21st Century
A01=David Morley
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_David Morley
automatic-update
British
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DCF
contemporary
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
gypsy
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
Romani
softlaunch
sonnets
travellers
Product details
- ISBN 9781847771247
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Beginning with the real-life encounter between the poet John Clare and a Gypsy named Wisdom Smith, David Morley reinvigorates the sonnet sequence to stage the fellowship that develops between the two men. We see the Gypsy and the poet banter, argue and teach each other lessons; work, love, and lose what they have loved. The central section of the book enacts Clare's own belief in the creative forms of nature itself: 'I found the poems in the fields / And only wrote them down'.
