Full Description
A brilliant collection that explores the frailties, perils and joys of love in all its guises. Clare Best's carefully observed, memorable and formally daring poems deal with a wide range of themes, including the intimacy of domestic situations, the rights of women in our society, and the pressing need to respect and learn from the natural world.
Contents
Contents
Woods, Chalk, Glass
A heron in a poem might seem a cliche 5 Lark walk, February 6 Watering hole 7 Clem, at six, 8 Googling in November 9 Still life with lemon 10 Browsing at my desk, May 2020 12 In Markstakes Wood 13 beyond the gate 14
By Night
At WH Smith, Brighton Station 19 The pools at Glyndebourne 20 Once my home 22 Using Greenwood's Large-Scale Map of the County
of Suffolk (1825) to find my friend's house 23 Portent 24 Hard hat 25 Rising in the night, in summer 26 My son's first leather boots 27 St Lucy's Day, 4.15 pm 28 Last thing 29
Cinder Path
Salting 33 After your procedure 38 On this day 39 What do we know? 40 The words 41
By Water
Three poems about fog 45 In the well-house, December 46 Book of water 47 Dewpond 48 Cart pond 49 Geological section 50 salt works 51 Field notes, Horsmonden furnace pond 52 Water spirit 54 Lecanomancy 56
Flight Path
Return to Lago Maggiore, March 2022 59 Of seasons 60 T-Junction 61 A14 62 It was always my head 63 Burning 64 Late fig 66 I'm writing 67 Self-portrait as boundary oak 68 My possible deaths 69 Flowers, 70 Wake 71 Crossing the Styx in the Quiet Carriage 72 Epitaph 73
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