Gillian Clarke: Collected Poems

by Clarke, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9781857543353
• ISBN10: 1857543351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's 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 Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems--Collected Poems includes all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date.

Table of Contents

The Sundial	p. 11
Journey	p. 11
Snow on the Mountain	p. 12
Blaen Cwrt	p. 13
Baby-Sitting	p. 14
Calf	p. 15
Nightride	p. 15
Catrin	p. 16
Still Life	p. 17
Storwm Awst	p. 18
Death of a Young Woman	p. 18
Swinging	p. 19
Lunchtime Lecture	p. 20
Dyddgu Replies to Dafydd	p. 21
At Ystrad Fflur	p. 23
Railway Tracks	p. 24
Foghorns	p. 25
Curlew	p. 25
Burning Nettles	p. 26
Last Rites	p. 27
Harvest at Mynachlog	p. 28
Clywedog	p. 29
Choughs	p. 30
St Thomas's Day	p. 30
White Roses	p. 35
Return to Login	p. 35
Miracle on St David's Day	p. 36
East Moors	p. 38
Scything	p. 39
Jac Codi Baw	p. 40
Ram	p. 41
Buzzard	p. 42
Friesian Bull	p. 43
Sunday	p. 43
Taid's Funeral	p. 44
Letter from a Far Country	p. 45
Kingfishers at Condat	p. 56
Seamstress at St Leon	p. 57
Les Grottes	p. 59
Heron at Port Talbot	p. 60
Suicide on Pentwyn Bridge	p. 61
Plums	p. 62
Death of a Cat	p. 63
Cardiff Elms	p. 64
Sheila na Gig at Kilpeck	p. 65
Siege	p. 66
Llyr	p. 68
Blodeuwedd	p. 69
Shadows in Llanbadarn	p. 70
The Water-Diviner	p. 71
Syphoning the Spring	p. 75
A Dream of Horses	p. 75
October	p. 76
Climbing Cader Idris	p. 77
Castell y Bere	p. 78
Today	p. 79
Taid's Grave	p. 79
Tadzekistan	p. 80
Shearing	p. 81
At One Thousand Feet	p. 85
Neighbours	p. 85
Windmill	p. 86
Listening for Trains	p. 87
Storm	p. 88
Seal	p. 89
Ichthyosaur	p. 90
Cold Knap Lake	p. 90
Apples	p. 91
Oranges	p. 92
Fires on Llyn	p. 92
Talking of Burnings in Walter Savage Landor's Smithy	p. 94
Border	p. 95
Post Script	p. 96
Marged	p. 97
Overheard in County Sligo	p. 97
Shawl	p. 98
My Box	p. 99
Falling	p. 99
Roadblock	p. 101
Binary	p. 101
The Hare	p. 102
Hare in July	p. 104
Trophy	p. 105
The Rothko Room	p. 106
Red Poppy	p. 107
February	p. 108
Gannet	p. 109
Night Flying	p. 109
In January	p. 110
Tory Party Conference, Bournemouth, 1986	p. 111
Times like These	p. 111
Slate Mine	p. 112
Roofing	p. 113
Hearthstone	p. 113
Pipistrelle	p. 115
Fulmarus Glacialis	p. 115
Racing Pigeon	p. 116
Magpie in Snow	p. 117
Tawny Owl	p. 118
Peregrine Falcon	p. 119
Clocks	p. 119
Cofiant	p. 121
Blood	p. 139
Musician	p. 143
The Listeners	p. 144
Anorexic	p. 144
The Vet	p. 145
Baltic	p. 146
Holderlin in Tubingen	p. 147
The Poet	p. 148
Wild Sound	p. 149
Swimming with Seals	p. 150
Lurcher	p. 151
Lament	p. 152
No Hands	p. 152
Olwen Takes Her First Steps on the Word Processor in Time of War	p. 153
Eclipse of the Moon	p. 154
Advent	p. 154
The Lighthouse	p. 155
On Air	p. 156
Wind Gauge	p. 156
Grave God	p. 157
The Angelus	p. 158
Family House	p. 159
Stealing Peas	p. 159
Sunday	p. 160
Breakers Yard	p. 161
The Loft	p. 162
Hay	p. 163
Beudy	p. 164
Walking on Water	p. 165
The West Window of York Minster	p. 166
St Winefride's Well	p. 166
Coming Home	p. 167
The Wind-Chimes	p. 169
The King of Britain's Daughter	p. 170
Index of titles	p. 185
Index of first lines	p. 00
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