The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet: 101 Poems About the Planet

The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet: 101 Poems About the Planet

by Alice Oswald (Editor)

Synopsis

This radical anthology is concerned with what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', our human planet. The book is dedicated to the rake, an age-old implement which connects the earth to our hands, and the landscape with the sky. Alice Oswald has chosen poems which lie along the line of encounter between the personal and the natural world - from work poems at one end of the scale (songs for lowering anchors, or for cutting cotton) to metamorphic poems in which, at the other extreme, the human has crossed entirely over into non-human. In between, there are any number of portraits of the intermediate state in which most of us spend our lives. Including poems by William Barnes, John Clare, Robert Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery and many others, this anthology engages restlessly with the many-centred energies of the natural world, variously reflecting Hopkins's intuition that 'million-fueled, nature's bonfire burns on'.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 03 Mar 2005

ISBN 10: 0571218547
ISBN 13: 9780571218547

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'The wonderful Alice Oswald who, by rights, should be winning every prize going this year.' Carol Ann Duffy
Author Bio
Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second collection, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her third collection, Woods etc, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize. A Sleepwalk on the Severn appeared in 2009, as did Weeds and Wild Flowers, her collaboration with the artist Jessica Greenman.