Showing posts with label British poets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British poets. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Familiar with Malcolm Guite?

 

Malcolm Guite teaching at Nashotah House


Ayodeji Malcolm Guite has a following among younger Christians. And no wonder! He is cool.

He’s an Anglican priest, poet, academic, and singer-songwriter. He plays the guitar in a blues band called Mystery Train, smokes a pipe, and rides his Royal Enfield cafĂ© racer through the English countryside. He takes long prayer walks, and he speaks eloquently.

Guite is a member of a jazz-poetry performance collective called riprap. He has three cds out on Cambridge Riffs and itunes. He gives regular poetry/music performances in the UK and in the States.

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.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

30 British Poets


Here you may listen to 30 British poets reading their own work! The majority of the recordings are taken from BBC broadcasts and are published here for the first time.

From Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Ted Hughes, this three CD compilation offers a survey of some of the greatest British poets of a century and more. The selection includes historic recordings by Tennyson and Robert Browning; poet laureates John Masefield, Cecil Day Lewis, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes; unforgettable voices, such as Edith Sitwell and Dylan Thomas; and rare recordings by Philip Larkin and Edwin Morgan.