The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as Writer in residence at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, she came into close touch with another kind of music, and with the different spaces it occupies, the different demands it makes on performers and audiences. There are poems from Bosnia, France and the Mediterranean coast, and poems from the landscape we most readily associate with this best-loved of Welsh poets: Wales, its people and its creatures.

About the Author
Born in Cardiff in 1937, GILLIAN CLARKE has lived in Wales for most of her life. She is a broadcaster, freelance writer and lecturer; she edited the Anglo-Welsh Review from 1975 to 1984, and latterly has been a teacher of creative writing in primary and secondary schools. Carcanet have published her Selected Poems (1985), Letting in the Rumour (1989, Poetry Book Society Recommendation) and The King of Britain's Daughter (1993).

Reviews
'Gillian 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.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT



Book Information
ISBN 9781857544015
Author Gillian Clarke
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 131g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 136mm * 18mm