Congratulations Malcolm, You've made the most out of a smaller space and created a new condensed but cozy home. Pipes, whiskey, music and books, splendid. A lovely spot in front of the fireplace for George. I retired 1 week ago and look forward to the changes and discoveries to come. New adventures, new challenges. Excelsior

"All one needs is a library and a garden", Ciscero.

What a wonderful room, all the good stuff. Chess, scotch, guitar, pipes and books.

“A single breathless act of obedience that arrives as entrusted” so true! I know what that feeling is like

Thank you for taking the time to create these videos. Your channel sparks a seed within me, my artistic side I have been ignoring for a long time, since grade school in fact. You bring me back and inspire me to explore my roots again. Wow, many thanks to you! Love the new place!

My wife is a librarian, so I made her watch this. She was at once delighted and appalled by your study…wonderful books, but the double-shelving hits where it hurts, apparently. For my part, I am filled with beneficent envy…

I love the idea of "clearing a space" simple and profound. ❤

You have a grand and original sound I could listen to your voice, the lord has given you a beautiful gift. Love your videos

Oh lovely! I wish all my books would fit on my shelves. I love your enthusiasm for your books! I hope someday I will be as well read as you

I truly admire your ability to have different opinions to someone else and yet still admire some of the works you do agree on. that is a trait i have the feeling gets rarer and rarer.

Translating vs versioning. Sir! This is of utmost importance. Me bring german, i do speak rudimentary english. To enjoy the rich and vast english and american literature often i found it helpful to first read a !!! Version by an translator. And often got later struck by how much thought went into "translating" certain observations, thoughts, sceneries, struggles or dispute s unfolding in whatever i read. To nail it is .... there are more than 1 approach i guess. Just stumbled Acros your videos and enjoy them immensly. Thank you for all your work and Commitment.

The new space is lovely, I'm glad for you

A beautiful room, Malcolm! Thanks for sharing it with us all :)

another powerful reading, malcolm

Congratulations on getting settled into your new home and study. It is a very cozy place. All the best.

Hurrah! All ready for more spells

Love love love the new study Malcolm. It's looking marvellous. Thank you for your inspiring content. Watching from South Africa, Cape Town.

I love your new place. Thanks for the invitation. May God continue to shower you with blessings.

Blessings! What a wonderful new place! Looking forward to more visits - I can tell you bring much of your home with you, i.e. your book collection. I’m joyful just seeing you enjoying your books in the new space, sorting things out gradually as you say. I look forward to this new Temple of Peace. It makes me excited to finish off my own so to speak (my home recording studio). I love the way your creative spaces reflect your taste and spirit. I’m sure making it that way can’t help but be inspiring!

Always inspiring! Thank you. And perhaps amongst your many books now in new arrangement conversations are being bandied about!

Malcolm so glad the move went well and you are in your new study. It looks great. Thank you for this first poetic insight, the first of many in the new spot. I feel I should say, I am so very impressed at the concept and practice of ‘double shelving’ that’s radical. I have never seen that before. It may be important to copyright this idea in case IKEA get wind of it ... then they’d all be at it. Double Shelving, as our American friends would say ... ‘Awesome’.

Best of luck in the new house, Sir. May it be a blessed home to you and your loved ones. I love your study, I also have hundreds (maybe thousands) of books all over my house... some day I hope to have a proper study.

Lovely to see your new place Malcolm. I shall think of you in your study and den over in Norfolk. Nanjan

Very nice new study! Can't wait to see what you decide to hang on the wall for next time, and the new temple of peace. Blessings!

glad you're all moved in ❤❤❤

Glad to see you've settled in! Great use of space, and I love the fireplace. And that's a fine rilke poem, never heard it. The creation of something new, is it an emergent thing from below, or an emanation from above that leads the way? However it works, I'll be happy to see what you create in your new space!

Thank you, Malcolm. I hope you are beginning to settle-in. May I wish you many, many happy years in your new home - and study.

It may be small. but it's cozy. Congratulations on your new place.

I’m glad to hear you’re retired. I’m looking forward to my retirement in four years when I can spend much more time writing poetry and novels. Congratulations!🎉

Welcome to your new study, Malcolm! The fireplace and mantle are beautiful additions to the room and its atmosphere. I am looking forward to future visits. Your synopsis Don Paterson's translation methodology reminded me of Michael Edwards's, but Edwards formulates his theory from a position of belief in the dialectic between Creation - Fall (or Babel) - Re-creation. Edwards exposits his theology of language and literature in Towards a Christian Poetics (which contains a chapter on translation), and I would be interested to hear your response to that work sometime. The Peace of Christ

Excellent! Was waiting to see what the new office would look like, very cool 😎

I'm envious, I don't read books unless they are reference books but I love my whiskey when I have it, I am charmed by the idea of a study with the pipe though.

Love the fireplace…

Congratulations Malcolm, I’m very happy for you 🙏🏾🇨🇦 Thank you for mentioning your collections. Lol 😂: The pipes, the whiskey and the chess ♥️ Essential things‼️ Do you use that collection of pipes⁉️ So many meaningful objects which have their own meanings that take you into small worlds, where you can dwell. And so you take us deeply into your own private places, the beautiful gift of you welcoming us here, your private library and study. I used to think unicorns were real, until I woke up to the terrible reality of this fallen world. Thank you for explaining: Rilke’s imaginative words. It is intensely a moment of mysterious liminality.

