The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland; SIGNED 1st/1st

Duffy, Carol Ann and Clarke, Gillian (editors)

ISBN 10: 0571277071 / ISBN 13: 9780571277070

Published by Faber & Faber, 2016

About this Item

Signed by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke to the title page and by John Burnside, Michael Longley, Don Paterson, Paul Muldoon, Sinead Morrisey, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford and Lavinia Greenlaw to the opposing page. A fine copy of a first edition, first impression hardback in a fine, unclipped dustjacket which has been enclosed in a removable protective cover. All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland; SIGNED 1st/1st
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571277071
• ISBN 13: 9780571277070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

An anthology that gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the old languages of England and Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and culminating in some of our most recent poets, speaking in our present-day tongues.

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.

Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff, Wales. National Poet of Wales 2008–2016, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2010) and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award (2012), she is one of the best-known names in UK poetry today, as well as one of the most popular poets on the school curriculum. Poet, playwright, editor, translator, she is President of Ty Newydd writers’ centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her collections include Making Beds for the Dead (2004) and A Recipe for Water (2009); her Selected Poems appeared in 2016.