I read you a couple of my mother’s favourite Burns poems. If you wish you can encourage me with coffee (or drams!) here: www.buymeacoffee.com/malcolmg...
"Hang on, we're dram-less" is a simply wonderful expression I am sure to find occasion to use, with attribution, in the future. Love it! Slàinte Mhath!
Raising your glass...my two sons are related to Burns from NZ his nephew Thomas Burns...we have a history book about him here in NZ...thanks Malcolm had forgotten about Robby/Rabbie Burns birthday...have a wee dram...slainte...💜🙏
Thank you. That was lovely. We just finished a simple Burns Supper here with My Joe and our toddler, Alban. The dinner becomes more like All Souls’ the older we get, as we remember those who shared the table and poetry with us but cannot join us any longer. Blessings from our family to yours.❤
Parts of Epistle to a Young Friend always stuck with me. I waive the quantum of the sin The hazard of concealing But ach, it hardens all within And petrifies the feeling I still don't really understand but it never left me.
❤ A very happy Burn’s Night to you. Thank you for the beautiful poetry and personal stores you shared with us, making the evening very special. 🥃🏴😊
I suffer from double shelving also ; I start the dusting of the books at the beginning of the month and by the end of the month ; I have completed the living room shelves and then I start again ; trying not to be distracted by fondly remembered volumes. It is like a never ending journey . I remember the people who recommended the books to me . Kindle you say . What I say . Give me a broken spine volume any day and besides you cant write in the margins ,let alone a full page on a kindle. Even the stains are discreet reminders of the chocolate fiends ; the coffee snufflers ,the nicotine knackered and the absinthe apostles . Never loan The Prophet(Kahlil Gibran) ; it has a habit of leaving gaps unless filled by someone new. Not likely now( haha) , my books have now my full devotion . Although , I confess , I do have several volumes of The Prophet , just in case. Tae A Louse is my favourite and a close second is A Man's a Man fur a' that.
Attended my first Robert Burns Supper last Saturday. 😊 Very enjoyable affair! You just popped up into my feed today, but im quite glad you did!! Thank you for your invite and readings!!
How am I only just now discovering this glorious channel?! I’ve had God alone knows many of your sonnets sent to me. It’s an utter joy to put face to work - also how wonderful a face! 😊
Very interesting. I’d heard that first poem a long time ago, but only hearing you read it now, it resonated with me as being VERY similar to Goethe’s Heidenöslein. Ha! I’ll have to look at the two together more closely. :)
I love your eccentric videos, Malcom. Your poetry, your harris tweed, your pipes, your single malt, your scholarly ways. You represent to me, as a Colonial, what I am proud of about my British Heritage. What I don't get is your "fetishism" about that Middle Eastern Desert Religion that merely stems from the Mythologies of the Hebrew Tribes and through several accidents of History expanded way further than it ever should have. Why, so much disdain for the Spiritual Traditions of North-Western Europe!?! All that pink skin and blue eyes! (Oh maybe not blue eyes.)
So good to see you Malcolm, if by none other than on this video...and yet, you make it so personal! You have so many videos out there and yet, I wonder if we might have ever been introduced to the visitor that you always have with you in your study? Maybe I have missed formal introductions from some other video but I thought I might inquire as such anyway. Thank you so much for your time and your beautiful poems!
Welcome, the drink is a pleasure that can and should only come at its proper time, but in the meantime you have all the pleasures of poetry before you, and there's no minimum age for that!
Malcolm, thank you for this. I've been listening to you read your poetry for years. I don't know if you remember this, but years ago, this must have been well over 10 years ago now, you used to post a poem or two on an audio web application (the name of which escapes me at the moment). I'd listen to those and I became a fan. I was also intrigued by your talks on Charles Williams and the other Inklings. I see you also have a copy of the Oxford Book of English Verse. The old Arthur Quiller-Couch edition, not the newer edition, is what got me through my early university education and I still have and enjoy my copy!
@@MalcolmGuitespell Yes! That's it! Audioboom. I was working as a web developer and in the mornings over coffee I'd start my day with one of your readings. I tell students that the Q edition of the OBEV (c.1250-1900) is well worth looking for in the used trade. Here's an idea for you that I think would make a good Malcolm Guite video: compare and contrast the first and second editions of the OBEV and discuss why certain poems were dropped or added.
Ye Nae fond o' Haggis? NAE FOND O' HAGGIS!?! (neither am I). Happy Birthday Rabbie, wish you were better appreciated and supported in life than you now are in death.
Not only do you smoke good tobacco, you write wonderful poems. I am a Baptist preacher near Annapolis Maryland in the U.S.. I am preaching through Genesis this year and Sunday happens to be Gen 3 and the fall. As part of my sermon I would like to share your poem Stones into Bread. It about had me in tears this morning. I am using Word in the Wilderness in my devotional time and it about had me in tears this morning. @@MalcolmGuitespell
I'm here for Burns night 🍻 I imagine your library carved into a grassy hillock downwind of the common folk, as the wolfmoon illuminates the footsteps of your ancestors...way before religion and the manufacture of holy books and carpetbaggers calling themselves priests
