The Map and the Clock

Author(s): Carol Ann Duffy; Gillian Clarke

Poetry

The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands. Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the old languages of England and Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and culminating in some of our most recent poets, speaking in our present-day tongues. Many of our founding myths and legends are told here - King Arthur and Gawain, Beowulf and Mad Sweeney, the Mabinogion - as are the nursery-tales and songs we still sing today. Through these pages we witness the tragedy of European wars and world conflict; we court romance and friendship; we explore nationhood and belonging, identity and belief; and we are welcomed to a celebration of the cultural diversity of the poetries of our twenty-first century. The Map and the Clock is a stunning and essential treasury of the poems that have moulded our languages, examined our worlds, and shaped our islands through time.


Product Information

An anthology of essential poems, taken from across the centuries, edited by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales.

Gillian Clarke is president of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain, and her work has been translated into ten languages. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, whileRapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. She is Poet Laureate.

General Fields

  • : 9780571277070
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : November 2016
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Carol Ann Duffy; Gillian Clarke
  • : Hardback
  • : Main
  • : English
  • : 821/.008
  • : 736