{"product_id":"earth-prayers-encounters-in-poetry-with-the-natural-world-9781035048144","title":"Earth Prayers: Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e span widely across time, but in their moments of joy, empathy or difference, even the earliest poems reveal a concern for the welfare of our planet. Duffy brings these early eco-poems into conversation with contemporary voices writing into the environmental crisis, and through this dialogue sounds a clarion call to cherish and defend the planet while we can. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom John Clare to Lucille Clifton to Kathleen Jamie, the poets collected in \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e speak at times as stewards and ambassadors of the earth, at others in anger at those who would exploit nature, or to question their own part in its decline. And the earth speaks back: in Stephanie Pruitt's 'Mississippi Gardens' the soil bears witness to the worst of human history, while in 'Poem' Jorie Graham relays the earth's plea: 'remember me'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo encounter nature, these poems tell us, is to be humbled, to have our own smallness magnified by the presence of the sublime. \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the immense beauty of the natural world, and a challenging reminder of our place in 'the living skein \/ of which the world is woven'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include \u003ci\u003eMean Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove Poems \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Bees\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes \u003ci\u003eQueen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tear Thief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eShe was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185196630290,"sku":"9781035048144","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3624fea-391b-49bd-a646-53e4acf15ad0.jpg?v=1776157622","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/earth-prayers-encounters-in-poetry-with-the-natural-world-9781035048144","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}