Gillian Clarke is the National Poet of Wales; she is also one of our most distinguished eco-poets. Her intense lyrical poetry displays the beauty of Nature, and the power of language to represent it in heightened form for our contemplation. Her most recent volume, A Recipe for Water, affirms her own deep roots in rural Wales and her love of the Welsh tongue. The collection reveals a poet writing at the height of her powers.
Bach at St Davids
- for Elin Manahan Thomas
In spring, fifteen centuries ago,
the age of saints, and stones, and holy wells,
a blackbird sang its oratorio
in ...
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