Ice
eBook - ePub

Ice

  1. 64 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Ice

About this book

In Ice Gillian Clarke turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination. The poem 'Polar' is the poet's point de repère, evoking a polar-bear rug she had as a child and here resurrects in a spirit of personal and ecological longing that becomes a creative act. She lives with the planet, its seasons and creatures, in a joyful, anxious communion. The book also includes the asked for' and commissioned poems, and the Guardian spreads Clarke has written during her time as National Poet of Wales (2008-2013). She follows in the rich millennium-old Welsh tradition of occasional writing going back to the first-known named British poets Aneirin and Taliesin in the sixth century.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781847771995
eBook ISBN
9781847776884
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Polar
Ice
Advent Concert
Winter
River
Ice Music
Home for Christmas
Snow
White Nights
In the Bleak Midwinter
Hunting the Wren
Carol of the Birds
Freeze 1947
Freeze 2010
New Year
The Dead after the Thaw
Swans
Who Killed the Swan?
The Newport Ship
Eiswein
Thaw
Fluent
Nant Mill
Farmhouse
Taid
In Wern Graveyard
Lambs
The Letter
Grebes
Burnet Moths
Er Gwell, Er Gwaeth
Honesty
Bluebells
Between the Pages
Glâs
Small Blue Butterfly
Mango
Senedd
The Tree
Blue Sky Thinking
A Wind from Africa
Running Away to the Sea – 1955
Pheidippedes’ Daughter
Storm-Snake
Oradour, 10 June 1944
A Glory in Llanberis Pass
Shearwaters on Enlli
White Cattle of Dinefwr
Six Bells
Sarah a...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Polar
  7. Ice
  8. Advent Concert
  9. Winter
  10. River
  11. Ice Music
  12. Home for Christmas
  13. Snow
  14. White Nights
  15. In the Bleak Midwinter
  16. Hunting the Wren
  17. Carol of the Birds
  18. Freeze 1947
  19. Freeze 2010
  20. New Year
  21. The Dead after the Thaw
  22. Swans
  23. Who Killed the Swan?
  24. The Newport Ship
  25. Eiswein
  26. Thaw
  27. Fluent
  28. Nant Mill
  29. Farmhouse
  30. Taid
  31. In Wern Graveyard
  32. Lambs
  33. The Letter
  34. Grebes
  35. Burnet Moths
  36. Er Gwell, Er Gwaeth
  37. Honesty
  38. Bluebells
  39. Between the Pages
  40. Glâs
  41. Small Blue Butterfly
  42. Mango
  43. Senedd
  44. The Tree
  45. Blue Sky Thinking
  46. A Wind from Africa
  47. Running Away to the Sea – 1955
  48. Pheidippedes’ Daughter
  49. Storm-Snake
  50. Oradour, 10 June 1944
  51. A Glory in Llanberis Pass
  52. Shearwaters on Enlli
  53. White Cattle of Dinefwr
  54. Six Bells
  55. Sarah at Plâs Newydd, Llangollen, 5 July 1788
  56. Pebble
  57. Taliesin
  58. August Hare
  59. Gleision
  60. Osprey
  61. Wild Plums
  62. Harvest Moon
  63. Blue Hydrangeas
  64. In the Reading Room
  65. The Plumber
  66. Listen
  67. The March
  68. Archive
  69. The Book of Aneirin
  70. Lament for Haiti
  71. The Fish Pass
  72. Ode to Winter
  73. The Year’s Midnight
  74. About the Author
  75. Also by Gillian Clarke from Carcanet Press
  76. Copyright