{"product_id":"the-silence-23","title":"Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025\u003cbr\u003e\nA Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The days have no names.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe day they count the dead,\u003cbr\u003e\nthe day they closed the doors,\u003cbr\u003e\nturned off the lights.\u003cbr\u003e\nWe’re still here in the silence,\u003cbr\u003e\nhearing tree-talk,\u003cbr\u003e\nthe wind’s secrets,\u003cbr\u003e\nthe company of birds.’\u003cbr\u003e\n(‘The Year of the Dead’)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Gillian Clarke's \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e begin during \nlockdown, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other \nvoices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the \npoems about her mother and childhood, about the Great War and its \naftermaths, and in her continuing attention to Welsh places and names, \nand the rituals which make that world come in to focus. In these \nscrupulous, musical poems, Clarke finds consolation in how silence makes\n room for memory and for the company of the animal- and bird-life which \nsurrounds us. These poems, compulsively returning to key images and \nformative moments, echo and bring back other ways of living to the \nbook's present moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54009633800536,"sku":null,"price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800173927_0db0ba68-3eba-42de-8ed7-ee77b0c2a2eb.jpg?v=1765093535","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-silence-23","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}