forms, especially the

, and employs both

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and

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. The former

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Rowan Williams Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the Bish ...

, remarked that Guite "knows exactly how to use the sonnet form to powerful effect" and that his poems "offer deep resources for prayer and meditation to the reader".Malcolm Guite, quoting Rowan Williams and Grevel Lindop, i
"Kind Words From Rowan Williams"
at Malcolm Guite (blog), 23 November 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2015. Note: Both quotes appear as blurbs on the cover of Guite's ''Sounding the Seasons'' (Canterbury Press Norwich, 2012).Sebastian Snook
"Poetry Reading and Book Launch with Malcolm Guite"
Sarum College, 19 December 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015. Concerning Guite's collection ''Sounding the Seasons'', poet and literary critic

Grevel Lindop Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948) is an English poet, academic and literary critic. Life Lindop was born in Liverpool to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M. and Winifred (née Garrett), and educated at Liverpool College, then W ...

remarked: "using the sonnet form with absolute naturalness as he traces the year and its festivals, he offers the reader—whether Christian or not—profound and beautiful utterance which is patterned but also refreshingly spontaneous". Guite has stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". Further he has argued that a poet can discuss emotions like sorrow without having to lose form, and specifically that the goal of his style contrasts a lot of modern poetry which he states tends to be "quite difficult, jagged and rebarbative; a lot of modern poetry deliberately eschews form or beauty, and is almost deliberately trying to put the reader off." Citing these difficulties, Guite recounted that his entry into poetry was aided by engaging the lyrics of singer-songwriters

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and

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

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professor Holly Ordway writes that "Guite helps us see clearly and deeply how poetry allows us to know truth in a different but complementary way to propositional, rational argument" in her review of ''Faith, Hope, and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination''. In a review of Guite's collection ''The Singing Bowl'', Kevin Belmonte, a ''

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'' contributor who has written biographies of

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and

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, describes Guite as a "questing poet" whose poems "point to places of possibility—in everything—from the commonplace to the transcendent" and explore "what it means to persist in the presence of a God who hears and knows us in time of trouble". Belmonte has further characterised Guite as a national treasure for England. Guite has commented in interviews that he has been influenced by the works of poets

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, T. S. Eliot, and

George Herbert George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devoti ...

, and that he holds Herbert's poem "Bitter-Sweet" dearly. In discussing the impact Herbert's poem has on his views, he said "what I see Herbert saying in that poem is that we take our passions, and sometimes our faults and our brokenness and our stains, and we let God anneal his story. So there's some point in which we become a window of grace".Duke Divinity School
Malcolm Guite: Church with poetry enshrined at the heart
''Faith & Leadership'' (20 July 2009). Retrieved 18 July 2015. Guite has described himself in interviews as "a poet, priest, rock & roller, in any order you like, really. I'm the same person in all three." On 11 September 2014, Guite headlined a poetry reading as part of an art exhibition at the

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. In the promotional materials for the event, organizers asked—describing the poet—"What would happen if

journeyed to

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by way of San Francisco, took musical cues from

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and fashion tips from

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, and rode back on a

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?" Guite is an avid pipe smoker - as befits an admirer of Lewis and Tolkien!

Works

Discography

* 2007: ''Malcolm Guite: The Green Man and other songs'' * 2011: ''Dancing through the Fire''MTV Artists
Malcolm Guite Discography: Dancing Through the Fire"
Retrieved 20 July 2015.

Poetry

* 2002: ''Saying the Names'' * 2004: ''The Magic Apple Tree'' * 2012: ''Sounding the Seasons: Seventy sonnets for Christian year'' (Canterbury Press Norwich) * 2013: ''The Singing Bowl'' (Canterbury Press Norwich) * 2016: ''Parable and Paradox'' (Canterbury Press) * 2019: ''After Prayer'' (Canterbury Press) * 2021: ''David's Crown'' (Canterbury Press)

Christian theology and practice

* 2017: ''Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge'' (Hodder & Stoughton) * 2015: ''Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany'' (Canterbury Press) * 2014: ''Reflections for Lent 2015'' (Church House Publishing) (as chapter contributor) * 2014: ''Word in the Wilderness'' (Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd) (as editor) * 2012: ''Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination'' (Ashgate, Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts) * 2008: ''What Do Christians Believe?: Belonging and Belief in Modern Christianity'' (Walker & Company) * 2000: ''Beholding the Glory: Incarnation through the Arts'', Jeremy S. Begbie (Editor), (Baker Academic)

References

External links

Malcolm Guite's Blog and Website

Malcolm Guite on Twitter
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