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.buymeacoff...
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@raftastrock7 ай бұрын
Raising a glass, beautiful memory of your parents and their shorthand for love and affection. Thank you, Malcolm!
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@aginsfbayarea73507 ай бұрын
"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!
@nevermind28867 ай бұрын
That one got me, too 😂.
@SUGAR_HOUSE_WYE7 ай бұрын
Malcolm…What a magnificent mop o’hair you have! Silver or not, my friend you managed to keep it! Thanks for sharing Burns with us!
@zhartheProprietor7 ай бұрын
A great literary awakening is going to happen eventually, and you sir, will be remembered among the literate.
@kiwitraveller64517 ай бұрын
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...💜🙏
@hilaryhackleman69167 ай бұрын
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.❤
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
and blessings to you!
@tomginn30917 ай бұрын
Two things I love doing, popping by and playing along. Happy burns night.
@VincetheBarber17907 ай бұрын
As an American, I've never heard of Burns or his day. It was a pleasure to learn and listen.
@hobbitonpiper7 ай бұрын
I’ll have to settle for a dram of Glenfiddich 12 in a Glencairn glass since that’s what I have on hand. I always enjoy hearing you read. Cheers! :)
@snort4554 ай бұрын
I dont quite know how I stumbled onto Burns night. I guess the KZbin algorithm. Thank you KZbin. Thank you for the wonderful reading, sir.
@northstar927 ай бұрын
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.
@doorntreader76247 ай бұрын
What a warm and comfortable time together. Lovely.
@williamgaly45797 ай бұрын
“We’re dramless.” I died on that one.
@stoicepictetus38757 ай бұрын
Thank you for reading out loud Burns, Slàinte Mhath!
@zita-lein7 ай бұрын
I absolutely love how you set these up. So adorable! I think I’ll do something similar when I start my channel! ❤️💙
@scottglynn57247 ай бұрын
❤
@brianheffernan89827 ай бұрын
Great video, Malcolm. It's good to see you again.
@tomaria1007 ай бұрын
I must learn more about Mr. Burns! Thank you, Malcolm!
@Arctic_Cat4237 ай бұрын
This is a joy worth sharing.
@rosebasson97587 ай бұрын
Thank you very much, I was so tired, until I heard you....reciting. I felt revived again.😊
@yusufsayed15837 ай бұрын
Good Morning 😊 Thanks for the read 💯 Have a great day and Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
@hampshirerose93957 ай бұрын
❤ 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. 🥃🏴😊
@SouthAlabamaPiper7 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing, loved the poems from Burns
@minui87587 ай бұрын
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! 😊
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
Thanks and Welcome!
@susanowens10287 ай бұрын
What a lovely visit with you this evening! Looking forward to spending many more together!
@michaelhull96177 ай бұрын
Thank you, Professor, for another wonderful video.
@jimmyskiff98587 ай бұрын
What a great atmosphere you have created here Malcolm! Thanks. Jim Moran Liverpool
@k.howard59277 ай бұрын
This was excellent! so glad the algorithm kicked this up. Ironically getting ready to head out to a Burns Supper. Thank you for the content. 😀
@RichardIIfan7 ай бұрын
Thank you. I used to have a Peterson. Many years ago I bought a copy of the Quiller-Couch Oxford Book of English Verse.
@tommyvaughanhaus7 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting these! Awesome!
@user-cz7kc1qs1w7 ай бұрын
Banks o Doon We sang and in school many years ago ! In Aberdeen 🏴
@MitchelSue7 ай бұрын
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!!
@bigal26967 ай бұрын
Beautiful reading! I'm moved to take down my own volume of Burns. Thank you!
@susanday34786 ай бұрын
Is it me, or does Malcomb look EXACTLY how you would imagine father Christmas to look like in narnia.
@zamiadams43437 ай бұрын
Thank you Malcolm! I'm a Glaswegian and love a whisky like yourself and Wee Rabby, just subbed.
@tattoofthesun7 ай бұрын
I will have a home just like this in time. I have half the book collection!!
@mudlarkingmarionette5 ай бұрын
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.
@luciahaase62017 ай бұрын
Wonderful. I'm a poet from the US. That looks like my book shelf! 🙂
@oldandintheway19557 ай бұрын
Hiyas Malcolm, Yer Burns night posts are always such a delight. Cheers and Sláinte Mhath 🥃 Gary
@robandrews91656 ай бұрын
New to this channel, popped up this morning as a recommended, not sure why? But glad it did. Fantastic stuff, thank you so much 😊
@MalcolmGuitespell6 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard!
