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Map and the Clock
A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland
Av Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke
E-bok, 2016
148 kr
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Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems. The editors have drawn on the rich languages of these islands, starting with the very first poets whose names we know - Taliesin and Aneirin, who …
Map and the Clock
A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland
Av Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke
Häftad, 2017
190 kr
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The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands.Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the …
Gododdin
Lament for the Fallen
Häftad, 2022
166 kr
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The timeless and compelling 'word-music' of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition.The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the …
Gododdin
Lament for the Fallen
E-bok, 2021
145 kr
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The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year 600AD. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the English, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally …
Selected Poems
E-bok, 2016
246 kr
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Selected Poems gathers together the best of Gillian Clarke's poetry in a single volume. National Poet of Wales, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award, Clarke is one of the best-known names in UK poetry today, as well as one of the most popular …
Zoology
Häftad, 2017
127 kr
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Longlisted for the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry Zoology is Gillian Clarke’s ninth Carcanet collection, following her T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Ice. The collection opens with a glimpse of hare, whose ‘heartbeat halts at the edge of the lawn’, holding us ‘in the planet of its stare’. Within …
Roots Home
Essays and a Journal
Häftad, 2021
190 kr
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Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022. Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home.As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She combines two elements. Seven vivid essay-meditations, …
Silence
Häftad, 2024
166 kr
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Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024‘The days have no names.The day they count the dead,the day they closed the doors,turned off the lights.We’re still here in the silence,hearing tree-talk,the wind’s secrets,the company of …
Ice
Häftad, 2012
129 kr
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In Ice Gillian Clarke turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination. The poem ‘Polar’ is the poet’s point de repère, evoking a polar-bear rug she had as a child and here …
Collected Poems
Gillian Clarke
Häftad, 1997
190 kr
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The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her readings, for her radio work and her …
At the Source
A Writer's Year
Häftad, 2008
148 kr
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At the Source reflects upon a writer’s deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Her creative journeys begin from those sources. The book opens with a house, Blaen Cwrt. A river rises, a tributary which will flow on to the Atlantic, and a family has its roots there. There the Welsh poet …
Making the Beds for the Dead
Häftad, 2004
130 kr
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The title sequence of Making the Beds for the Dead charts the journey of a virus in 'the plague year'. Come from outer space, it travels - on a fox's paw, the beak of a kite and a crow and a buzzard - into the very heart of our lives. The poet includes personal, verses and stories from farmers in …
Recipe for Water
Häftad, 2009
129 kr
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The drop of water on the tongue, writes Gillian Clarke, 'was the first word in the world', and the language of water is the element in which these poems live. Ocean currents create histories and cultures - the port cities of Cardiff and Mumbai; myths are born where great rivers have their source …
