The Thunder Mutters

Name: The Thunder Mutters
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780571218578
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101 Poems for the Planet

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The Thunder Mutters is a curated anthology of 101 poems exploring the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world. Selected by Alice Oswald, the collection spans diverse eras and geographies, featuring voices such as William Barnes, Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes. These poems collectively examine 'this sweet volcanic cone' of Planet Earth, capturing the dynamic and often intimate border where human experience meets nature's myriad energies.
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Ideal for readers interested in poetry, nature, and environmental themes, as well as those who appreciate a broad historical and cultural spectrum of poetic voices.

A collection of poems about the relationship between people and the Earth from one of Faber's best-loved and best-selling contemporary poets

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Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds.

Including poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare, Gerald Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbury, and many others, The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet casts its net worldwide, historically and geographically, engaging restlessly with the many-centred energies of the natural world.

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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571218578

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2006

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Contributors:

Edited by Alice Oswald
Edited by Alice Oswald
Edited by Alice Oswald

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 196g

Pages: 240

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second collection, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, was a Poetry Book Society Choice.