Publication

1999-08-25 - Carcanet Press Ltd

Language

English

Word Count

41,250 words, Guess

Page Count

165 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101857549864
  • ISBN-139781857549867
  • Goodreads2758937
  • LibraryThing7834221
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008411194
and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR6053.L328 Z46 2008
  • LCCPR6103

Description

"At the Source reflects upon a writer's deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Her creative journeys begin from these sources. The book opens with a house, Blaen Cwrt. A river rises, a tributary which will flow on to the Atlantic, and a family has its roots there. There the Welsh poet Gillian Clarke writes in what was the byre, looking across a landscape worked and imagined by generations of farmers and poets." "Six chapters explore the relationship of places and languages, culture and family, geology and myth, in a poet's imaginations. At the heart of the book is a journal of the writer's year. Lyrical, wise, meticulously observant, often humorous, Clarke records the experience of living and working on the land, observing the world from a particular place, the continuity and remaking of the source."--Jacket.

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  • At the SourcePaperbackCarcanet Press Ltd1999-08-25

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