{"product_id":"collected-poems-105","title":"Collected Poems","description":"The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eThe Sundial\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her readings, for her radio work and her workshops.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003eGillian 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,' the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e said. She combines traditional skills with an original voice and outlook, and with a history which includes the unwritten stories of Welsh women. Her \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e has proven one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through seven printings in a dozen years. 'Her language has a quality both casual and intense, mundane and visionary,' the Listener said of \u003cem\u003eLetter from a Far Country\u003c\/em\u003e. 'There is no gaudiness in her poetry; instead, the reader is aware of a generosity of spirit which allows the poems' subjects their own unbullied reality.'\u003cbr\u003e\n               Gillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems. \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e includes all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229337538904,"sku":"9781857543353","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781857543353_e778361c-2f1a-4575-a461-da79855990ad.jpg?v=1777130121","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/collected-poems-105","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}