Earth Prayers

Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World

Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, Carol Ann Duffy, DBE

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Picador
24 October 2024

Poetry

'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - Guardian

The wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in Earth Prayers 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.

From John Clare to Lucille Clifton to Kathleen Jamie, the poets collected in Earth Prayers 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'.

To encounter nature, these poems tell us, is to be humbled, to have our own smallness magnified by the presence of the sublime. Earth Prayers 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'.

By: Carol Ann Duffy DBE
Edited by: Carol Ann Duffy DBE
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 143mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9781035048144
ISBN 10: 1035048140
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 24 October 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carol Ann Duffy was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. 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 Prizes in America. She won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2012, and was appointed DBE in 2015. In 2021, she was awarded the International Golden Wreath for lifetime achievement in poetry.