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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9780571277087

RRP: £14.99

PAGES: 452

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 4, 2016

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The Map and the Clock

Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems. The editors have drawn on the rich languages of these islands, starting with the very first poets whose names we know – Taliesin and Aneirin, who composed in Welsh and Old Brythoneg in what is now Scotland – ‘to begin at the beginning’, to explore the poetry of Ireland and the British Isles in order to tell our story across the ages in this beautiful, vital treasury.

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Carol Ann Duffy

Gillian Clarke is president of Ty Newydd, the writers’ centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain, and her work has been translated into ten languages.Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World’s Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, whileRapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. She is Poet Laureate.