Earth Prayers: Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World

Name: Earth Prayers: Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World
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Author: Carol Ann Duffy
ISBN: 9781035048144

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'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - Guardian

The wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in Earth Prayers span widely across time, but in their moments of joy, empathy or difference, even the earliest poems reveal a concern for the welfare of our planet. Duffy brings these early eco-poems into conversation with contemporary voices writing into the environmental crisis, and through this dialogue sounds a clarion call to cherish and defend the planet while we can.

From John Clare to Lucille Clifton to Kathleen Jamie, the poets collected in Earth Prayers speak at times as stewards and ambassadors of the earth, at others in anger at those who would exploit nature, or to question their own part in its decline. And the earth speaks back: in Stephanie Pruitt's 'Mississippi Gardens' the soil bears witness to the worst of human history, while in 'Poem' Jorie Graham relays the earth's plea: 'remember me'.

To encounter nature, these poems tell us, is to be humbled, to have our own smallness magnified by the presence of the sublime. Earth Prayers is a testament to the immense beauty of the natural world, and a challenging reminder of our place in 'the living skein / of which the world is woven'.

Book Details

Publisher:: Picador UK
ISBN:: 9781035048144
Binding:: Hardcover
Pages:: 160
Authors:: Carol Ann Duffy
Published Date:: 2025-01-14
Language:: English

All Poetry Animals & Nature Carol Ann Duffy English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh European

About Carol Ann Duffy

Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019, Carol Ann Duffy was the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the post. She was born in Glasgow and educated at the University of Liverpool. Her collections include The World's Wife (Picador, 1999), Standing Female Nude (Anvil Press, 1985), and Mean Time (Anvil Press, 1993), which won both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She is Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2015.

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