Beschrijving
The poems in Gillian Clarke's 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 book's present moment.
Boekdetails
Formaat
Paperback
Pagina's
79 pagina's
Taal
Engels
Gepubliceerd
May 30, 2024
Uitgever
Carcanet Press Ltd.
ISBN-10
180017392X
ISBN-13
9781800173927