Gillian Clarke
Roots Home: Essays and a Journal
Roots Home: Essays and a Journal
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Roots Home is a collection of seven essay-meditations by Welsh poet Doreen Cunningham, exploring the ways in which poetry bears witness to the presence and transcendence in a threatened world. It precedes a journal from January 2018 to December 2020, concluding with a poem entitled Winter Solstice. The meditations are informed by Dylan Thomas, George Herbert, and W. B. Yeats and are a place for requiem and celebration, recording details that might be forgotten.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2021
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022, Wales' most beloved contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home. As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She combines two elements. Seven vivid essay-meditations, informed by (among others) Dylan Thomas, George Herbert, and W. B. Yeats, explore the ways in which poetry bears witness to what is and what might be, presence and transcendence in a threatened world. The meditations precede a journal that runs from January 2018 to December 2020, concluding with a poem entitled "Winter Solstice" - three years of living close to animals, mountains, and (in particular) trees, in human intimacy and lockdown.
Listen! They are whispering now while the world talks, and the ice melts, and the seas rise. Look at the trees!... This is necessary work. As she declares in Why I Write, the first meditation in Roots Home: "Morning begins with my journal. I write in it most days, though not every day. It is friend and listener, to record, remember, rage and rhapsodise, a place for requiem and celebration. Words hold detail which might be forgotten - the way the hare halted as it crossed the lawn, the field where a rainbow touched down across the valley, the different voices of wind, or water, the close and distant territorial arias of May blackbirds."
Weight: 280g
Dimension: 136 x 216 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800170780
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