The Silence by Gillian Clarke
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 roman the historical with the present

the historical with the present and asks you to explore the strange and the familiar in equal measure

but it might still be hard to believe that dinosaurs walked here once

This exciting new translation is launched to coincide with two anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of Xenia's 1966 private (and first) edition in Italian

in haute language

they are deceptive

The Silence by Gillian Clarke<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> roman the historical with the present'The days have no names. The day they count the dead,the day they closed the doors,turned off the lights. We're still here in the silence,hearing tree talk,the wind's secrets,the company of birds.' 'The Year of the Dead' The poems in Gillian Clarke's The Silence begin during lockdown, whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the poems about her mother and childhood, about