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At the Source

A Writer's Year
  • ISBN-13: 9781857549867
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: LIVES AND LETTERS
  • By Gillian Clarke
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 20/12/2013
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 165 pages Weight: 230g
  • Categories: Theory of architecture [AMA]
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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 Gillian Clarke writes in what was the byre, looking across a landscape worked and imagined by generations of farmers and poets. Six chapters explore the relationship of places and languages, culture and family, geology and myth, in a poet's imagination. At the heart of the book is a journal of the writer's year. Lyrical, wise, meticulously observant, often humorous, Clarke records the experience of living and working on the land, observing the world from a particular place, the continuity and remaking of the source.
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