Henri Nouwen, Now & Then Podcast | Malcolm Guite, "Lifting the Veil"
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The Sounding the Seasons
Malcolm: I love the discipline of form. The whole point about a sonnet is it's only 14 lines you can see the last line on the page but before you read the first one if you're writing a sonnet you know where you have to stop that concentrates things so all those things made it attractive. He dedicated his sonnets to Edward King and Marta Cambridge among whom these sonnets first lived and breathed when he was an assistant priest at church. Malcolm: When I first started to write these sonnets in turning the seasons they arose in and through and out of a church community. It got to the point where sometimes I said in the sonnet what I really wanted
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