Gillian Clarke

A Recipe for Water (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The drop of water on the tongue, writes Gillian Clarke, 'was the first word in the world', and the language of water is the element in which these poems live. Ocean currents create histories and cultures -- the port cities of Cardiff and Mumbai; myths are born where great rivers have their source high in the mountains. A bottle of spring water contains the mineral elements of life; we can read the earth's deep history in arctic ice. We share the rhythms of migrations in the pull of tides and seasons through rivers and estuaries. In her first collection since becoming the National Poet of Wales in 2008, Gillian Clarke explores water as memory and meaning, the bearer of stories that well up from a personal and collective past to return us to the language of the imagination in which we first named the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847778130
• Artikelnr.: 38355589

Autorenporträt

Gillian Clarke is a poet and a writer whose works include Collected Poems and Making the Beads for the Dead. She tutors creative writing at the University of Glamorgan and is the president and founder of Ty Newydd, a national writers' center in Wales. In 2008 she was appointed the National Poet of Wales.