{"product_id":"9781857543353-collected-poems","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection of poems by Gillian Clarke. Carcanet have also published her \"Selected Poems\" (1985), \"Letting in the Rumour\" (1989), and \"The King of Britain's Daughter\" (1993).\u003cbr\u003eThe Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eThe Sundial\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e               \u003cem\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003eGillian Clarke's poems ring with lucidity and power[.] her work is both personal and archetypal, built out of language as concrete as it is musical,' the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e said. She combines traditional skills with an original voice and outlook, and with a history which includes the unwritten stories of Welsh women. Her \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e has proven one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through seven printings in a dozen years. 'Her language has a quality both casual and intense, mundane and visionary,' the Listener said of \u003cem\u003eLetter from a Far Country\u003c\/em\u003e. 'There is no gaudiness in her poetry; instead, the reader is aware of a generosity of spirit which allows the poems' subjects their own unbullied reality.'\u003cbr\u003e               Gillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems. \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e includes all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450730033526,"sku":"9781857543353","price":11.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36121303.jpg?v=1760453883","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781857543353-collected-poems","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}