Unboxing the UK edition of Galahad and the Grail! Malcolm Guite 2026-09-22 | Unboxing the UK edition of Galahad and the Grail!
Keats’s Ode to Autumn Malcolm Guite 2025-09-10 | I read to you Keats's perfect ode and open out a few of its beauties.you may if you wish encourage me with coffee (or even cider!) and cake, (but do not feel any obligation) buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteor you can support me by joining the channel and getting access to all the bonus video read-throughs of whole books hereyoutube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/jointhanks!
In the Houses of Healing Malcolm Guite 2025-09-03 | "the hands of the king are the hands of a healer' we explore some of what that means in these selected passages from the return of the King.If you are enjoying these little videos you could buy me a coffee here:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteor you could join the channel, and get all the bonus videos here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Lancelot and the Chapel Perilous Malcolm Guite 2025-08-26 | I read you an extract of my forthcoming Merlin's Isle: an Arthuriad. This one is a story about Sir Lancelot and his courage in the face of supernatural horror and fear. The passage in Thomas Malory's Morts D'Arthur may have been consciously, or perhaps unconsciously in Tolkien's mind when he created the fearful ring-wraiths.Volume one of Merlin's Isle 'Galahad and the Grail' is now available for preorder and you can check it out here: rabbitroom.com/merlinsisle
The poetry of the psalms Malcolm Guite 2025-08-19 | You find me preparing for a presentation in York about the psalms and the poetry and art they have inspired!If you are interested in coming to the event itself the link is here:churchtimes.co.uk/finding-inspiration-in-the-psalms-a-church-times-one-day-festivalIf you'd like to support what I do here by joining the channel and getting access to all the bonus videos including complete read throughs with comment on The Wind in the Willows and A Christmas Carol you can do so here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
The Shadow of the Past: another little reflection on Tolkien Malcolm Guite 2025-08-11 | I thought it would be interesting, after our last reflection on how the three hunters feared they were meeting Saruman when really, beyond all hope, it was Gandalf, to look back and see the first time Gandalf talks about SarumanIf you'd like to support me in these little films you might like to buy me a coffee here:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteOr you could become a member of the channel and thus receive and have access to all the bonus videos where I read and comment on whole books chapter by chapter. You can do that here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Which Wizard? Another dip into Tolkien Malcolm Guite 2025-08-02 | We return to Middle earth when Aragorn Legolas and Gimli encounter someone whom they fear may be Sauruman!
Narnia in Northern Ireland! Malcolm Guite 2025-07-27 | You find me in the home of the artist Mark Shields in Northern Ireland, as I read you a wonderful passage from the Silver chair about which I shall be speaking at a CS Lewis conference in Belfast tomorrow!If you'd like to encourage me with coffee and cake you can do so here: buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteIf you'd like to become a channel mameber and get all the bonus videos in which I read whole books chapter by chapter you can do so here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
In King Arthur’s Great Halls and cover reveal! Malcolm Guite 2025-07-19 | you find me in King Arthur's Great Halls in Tintagel with Stephen Crotts, the illustrator of my Arthuriad and today I read a passage about the coming of the grail and we reveal the cover!If you want to learn more and even re-order the book you can do so in the UK here:canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781786227126/galahad-and-the-grailand for North America and all other countries here: rabbitroom.com/merlinsisle
Joseph of Arimathea Malcolm Guite 2025-07-12 | you catch up with me in a pub near Glastonbury where we hear another instalment of my Arthurian epic! I'm travelling with Pete Peterson, my publisher at Rabbit Room and Stephen Crotts the wonderful illustrator and co-creator with me of our Arthurian world. I'm happy to say that there are now pages with both the American and UK publisher's where you can pre-order the book and be sure to get a copy of the first printing! For Uk Readers it is:canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781786227126/galahad-and-the-grailand for North American readers it is:rabbitroom.com/merlinsisleBe sure to check those sites for the big cover reveal on 14th July!
The Giant a story about CS Lewis’s childhood Malcolm Guite 2025-07-04 | A reading from an excellent new book by Judith McQuoid. you can find her here: judithmcquoid.comWhy not join this channel for weekly bonus episodes which build to complete readings of classic books like a Christmas Carol and the Wind in the Willows. Here's the link:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
St. Just in Roseland: a reflection and a poem Malcolm Guite 2025-06-27 | A bit of my own prose and poetry about a magical garden. Daniel Kelly has turned this poem into a beautiful song youtu.be/hvsrNtfjAng?si=n8sbVo4TYGmttjh-
Farewell to Boromir! Malcolm Guite 2025-06-20 | A reading and reflection on the beautiful passage in which Aragorn and Legolas sing their farewell to BoromirIf you wish, you can encourage me with coffee and cake here:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteOr you can become a member of this channel and get a bonus video every week here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Arthur meets Guinevere! Malcolm Guite 2025-06-13 | this time we meet in my little writing hut rather than my study and I show you the roses Maggie planted there and read you a new section of my Arthurian epic.The great news is that the publisher Rabbit Room now has a page for Pre-orders. It's helpful to have these so they no how many to print in the first run, so if you'd like to be sure of a copy, here's the link - Its quite a good site so its worth checking out anywayrabbitroom.com/merlinsislePS Ithis episode is about Arthur meeting Guinevere, but I realise that in my intro (around 5:51) I accidentally said ' Lancelot' instead of 'Arthur'! A bit of a Freudian slip, the Lancelot complications come later.
