bringing balance to the whole of a composition
but it might still be hard to believe that dinosaurs walked here once
the historical with the present and asks you to explore the strange and the familiar in equal measure
with one for every day of the year
even to ‘wound the language’
The Silence by Gillian Clarke<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> roman bringing balance to the whole'The days have no names. The day they count the dead,the day they closed the doors,turned off the lights. We're still here in the silence,hearing tree talk,the wind's secrets,the company of birds.' 'The Year of the Dead' The poems in Gillian Clarke's The Silence begin during lockdown, whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the poems about her mother and childhood, about
