Collected Poems – Gillian Clarke (Paperback / Soft Cover)

Gillian Clarke

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarkes 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 workshops.

Gillian Clarkes 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.

Author: Gillian Clarke
Format: Paperback / Soft Cover
Pages: 220
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