The Singing Bowl

by Guite, Malcolm | Literature & literary studies
Published 25/10/2013 by CANTERBURY PRESS NORWICH in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 144 pages
196 x 128 x 10mm | 126g

Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in the everyday; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love, parting and mortality. A further group, 'Word and World', searches for the life of the spirit in the midst of modernity and includes an ode to an iPhone, while others wrestle with the problem of evil and the difficulty of prayer. Throughout, the poet seeks to celebrate the world of which he is made, find heaven in the ordinary and echo a little of its music.