Shasta and the Thing (or Person) Malcolm Guite 2025-06-07 | Here's a Favourite passage from The Horse and His Boy with some comment and reflection.If you'd like to become a channel member you can have a weekly bonus video in which I read through an entire book chapter by chapter! Ride now we're reading Lewis's favourite book Phantastes by George MacDonald. Members of course have access to all the previous videos to catch up. You can join here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Tolkien’s Dragon Poetry! Malcolm Guite 2025-05-30 | Another dip into the three volume collection of Tolkien's poetry as ever with comments and reflectionsyou can encourage me with coffee and cake here: buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteor come a channel member and get all the bonus videos here: youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Keats Ode on Melancholy Malcolm Guite 2025-05-24 | I read and reflect on one of my favourite poems, in a rare and beautiful edition, and as I do, I reflect on poetry itself.If you wish you can e encourage me with coffee and cake here:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteOr you may wish to join the channel, thus supporting me and getting the bonus readings of whole books chapter by chapter. You can do that here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Aragorn and Arwen together at last Malcolm Guite 2025-05-17 | Having thought about their story whilst reading the poem about Beren and Luthien in the last spell, in this one I read and reflect on the fulfilment of their story.If you'd like to encourage me with coffee and cake you can do so here buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteor you may wish to join the channel as a member and get all the bonus readings of classic books chapter by chapter which you can do here youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/jointhanksM
The collected poems of Tolkien: a dip into the new boxed set! Malcolm Guite 2025-05-09 | We look together at the evolution of one of the most beautiful poems in the Lord of the Rings
Excalibur! Malcolm Guite 2025-05-02 | We return to a reading from my forthcoming epic Merlin's Isle: An Arthuriad, this time the famous episode of the gift of Excalibur, which I have just finished writing. The first Volume of Merlin's Isle will come out next April with RabbitRoom press in the States and Canterbury Press in the UK. You can read more about it on Rabbit Room's site hererabbitroom.com/post/announcing-merlin-s-isle-an-arthuriad-by-malcolm-guite
Pentecost in Narnia: the statues come to life! Malcolm Guite 2025-04-25 | We continue reflecting on The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and I suddenly realise, reading ' What Happened to the Statues' that there is Pentecost in Narnia as well as Easter!
Easter in Narnia! Malcolm Guite 2025-04-18 | Going back to the Narnian passion and resurrection was even more moving for me than I expected
Frodo and Galadriel Malcolm Guite 2025-04-11 | I read some of the great passages from The Mirror of Galadriel and reflect on how Lothlorien is a place of discernment and testing as well as spiritual refreshment.If you'd like to hear me read in full one of the books that inspired Tolkien as well as CS Lewis you can become a member of this channel and get the weekly bonus video which is currently a full reading with commentary of George MacDonald's Phantastes. You can join via this linkyoutube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
A Lent reflection and poem of my own Malcolm Guite 2025-04-05 | I read to you from my own book the Word in the Wilderness, a poem a day for Lent, Holy Week and Easter. as we come towards the climax of Lent which is Holy Week. Its been on my mind as I recently recorded the Holy Week poems for an excellent App called Dwell which gives you a beautiful quiet Biblical reflection to start each day. In fact you can here the poems and meditations I've recorded for them here:dwellbible.com/witwYou might also like to check out the series of bonus episodes - a complete read through with commentary of George MacDonald's Phantastes, the Novel that Changed CS Lewis's life and baptised his imagination. you can check out membership here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
A family poem for Mothering Sunday! Malcolm Guite 2025-03-30 | I read to you from my Grandmother's cycle of poems The Legendary of St. Mungo, her 'Cradle song of St. Mungo, which she used as a lullaby for my mother and which my mother in turn sang to meTomorrow I shall be posting as a bonus video for members the second instalment of my read- through of George MacDonald's Phantastes, so do join, if you would like to hear the whole of Phantastes read through with some commentary and explanations. You can become a channel member here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
The last of Tom Bombadil Malcolm Guite 2025-03-23 | I couldn't forbear to have one more Glimpse of Tom and reflect a little further on who he really is. this time we learn a little more of his powers and presence as he rescues the hobbits from the Barrow Wight!By the way I'm just about to start a complete read through, with commentary, of George MacDonalds fantasy classic Phantastes in a series of bonus videos for members and supporters. You can join here if you like youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/joinor if you wish you can just encourage me with a cup of coffee here: coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite
