The various literary works of Malcolm Guite would make an excellent addition to the Logos repertoire. In particular, I am coming to appreciate his Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year and his recent and timely Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Here is a description of the latter.
"Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fulfilling. Poetry can help us fathom the depths of Advent's many paradoxes: dark and light, emptiness and fulfilment, ancient and ever new.
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. In the spirit of the season, he blends the familiar and the new, ranging from from spiritual classics such as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert and Christina Rossetti, to contemporary voices Luci Shaw and Scott Cairns. His own acclaimed sequence of sonnets for the great Advent antiphons are also included."
His commentary is not only literary and theological, but invigorating and highly devotional.