I had to chuckle over seeing together on the shelf The Stripping of the Altars and The Future Does Not Compute -- one of them an historical tome I expect I'll find disputable, the other a critique of current society with pages that were a comfort and encouragement to me as a university professor not, then, very close to retirement. Then nearby there's Owen Barfield's The Rose on the Ash Heap. I saw also Why Dylan Matters, which my son gave me about 8 days ago and am reading now. I do enjoy perusing your shelves.

You remind me a great deal of an old friend of mine from graduate school. He was a pipe smoker, too, and rekindled my interest in it, which had lain dormant since I was a small child listening to another old pipe smoker's stories on the steps of a country church.

Looking forward to more of these chats from the new digs! Further up and further in

Lovely to see your new space and to listen to you read to us again

It looks exactly the same as the other one. Wouldn't have known if you hadn't have said. A room of one's own, indeed. O, my goodness, Rilke. Sublime beyond all poets. Another level is reached. Those nine duino elegies are earth and spirit shattering. Life changing. "we have now done the work of the eyes, we must now do the work of the images imprisoned within us" Rilke became involved with the infamous femme fatale Lou Salome. After she'd finished with Nietzsche and Mahler. She became Rilke's Muse. "The eternal feminine draws us ever upwards and onwards". Faust pt 1, Goethe. Best wishes, Noel

Great to see you have moved in Malcolm! And with a fireplace! The engineer in me is alarmed at the lack of bracing on the high alcove shelves, some L-brackets towards the middle would avoid an unfortunate shower of books (and calm my nerves). I hope the unicorn arrives soon, one of those C.S.Lewis unicorns with a proper horn that can look after itself in a fight.

bless you Malcolm, you're such a cosy character! This was such a blessing to me today. I hope you are happy in your new spot. Love to Maggie

Wow! The Temple of Peace! Your new library is just BRILLIANT! Books, pipes, whisky, chess, music, art, antiques…..and a cozy fireplace……Shangri-La to be sure! LOVE IT! PS…..what do you think of the American poet Robert Service? I love his works. God go with you my brother!

You have created a new unique, magical, spiritual and intellectual man cave, exquisitely and classically English and…hopefully…one day…it will be preserved for all time in the British Museum as well as on KZfaq 😊😊 Interesting that your Temple of Peace is a parallel to my Shed of Serenity in Switzerland….how extraordinary😲….did Cambridge do that to us I wonder? 😄😄😉

Pray that this new phase of life will bring you all the inspiration that you could hope for. God bless.

Just caught up with you in the new study. It has a focal point in the fireplace which looks like a Victorian register grate. The shelving looks fine, and l hope you managed to shelve most of your books. God bless.

How delightful to see the new study and anticipate what will be created there! May your new home be a sanctuary for all who step inside. It certainly is for us virtual guests! And Rilke...I was musing on his spirituality myself the other day. Do you have any suggested readings or your own further thoughts on the subject?

Very cozy study........i retired in 2008.....& am always moving my books around.....6,000 volumes....

I've never heard of this sequence but I very much look forward to a reading of it - great reccomendations as always! Would you ever do a video of advice for writing poetry? I'm not sure about other viewers here who write poetry but I often struggle to write without a tangible spark that's issued forth, as opposed to sitting down and working til something arrives like in other mediums. Your advice would be much appreciated. Best of luck for many years in your retirement and God bless.

I think I heard you mention Sir Humphrey baby I am related to that dude and it was exciting to see Phil Keggy keep the videos coming they’re awesome

Keep it neat Malcolm.

The Virgin is the Space necessary to enable the Christ to Arise. The Emptiness is necessary for the Light to be seen. Form in the Formless and Formless in the Form. Etc. etc.. And not one but two copies of the I Ching ! Thankyou Malcolm x x x

When Don Paterson talks about making a new poem that speaks to the "core and the heart" of the original one, this exercise is, more or less, what Thomas Cranmer did with the Sarum Rite: he tried to keep the beautiful poetry of the Latin and bring the same meaning and beauty into the Book of Common Prayer.

You should try a corn cob 😁

Jealous/envious of your study.

Looks fantastic! Looks like one could get lost in all kinds of strange lands in there. You got a good supply of pipes and pocket handkerchiefs ready to go right?

Malcolm, is your dissertation on John Donne’s sermons published? I’d love to read it. A old mentor of mine, Laurence Stooky (may he Rest In Peace), wrote his dissertation on Donne’s sermons at Princeton. Thanks for your videos - they are a balm in these times.

Welcome home.

Moved to the 'town of weavers'? Although weaving stories in words not wool in cloth. With the father of another not so ancient mariner, the Reverend Edmund Nelson, nearby who was described as ''kind, modest and generous... to be counted on in times of trouble', which is a victory of a good life in anyone's books?

retirement gifts us time to commence with the real work.

I have 'The Stripping of the Altars' by Duffy.!!....my name is Mark Duff.....

Probably sounds odd to say, but I myself have never read a book ever in my life..... I just can't seem to sit and read I just can't do it...... I much rather get up go outside and if I'm not doing something productive I'm totally fine just walking around..... but for some reason I am not one of those kind of people that can read a book and get lost in my imagination I wish I was because the options of books is Limitless

Sir Humphrey Davy that is

Welcome to retirement…have fun

You'll be pleased to know sir that I have filed your videos under "Tom Bombadil " .