This is a poet who brings an acute and totally individual perception to everything she writes about. First love, parental tyranny, a gift of flowers, a violent storm, a night sky, the end of a relationship or a life – all these and many other things are portrayed through one person's unique and compelling vision. And this vision is accompanied by an equally personal capacity for reflection. A very fine poem, 'An Evening's Entertainment', begins with a simple description of old fisherman chatting in a pub, takes us on to an ambiguous encounter as a sexy woman 'swans up' (so things are not quite so simple), and closes by telling us that things are in fact not simple at all ('Slot machines chatter like clockwork toys, / and the till ticks on to closing time'). In'Is Anybody There?', one of her most powerful poems, the opening line 'The ones in the know say someone is there' introduces a beautiful study of the pattern of rebirths in nature. But the next stanza asks, at similar length, 'Is anybody there … when the bomb flowers, … when the stoning takes another life?' And the poem closes with the question that has troubled humanity since its beginning: 'Is anybody there at all, then?' |
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Susi Clare was born in Nottinghamshire and educated in Mansfield, Birmingham and London. Her travel articles have been published in English-language magazines, The Guardian and The Telegraph, and she has worked as a translator for Italian magazines, painters, sculptors, photographers, poets and a publishing house in Varese. She has been placed, highly/commended and short-listed in several poetry competitions and has been published in anthologies, magazines and on line. The Man who brought Copper and Gold is her first poetry collection.
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Susi Clare
ISBN: 9789388319591
SUSI CLARE
ISBN: 9788119654888
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