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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, 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.

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

The Thunder Mutters 101 Poems for the Planet

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 06/04/2006
      ISBN13: 9780571218578, 978-0571218578
      ISBN10: 0571218571
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "'The wonderful Alice Oswald who, by rights, should be winning every prize going this year.' Carol Ann Duffy"

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