Book description
The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known
as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with
the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as
Writer in Residence at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, she came into
close touch with another kind of music, and with the different spaces
it occupies, the different demands it makes on performers and
audiences. There are poems from Bosnia, France and the Mediterranean
coast, and poems from the landscape we most readily associate with
this best-loved of Welsh poets: Wales, its people and its creatures.
