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Ten Poems About Clouds (Booklet)

by Various poets, selected by Katharine Towers - £4.95  Candlestick Press (2017)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781907598487 | ISBN 10: 1907598480

Who hasn’t looked up at the sky and seen a whale or a poodle or a sports car? There’s something about clouds that excites the imagination. Their shape-shifting nature means they never fail to entertain and intrigue us.
 
Here in our little archipelago we certainly get our fair share. Whether it’s the dumpy, fair-weather cumulus of a hot day in high summer or the spirit-dampening stratus of a wet November weekend, it’s hard to imagine our skies without them.
 
These poems explore the many different ways in which we experience clouds – whether simply as weather or as a more abstract representation of a state of mind or a mood. As Billy Collins says, quoting perhaps our greatest painter of clouds John Constable:
 
“The emotion is to be found in the clouds...”
 
from ‘Student of Clouds’ by Billy Collins
 
It’s impossible to pin down a cloud and this rich and varied selection reflects that beguiling elusiveness.
 
Poems selected by Katharine Towers.
 
Poems by Liz Berry, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, John Glenday, Paula Meehan, Fiona Sampson, Lesley Saunders, Katharine Towers, Derek Walcott and Sarah Westcott.

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