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The Silence

ISBN-13: 9781800173927
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Gillian Clarke
Price: AUD $32.99
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Local release date: 01/06/2024
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 80 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: A 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. Were still here in the silence, hearing tree-talk, the winds secrets, the company of birds. (The Year of the Dead) The poems in Gillian Clarkes The Silence begin during lockdown, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the poems about her mother and childhood, about the Great War and its aftermaths, and in her continuing attention to Welsh places and names, and the rituals which make that world come in to focus. In these scrupulous, musical poems, Clarke finds consolation in how silence makes room for memory and for the company of the animal- and bird-life which surrounds us. These poems, compulsively returning to key images and formative moments, echo and bring back other ways of living to the books present moment.; Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff in 1937 and now lives in Ceredigion. A poet, playwright and tutor on the M.Phil in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, she is also president of Ty Newydd, the writers centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Clarke has published eight Carcanet collections, as well as a Collected Poems, a Selected Poems, and two collections of essays/prose. She was the inaugural Capital Poet for Cardiff 2005-6. Among her many awards, Clarke is also a member of the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards and previously won the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award.; • New collection by former National Poet of Wales and recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, one of the leading poets of our time • Previous collection, Zoology, was longlisted for the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry • The poems begin during lockdown’s silences, with other voices emerging under Clarke’s attention • These silences deepen in poems about her mother and childhood, about the Great War and its aftermaths, and in her continuing attention to Welsh places and names • Clarke finds consolation in how silence makes room for memory and for the company of animal- and bird-life which surrounds us; Gillian Clarke is one of the most widely respected and deeply loved poets in the world - Carol Ann Duffy; Google Preview content