{"product_id":"9781800173927-silence","title":"The Silence","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems in Gillian Clarke's \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e begin during lockdown, whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025\u003cbr\u003eA Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The days have no names.\u003cbr\u003eThe day they count the dead,\u003cbr\u003ethe day they closed the doors,\u003cbr\u003eturned off the lights.\u003cbr\u003eWe’re still here in the silence,\u003cbr\u003ehearing tree-talk,\u003cbr\u003ethe wind’s secrets,\u003cbr\u003ethe company of birds.’\u003cbr\u003e(‘The Year of the Dead’)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Gillian Clarke's \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e begin during lockdown, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the poems about her mother and childhood, about the Great War and its aftermaths, and in her continuing attention to Welsh places and names, and the rituals which make that world come in to focus. In these scrupulous, musical poems, Clarke finds consolation in how silence makes room for memory and for the company of the animal- and bird-life which surrounds us. These poems, compulsively returning to key images and formative moments, echo and bring back other ways of living to the book's present moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41531481161825,"sku":"9781800173927","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35897453_c3fb9d93-e9e9-4bbd-b6b6-dda086612bde.jpg?v=1756932577","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800173927-silence","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}