@cascadianpiper7 ай бұрын
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. :)
@tarsschley57717 ай бұрын
Lovely. Such a great room too.
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
Thank you! 😊
@tacpowers7 ай бұрын
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!
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
well in one sense of course, you are the visitor, but the person who kindly acts as your proxy and opens the door is my wife.
@tacpowers7 ай бұрын
@@MalcolmGuitespell Excellent!! What a wonder she is! Thank you for clueing me in!
@MrKeithtoad7 ай бұрын
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.)
@frogmorepipester74907 ай бұрын
Lovely jibber jabber! Cheers from Frogmore, S.C.
@dancoomer80907 ай бұрын
Happy Burns Night to you!!
@Pravda6137 ай бұрын
Thank you for another enjoyable chat! (I just looked up "canty" and found that it came from into Middle English from the Low German word for "merry".)
@devonmohn46357 ай бұрын
Thank you my friend.
@rainblaze.7 ай бұрын
For the bards remembrance hae a dram Or maybe mere an dam the harm Yer heid maybe sare come rosy dawn When left sear tae bare wae just its thorn
@walkingnerfwithjack18817 ай бұрын
I'm just 13 but love your channel and poems and talks! But I'm too young to drink!
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
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!
@danielstoddart7 ай бұрын
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!
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
Thanks. Yes I used to put poems on Audioboom. That Q edition is an absolute classic!
@danielstoddart7 ай бұрын
@@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.
@edds467 ай бұрын
Thank you
@danielosullivan31107 ай бұрын
Whiskey with an "e", for me ☘️ Cheers. Please read us some Finn agains awake
@juliebrantner48627 ай бұрын
Happy Burn’s Night .
@waynecraske7117 ай бұрын
Have you ever considered cataloguing your books, including position details, while you're having to double shelve?
@americanman47467 ай бұрын
What is the whisky for which you are partaking Malcolm?
@Sunwolfe7 ай бұрын
Aye, Slainte!
@jerzpiper7 ай бұрын
Happy Burns Night ...Sláinte! 🥃
@orionfoote28907 ай бұрын
God save us from double shelving - can never find a damn thing. Lovely reading though - this channel is such a gem.
@SempreGumby7 ай бұрын
Okay Okay ... just a "touch"
@bryanmcghee3213Ай бұрын
Bobbie Burns went too england once,and vowed never to return,he did'nt like englanders.
@TerryC697 ай бұрын
Hi Malcolm! It seems such a shame for a man with the great gifts of Burns to have died before he was forty.
@mickbrilliantfootballeroft3277 ай бұрын
Who's the mystery Jon that knocks you up?
@StDavidpipes7 ай бұрын
I don’t use alcohol so a bit of ginger ale it is.
@DanielKellyFolkMusic7 ай бұрын
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.
@user-cd1qs7zb7b7 ай бұрын
Sláinte Mhath !!
@michaelmartinserafin20297 ай бұрын
In addition to Burns Night, it is also my birthday!
@danielosullivan31107 ай бұрын
My mom used to say "there's no Jew,like an Irish Jew"😂
@mattmclaughlin62317 ай бұрын
OK. I'm dying to know... what's in the Rattray's tin? Hal O the Wynd and Marlin Flake are two of my all-time favorites.
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
It's Marlin Flake!
@mattmclaughlin62317 ай бұрын
An all time great blend! Makes me feel a bit taller knowing we share some of the same tastes!@@MalcolmGuitespell
@mattmclaughlin62316 ай бұрын
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
@mimicotom6 ай бұрын
What could be better? Smoking a pipe and enjoying a single malt whiskey.
@wchops75787 ай бұрын
I’m enjoying a dram of Glenmorangie 18, slàinte!
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
now that's a very fine dram!
@sandrofazzolari88337 ай бұрын
Slainthe 🥃🙏
@katia_x_katia7 ай бұрын
I would like to be the camera man! 🤗
@allantaylor26927 ай бұрын
I shared a dram, Malcolm!
@MalcolmGuitespell7 ай бұрын
excellent
@StephenGrew7 ай бұрын
Slainte..,🙂
@william60847 ай бұрын
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