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In his new collection, The Singing Bowl, poet Malcolm Guite offers this poem inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy: "Through the Gate"

Begin the song exactly where you are

For where you are contains where you have been

And holds the vision of your final sphere



And do not fear the memory of sin;

There is a light that heals, and, where it falls,

Transfigures and redeems the darkest stain



Into translucent colour. Loose the veils

And draw the curtains back, unbar the doors,

Of that dread threshold where your spirit fails,



The hopeless gate that holds in all the fears

That haunt your shadowed city, fling it wide

And open to the light that finds and fares ...

Read the rest on the poet's blog.

"My own poem," Guite says, "is written in the conviction that that there is no depth or recess, no sin or secret, in me or in anyone, beyond the light of Christ, but we have to open the gate and let him come down to our depths, let his Light reveal and name and heal what we have hidden."

Guite has written nine poems inspired from Dante's great work.