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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.
- Print length96 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication dateMay 1, 2009
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101857549880
- ISBN-13978-1857549881
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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)
- #3,161 in British & Irish Poetry
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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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"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."





