At the Source reflects upon a writer’s deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Her creative journeys begin from those sources. The book opens with a house, Blaen Cwrt. A river rises, a tributary which will flow on to the Atlantic, and a family has its roots there.
There the Welsh poet Gillian Clarke writes in what was the byre, looking across a landscape worked and imagined by generations of farmers and poets. Six chapters explore the relationship of places and languages, culture and family, geology and myth, in a poet’s imagination.
At the heart of the book is a journal of the writer’s year. Lyrical, wise, meticulously observant, often humorous, Clarke records the experience of living and working on the land, observing the world from a particular place, the continuity and remaking of the source. Cover drawing copyright Mirlo Cai Cardenas Reproduced by kind permission of the artist. Cover design StephenRaw.com
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
180 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2008-05-29 |
| ISBN |
9781857549867 |
