The Map and the Clock by Carol Ann Duffy Julia Bird translated by Jason Stumpf

translated by Jason Stumpf

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2008) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was followed by Imagined Rooms (Salt

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The Map and the Clock by Carol Ann Duffy Julia Bird translated by Jason StumpfThe Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands. Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse beginning with the first writings from the old languages of England and Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and culminating in some of our most recent poets, speaking in our present day tongues. Many of our