The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet

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. 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, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery 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.

• | Author: Alice Oswald
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2006
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571218578
• | ISBN-10: 0571218571