Who is Tom Bombadil? Malcolm Guite 2025-03-16 | After last week’s first encounter with Tom Bombadil I thought it might be interesting to dip into some other passages that explore or perhaps just further deepen the mystery of who he is.If you like you can encourage me with coffee and cake buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteDon’t miss out on channel membership which gives you a bonus video each week!youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Tom Bombadil! Malcolm Guite 2025-03-09 | I read and reflect on our first encounter with Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings.If you would like to have bonus videos every week in which you can hear me read entire books chapter by chapter why not become a member of the channel? you can do so here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/joinOr you may prefer simply to encourage me with an occasional cup of coffee:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite
Ulysses a classic Tennyson poem! Malcolm Guite 2025-03-03 | Here's a classic poem of Tennyson's in a lovely edition from 1859.If you'd like to encourage me in these readings with Coffee and cake you can do so here:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteIf you'd like to hear me reading whole books, chapter by chapter, then why not become a member. You can already enjoy A Christmas Carol in six readings, and we are currently reading The Wind in the Willows. check out membership here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Gandalf and Frodo Malcolm Guite 2025-02-24 | I read you part of the great conversation between Gandalf and Frodo that now seems so resonant for our own timesIf you are enjoying these pieces and would like to encourage me with coffee and cake you can do so herebuymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteAnd if you'd like to become a member of this channel and get all the bonus videos - readings of whole books with comment chapter by chapter- you can do so here: youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Merlin’s Barrow! Malcolm Guite 2025-02-17 | I read to you from Sounding Heaven and Earth, a collection of my Poet's Corner Essays, telling the story of how I visited Merlin's Barrow!If you are enjoying these pieces and would like to encourage me with coffee and cake you can do so herebuymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteIf you would like longer readings, of whole books chapter by chapter then why not become a member and get those videos too. Right now we're reading The Wind in the Willows!Click here to join youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Mythopoeia! A taste of Tolkien’s poem Malcolm Guite 2025-02-10 | I read you see passages from Tolkien's poem Mythopoeia and reflect on what it tells us about Tolkien's writing
With Martin Shaw! Malcolm Guite 2025-02-03 | I was a guest at Martin Shaw’s school of myth where we explored the grail stories together. And here you find me in his personal library
Strings and Sonnets! Malcolm Guite 2025-01-27 | I show you my new album with the great Phil Keaggy and read you three poems from it. You can check out the album and buy it if you wish here: philkeaggyfriends.bandcamp.com/album/strings-sonnets
Merlin, Taliesin, and the Elves Malcolm Guite 2025-01-20 | I read you another extract from my forthcoming Merlin's Isle: an Arthuriad. You can check it out on Rabbit room Press's site here:rabbitroom.com/post/announcing-merlin-s-isle-an-arthuriad-by-malcolm-guite
The Glastonbury Thorn! Malcolm Guite 2025-01-12 | I show you Hugh Ross Williamson's The Flowering Thorn, illustrated by Clare Leighton
Reading and reflection on The Silmarillion Malcolm Guite 2025-01-05 | At the beginning of the New Year we look at the beginning of all things in Tolkien's SilmarilionI have also, for the new year begun a complete reading of the Wind in the Willows as a bonus for channel members. You can join here if you wish, and you will also find a complete reading of Dickens A Christmas Carol in the members area!youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Books for my Birthday Malcolm Guite 2024-12-30 | I show you a little set of poetry books published in 1880 and read you a Christmassy bit of MiltonI've started a channel membership for reading whole books right through chapter by chapter. A Christmas Carol in six episodes is already up there and you can join me in the New Year, reading The Wind in the Willows here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
The Ents and the Entwives Malcolm Guite 2024-12-23 | After our encounter with Freeboard I thought it might be nice to have his song about the entwives.If you would like some purely Christmas reading I've just posted the final instalment of a complete read-through of Dickens ' A Christmas Carol' for the channel Members. I created the channel membership for those who've requested I read through entire books chapter by chapter. You can join here: youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/joinIn the new year we'll be reading The Wind in the Willows!
