Zoology

by Gillian Clarke

Longlisted for the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry Zoology is Gillian Clarke's ninth Carcanet collection, following her T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Ice. The collection opens with a glimpse of hare, whose 'heartbeat halts at the edge of the lawn', holding us 'in the planet of its stare'. Within this millisecond of mutual arrest, a well of memories draws us into the Welsh landscape of the poet's childhood: her parents, the threat of war, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784102164
• ISBN13: 9781784102166
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.4"