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Recipe for Water Paperback – May 1, 2009

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Using water as a contemplative device, this anthology examines themes of war, womanhood, time, and the environment. Individual poems focus on a range of topics—from the seemingly unremarkable contents of a bottle of spring water to the more global issue of rising ocean levels. Rain, drought, flood, thirst, rivers, and oceans inspire this thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between water and language.

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Carcanet Press Ltd.
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May 1, 2009
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5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
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1857549880
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978-1857549881
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About the Author

Gillian Clarke is a poet and a writer whose works include Collected Poems and Making the Beads for the Dead. She tutors creative writing at the University of Glamorgan and is the president and founder of Ty Newydd, a national writers’ center in Wales. In 2008 she was appointed the National Poet of Wales.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Carcanet Press Ltd. (May 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1857549880
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1857549881
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,243,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Pamela Scott

Well worth a read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2017

I borrowed this from my library and voluntarily reviewed it.

I thought Recipe for Water was a good collection of poems but maybe not great. I enjoyed some poems and didn’t enjoy others. There are a lot of nature poems in this collection and I didn’t enjoy them as much. This is not a fault of the poet’s; they were all vivid and well-written but didn’t suit my tastes as much. I enjoyed the poems that moved away from nature and focused of people and experiences a lot more such as A T-Mail to Keats, Man in a Shower, In the Taj, Reader’s Digest Atlas of the World and Kites. This collection does contain some good poems and is well worth a read.

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danny s.

Beautiful images throughout.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 16, 2022

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I came late to this poet, my loss. Some of her images leap off the page and you have to dwell on them before you can continue reading. So accessible even for the reader coming new to poetry books.

H. Campion

How to express feelings

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 18, 2014

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I came late to Gillian Clarke's work, after, much earlier, a brief but vivid taste of a few poems. Reading her now, the vivid understanding of emotions so vividly focussed in her words & imagery is really powerful. She gets it just right - you know & feel exactly what she means. For example, she understands the Severn & conveys the sheer strength & the formidable, unpredictable . legendary power of it, from the source in the high mountains to the Severn Bore, when it pushes back, against its normal flow, towards its source from the far West -
"a water-dragon is born"...
"rearing its crested head,
past cathedrals and towns,
a seven foot wave
rolling up-country
where no wave should be."

ninka

Fabulous poetry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2013

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I came to Gillian Clarke through helping my grand-daughter with her homework...what a fantastic poet! She is so moving and thought provoking and now I am an addict of her work.

Rhys M Watkins

More than H2O

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 2, 2016

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An inspirational delight of a book. Awash with such bright imagery that transports the reader straight into the writer's eye.

Sally J Blackmore

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 2, 2014

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