Earth Prayers - Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World

''Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time'' - Guardian Carol Ann Duffy brings together an anthology of one hundred modern and classic poems which capture moments of revelation, empathy or difference with the non-human and, in doing so, prompt us to rethink our place in the world. Vita Sackville-West encounters a frog by torchlight and Norman MacCaig, famously, addresses a toad. Simon Armitage kicks and demolishes a mushroom while Charlotte Mew mourns the cutting-down of elms in her London Street. Keats is transported by the nightingale and Edward Thomas by nettles. Les Murray eulogises his runner-beans and Liz Lochhead tells us what the pool said on midsummer''s day. With poems from Shakespeare to Bishop and Heaney, Chaucer to Hopkins, out-of-copyright poems, to poems from diverse cultures, Green Epiphanies will be a glorious new anthology for everyone who loves the world and the life it sustains.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Ann Duffy
• Assisted by: Carol Ann Duffy (Editor)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2024
• EAN: 9781035048144
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3504814-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 226 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)