{"product_id":"collected-poems-1","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\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\n               \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\n               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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 192 pages | Published November 1997\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63967235866973,"sku":"9781857543353","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781857543353.jpg?v=1774353379","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/collected-poems-1","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}