The Silence

by Gillian Clarke

A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024. ' 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, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180017392X
• ISBN13: 9781800173927
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"