Making the Beds for the Dead
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Making the Beds for the Dead

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
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Making the Beds for the Dead

About this book

Included in this collection are the poet Gillian Clarke's personal verses and stories from farmers in her family, her neighborhood, and Wales. There is an instinctive and deliberate unity of theme and idiom in this book, and its open structure naturally allows for the incorporation of her seven rock poems, written for the national Botanic Garden of Wales, as well as those based on archaeology, war, and urban violence. The collection's title sequence charts the journey of a virus in the "plague year, " which comes from outer space and travels on a fox's paw, on the beak of a kite, on a crow, and on a buzzard.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781857547375
eBook ISBN
9781847775801
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. In the Beginning
  7. A Woman Sleeping at a Table
  8. Mother Tongue
  9. The Poet’s Ear
  10. The Fisherman
  11. The Piano
  12. Erik Satie and the Blackbird
  13. The Flood Diary
  14. RS
  15. The Painter
  16. The Stone Poems
  17. The Middleton Poems
  18. The Physicians of Myddfai
  19. Nine Green Gardens
  20. Adders
  21. Counting Tigers
  22. Breathing
  23. Taxidermy
  24. Front Page
  25. On the Train
  26. A Death in the Village
  27. Stranger on a Train
  28. Someone
  29. Perfecting the Art
  30. The Night War Broke
  31. Tomatoes
  32. Making the Beds for the Dead
  33. Blackface
  34. On Banc Blaen Cwrt
  35. Birthday
  36. Aftermath
  37. Flood
  38. About the Author
  39. Also by Gillian Clarke from Carcanet Press
  40. Copyright