Five Fields

The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as Writer in Residence at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, she came into close touch with another kind of music, and with the different spaces it occupies, the different demands it makes on performers and audiences.
There are poems from Bosnia, France and the Mediterranean coast, and poems from the landscape we most readily associate with this best-loved of Welsh poets: Wales, its people and its creatures.

Gillian Clarke currently teaches on the MA course in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan.

The Field-Mouse	p. 9
Barn	p. 10
Shepherds	p. 11
Ark	p. 12
Flesh	p. 14
Neighbour	p. 16
A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998	p. 17
A Very Cold Lamb	p. 18
Rain	p. 19
Architect	p. 20
The Honey Man	p. 21
Phoning Home	p. 22
Glass: At the Glass Factory	p. 23
Glass: Her Table	p. 23
Glass: The Habit of Light	p. 24
Glass: Shopping	p. 24
Glass: Under the Stairs	p. 25
Glass: Migraine	p. 25
Glass: The Croquet Set	p. 26
Glass: Quince	p. 27
Glass: Cut Glass	p. 27
Glass: Elegy	p. 28
Amber	p. 29
The White Ship	p. 30
The Musical Box	p. 32
Legend	p. 33
The Lace-Maker	p. 34
Women's Work	p. 35
God's Eye	p. 36
Unpacking the Angel	p. 37
Snow	p. 38
December	p. 39
Owl Mythologies: Little Owls	p. 40
Owl Mythologies: Barn Owls at Le Chai	p. 41
Owl Mythologies: Seeing Angels	p. 41
Valley	p. 43
Into the Mountain	p. 44
Layers of Melancholy	p. 46
European Field	p. 48
The Paddle Steamers	p. 49
Light	p. 50
Hafod	p. 51
The City: The Journey	p. 52
The City: The Concert Hall	p. 56
The City: Voicing the Organ	p. 57
The City: The Bomb	p. 58
Concerto: Piazza	p. 61
Concerto: Foyer	p. 62
Concerto: Undercroft	p. 63
Concerto: Auditorium	p. 64
Horse Goddess	p. 69
Balancing	p. 71
Sloes	p. 72
Green Man	p. 73
Estuary	p. 74
Lines on First Hearing ...	p. 75
Letters from Bosnia	p. 76
At L'Oursinado	p. 77
Magdalene in Provence	p. 79
Language Act	p. 83
Translation	p. 84
The Vision of Piers Plowman, Passus XI: a version	p. 85
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