
Collected Poems
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'Gillian Clarke's poems ring with lucidity and power[...] her work is both personal and archetypal, built out of language as concrete as it is musical,' the Times Literary Supplement said. She combines traditional skills with an original voice and outlook, and with a history which includes the unwritten stories of Welsh women. Her Selected Poems has proven one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through seven printings in a dozen years. 'Her language has a quality both casual and intense, mundane and visionary,' the Listener said of Letter from a Far Country. 'There is no gaudiness in her poetry; instead, the reader is aware of a generosity of spirit which allows the poems' subjects their own unbullied reality.'
Gillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems. Collected Poems includes all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date.
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Gillian Clarke was National Poet of Wales 2008 - 2015.
Carcanet has published her Selected Poems (1985), Letting in the Rumour (1989, Poetry Book Society Recommendation), The King of Britain's Daughter (1993), Collected Poems (1997), Five Fields (1998) and Making the Beds for the Dead (2004).
Listen to Gillian in conversation with Nadia Kingsley on the Fair Acre Press DIVERSIFLY podcastabout her writing process, what poetry is, and the Welsh language.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- from The Sundial
- The Sundial
- Journey
- Snow on the Mountain
- Blaen Cwrt
- Baby-sitting
- Calf
- Nightride
- Catrin
- Still Life
- Storwm Awst
- Death of a Young Woman
- Swinging
- Lunchtime Lecture
- Dyddgu Replies to Dafydd 1
- At Ystrad Fflûr 1
- Railway Tracks
- Foghorns
- Curlew
- Burning Nettles
- Last Rites
- Harvest at Mynachlog
- Clywedog
- Choughs
- St Thomas's Day
- from Letter from a Far Country
- White Roses
- Return to Login
- Miracle on St David's Day
- East Moors
- Scything
- Jac Codi Baw 1
- Ram
- Buzzard
- Friesian Bull
- Sunday
- Taid's Funeral
- Letter from a Far Country
- Kingfishers at Condat
- Seamstress at St Léon
- Les Grottes
- Heron at Port Talbot
- Suicide on Pentwyn Bridge
- Plums
- Death of a Cat
- Cardiff Elms
- Sheila na Gig at Kilpeck
- Siege
- Llyr
- Blodeuwedd 1
- Shadows in Llanbadarn
- The Water-Diviner
- from Selected Poems
- Syphoning the Spring
- A Dream of Horses
- October
- Climbing Cader Idris
- Castell y Bere1
- Today
- Taid's Grave
- Tadzekistan
- Shearing
- from Letting in the Rumour
- At One Thousand Feet
- Neighbours
- Windmill
- Listening for Trains
- Storm
- Seal
- Ichthyosaur
- Cold Knap Lake
- Apples
- Oranges
- Fires on Llyn
- Talking of Burnings in Walter Savage Landor's Smithy
- Border
- Post Script
- Marged
- Overheard in County Sligo
- Shawl
- My Box
- Falling
- Roadblock
- Binary
- The Hare
- Hare in July
- Trophy
- The Rothko Room
- Red Poppy
- February
- Gannet
- Night Flying
- In January
- Tory Party Conference, Bournemouth, 1986
- Times like These
- Slate Mine
- Roofing
- Hearthstone
- Pipistrelle
- Fulmarus Glacialis
- Racing Pigeon
- Magpie in Snow
- Tawny Owl
- Peregrine Falcon
- Clocks
- Cofiant
- from The King of Britain's Daughter
- Blood
- Musician
- The Listeners
- Anorexic
- The Vet
- Baltic
- Hölderlin in Tubingen
- The Poet
- Wild Sound
- Swimming with Seals
- Lurcher
- Lament
- No Hands
- Olwen Takes Her First Steps on the Word Processor in Time of War1
- Eclipse of the Moon
- Advent
- The Lighthouse
- On Air
- Wind Gauge
- Grave God
- The Angelus
- Family House
- Stealing Peas
- Sunday
- Breakers Yard
- The Loft
- Hay
- Beudy1
- Walking on Water
- The West Window of York Minster
- St Winefride's Well
- Coming Home
- The Wind-Chimes
- The King of Britain's Daughter
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
- Also by Gillian Clarke from Carcanet
- Copyright
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