James Roose-Evans Memorial Lecture

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Poet-Priest and musician Malcolm Guite will explore how poetry and storytelling can stimulate and renew for us a sense of meaning and the sacred. Malcolm has a deep interest in how tales and poems work to unlock imagination, leading to insight in our daily lives. He will consider how the beauty and craft of language can give voice to our embodied experience, and its abundance of meaning.

Malcolm was Chaplain for 20 years at Girton College, Cambridge and in 2020 was made a Life Fellow. In 2023 he was awarded the Archbishop Lanfranc Medal, for Education and Scholarship, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He has penned five volumes of poetry, several books on Christian faith and theology and a highly acclaimed biography of Samel Taylor Coleridge entitled Mariner. Malcolm is currently working on a retelling of the Arthurian legends. He lectures widely on theology and literature, including the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has a YouTube channel with over 152,000 subscribers called ‘A Spell in the Library’ at https://www.youtube.com/MalcolmGuitespell.

FREE, donations welcomed.
Tea, coffee and cake will be served after the talk.