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The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet: 101 Poems About the Planet [Hardcover]

Alice Oswald
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (3 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571218547
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571218547
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 543,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"'The wonderful Alice Oswald who, by rights, should be winning every prize going this year.' Carol Ann Duffy"

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This radical anthology is concerned with what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', our human planet. The book is dedicated to the rake, an age-old implement which connects the earth to our hands, and the landscape with the sky. Alice Oswald has chosen poems which lie along the line of encounter between the personal and the natural world - from work poems at one end of the scale (songs for lowering anchors, or for cutting cotton) to metamorphic poems in which, at the other extreme, the human has crossed entirely over into non-human.

In between, there are any number of portraits of the intermediate state in which most of us spend our lives. Including poems by William Barnes, John Clare, Robert Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery and many others, this anthology engages restlessly with the many-centred energies of the natural world, variously reflecting Hopkins's intuition that 'million-fuelèd, nature's bonfire burns on'.


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What?! nobody reviewed this? OK, perhaps I was a bit put off by the slightly poncy title (actually a quote from JOHN CLARE, of all unponcy people) or possibly Alice Oswald's slightly rarified-sounding name (and are poetry books with river names in their titles my thing?) and CERTAINLY the pious subtitle - but enough full disclosure. Much here is familiar - but any anthology containing an epitaph new to me (to Harry Clark in Bideford, p7) immediately finds favour. All in all this is not a bit preachy (it probably should be) but simply celebratory of 'the planet' - yup, that's right folks, looks like the only one we've got - so best stop treating it as a God-ordained shooting range.
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The only planet we've got, probably 24 Jan 2011
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Poems in praise of the earth; a diverse, pleasing, unpreachy collection, part of a very fine Faber series of little poetry anthologies, like the equally covetable Everyman series - stocking fillers for the literati. Earth, our mother and our resting-place: best look after her...
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