An Advent Reading Malcolm Guite 2024-12-17 | As we are halfway through Advent I read to you from my Advent Book Waiting on the Word, and share with you the first of my seven Advent Antiphon Sonnets. I also mention a devotional app called Dwell for whom I have recorded all seven sonnets together with meditations on them. You can check the app put here: dwellbible.com/wotwMy other occupation this Advent has been to do a full reading of Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' for my channel membership, which we'll finish near Christmas day. If you want to join in and have these readings permanently, as well as supporting my work on this channel, you can become a member here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Holding the actual letters! Malcolm Guite 2024-12-14 | You find me in The Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University, where I show you and read from actual letters from Lewis Carol and Mark Twain to George MacDonald and then from MacDonald's incredibly moving letter to Ruskin about the hope of resurrection.Check out the library here beinecke.library.yale.eduIf you'd like to join my channel membership you can hear me read entire books chapter by chapter, right now we're reading 'A Christmas Carol' here's the linkyoutube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Arthur, Merlin and Word-Painting! Malcolm Guite 2024-12-07 | I show you a wonderful painting by Maarten Buijs which he made to portray my work on Merlin's Isle: An Arthuriad, you can check him out here facebook.com/maartenbuijsillustrationAnd prompted by looking at the picture I return to the arthurian and read you a passage about Merlin bringing the infant Arthur to Sir Ector and his wife!Meanwhile Ive been enjoying reading A Christmas Carol in full to members of the channel as an addition to these briefer spells in the library, if you like you can join here:youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
Meeting Treebeard! Malcolm Guite 2024-11-30 | We turn back to Tolkien and meet a favourite character!As I mentioned in my last spell in the library, I have created a membership for this channel, where if you wish, you can join for a modest fee and have access to additional episodes each week in which I will read a whole chapter, rather than a shorter extract, so that we can read entire books together, starting with Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'.If you're interested the just click the 'join' tab below any of my videos.Membership is just a bonus addition to my regular weekly postings here, which will of course continue to be open to all and completely free!
An invitation! Malcolm Guite 2024-11-29 | Many people have asked me if we could meet for longer readings, indeed if I could read a whole book chapter by chapter. So I have added a ‘membership’ for the channel where for a modest monthly subscription* you can join me for a bonus session each week and hear me read whole books chapter by chapter starting in this Christmas season with A Christmas Carol. To join just click the 'join' tab below any of my videosJust to be clear, my usual weekly musings and short readings will of course continue and be freely available for everyone.(*The subscription levels all have equal access to the content, the only difference is the amount you feel you would like to contribute towards the membership effort.)
St. Cecilia and CS Lewis Malcolm Guite 2024-11-23 | I read you a little piece I wrote on CS Lewis and Music, which was published on November 22nd which is both St. Cecilia's day and the anniversary of CS Lewis's death, and that leads into a further reading from The Magician's NephewAs always, you can, if you wish, encourage me with coffee and cake here: buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite
With Frodo and Sam on Mount Doom Malcolm Guite 2024-11-15 | I read and reflect on the poignant conversation between Frodo and sam in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the ringIf you are enjoying these little visits you can encourage me further with coffee and cake here: buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguiteAlso you may like to know that I have set up a membership for this channel, offering members, for a modest subscription, bonus videos in which I read through a whole book chapter by chapter. You can join by clicking the 'join' tb or using this link youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA/join
A Spell in the Gamble Library, Belfast! Malcolm Guite 2024-11-07 | You find me at the Gamble Library, in Union Theological College Belfast, the largest theological library in Northern Ireland, with a wonderful rare books collection. Check it out here:: union.ac.uk/the-gamble-library/about-the-libraryIf you wish you can always encourage me with coffee and cake here: buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite
Merry and Theoden: another dip into Tolkien Malcolm Guite 2024-10-30 | We return to the Return of the King, for that poignant moment when the dying Theoden asks Merry to remember him when he sits with his pipe in peace.If you are enjoying this channel and would like to encourage me with a coffee and a piece of cake you can do so here buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite
A Spell in Tennessee Malcolm Guite 2024-10-23 | you find me in Nashville with the incomparable Andrew Peterson, (andrew-peterson.com) Singer songwriter, author of the Wingfeather Saga, and possessor of a wonderful study-library. He shows us one or two of his treasures
A treasure-trove of rare books! Malcolm Guite 2024-10-15 | You find me at the Bizzel Memorial Library at the University of Oklahoma, delighting in an exhibition of rare books curated by Kerry Magruder, a real treasure trove, check it out here:https://libraries.ou.edu/locations/history-science-collectionsIf you are enjoying these videos you might like to encourage me with coffee and cake here:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite
Tolkien in epic mode Malcolm Guite 2024-10-07 | I read you the passage in the Return of the King in which Theoden leads the charge of the Rohirrim.If you are enjoying these little visits you can encourage me with coffee and cake here:buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite
