At the Source: A Writer's Year

At The Source Reflects Upon A Writer's Deep Inheritance Of Language, Myth And Nature. Her Creative Journeys Begin From Those Sources. The Book Opens With A House, Blaen Cwrt. A River Rises, A Tributary Which Will Flow On To The Atlantic, And A Family Has Its Roots There. There The Welsh Poet Gillian Clarke Writes In What Was The Byre, Looking Across A Landscape Worked And Imagined By Generations Of Farmers And Poets. Six Chapters Explore The Relationship Of Places And Languages, Culture And Family, Geology And Myth, In A Poet's Imagination. At The Heart Of The Book Is A Journal Of The Writer's Year. Lyrical, Wise, Meticulously Observant, Often Humorous, Clarke Records The Experience Of Living And Working On The Land, Observing The World From A Particular Place, The Continuity And Remaking Of The Source.