Malcolm Guite

Quick Facts

Full Name	Malcolm Guite
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Nov 12, 1957(1957-11-12)
Age	67
Birthplace	Ibadan
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Oyo State
Horoscope	Scorpio

Malcolm Guite Biography

Malcolm Guite is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on November 12, 1957 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Guite was born in Nigeria on 12th November 1957, in Ibadan (Oyo State). He was born with the Yoruba tribal name Ayodeji, which means “the second joy”. Guite claims that his mother was given the name Ayodeji by a Yoruba nurse, who helped her through a difficult birth. Guite says this name saved his and his mother’s lives. His parents were British expatriates who lived in Nigeria. His father was a Methodist lay preacher and traveled around the country proelytizing. His father was also a lecturer in Classics at University of Ibadan. Guite says that his father, who was a wanderer, left Nigeria after 10 years and found work in Canada.

Guite stated in interviews that he was influenced by T. S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney and that Herbert’s poem “Bitter-Sweet”, is a special favorite of his. Guite spoke out about the influence Herbert’s poem had on his views. He said that Herbert was saying that we should take our passions and sometimes our brokenness, our stains and our faults to God and let God tell his story. There’s a point when we are a window to grace. Guite described himself as a poet, priest and rock & roll in interviews. All three are the same person. Guite hosted a poetry reading on 11 September 2014 as part of an exhibition at the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Weatherspoon Art Museum. The organizers of the event asked: “What would happen if John Donne and George Herbert traveled to Middle Earth via San Francisco, took musical cues and fashion tips and returned on a Harley?”

Guite’s poetry has been characterised as modern-day metaphysical poems and psalms. Guite’s poetry tends to conform to traditional forms, especially the sonnet, and employs both rhyme and metre. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, 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”. Concerning Guite’s collection Sounding the Seasons, poet and literary critic Grevel Lindop 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 Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.

How hard to hear the things I think I know,
To peel aside the thin familiar film
That wraps and seals your secret just below:
An undiscovered good, a hidden realm,
A kingdom of reversal, where the poor
Are rich in blessing and the tragic rich
Still struggle, trapped in trappings at the door
They never opened, Life just out of reach…
—Malcolm Guite, from “Parable and Paradox”

Guite is a teacher in the Cambridge Theological Federation’s pastoral theology graduate program. He advises clergy who return to academia to write a dissertation about their extraordinary parish experiences. Since 2003, Guite has been Bye-Fellow at Girton College in Cambridge. Guite lectures frequently in the United States, Canada, and has held visiting positions at Regent College and Duke University Divinity School. Guite, an academic, describes his research as being focused on “the interface between theology and arts, specifically Theology and Literature”, and has “special interests” in Coleridge and C. S. Lewis, as well as J. R. R. Tolkien and British poetry. Guite has been a visiting researcher at St John’s College at Durham University since October 2014.

Malcolm Guite Net Worth

Malcolm Guite is one of the richest Poet from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Malcolm Guite 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ayodeji Malcolm (pronounced “gait”)(IPA) was born 12 November 1957. He is an English poet, singer-songwriter and Anglican priest. Guite was born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents. He earned degrees at Durham and Cambridge universities. His research interests include the intersection between religion and the arts and the study of works by Owen Barfield, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis as well as British poets like Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is currently a Bye Fellow and chaplain at Girton College, Cambridge and associate Chaplain at St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge. He has been a visiting professor at many colleges and universities in North America and England on several occasions.

Guite was ordained a priest in Church of England in 1991. He was assigned as a deacon to the first parish on “the Oxmoor estate” in Huntingdon. This period was not conducive to writing sonnets. He said that it felt like he had a natural marriage of priest and poet. At first, it didn’t. He put poetry aside for seven long years “in order to focus on and learn deeply about my priestly calling. Life in my parishes was intense and demanding, so it felt right not to touch the other fields.”

Houston Baptist University 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 Huffington Post contributor who has written biographies of William Wilberforce and G. K. Chesterton, 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.

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