{"product_id":"9781035048151","title":"Earth Prayers: Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne hundred poems on the beauty and fragility of the natural world, collated by former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the one hundted poems in \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e span widely across time, but in their moments of joy, empathy or difference, even the earliest poems reveal a concern for the welfare of our planet. Duffy brings these early eco-poems into conversation with contemporary voices writing into the environmental crisis, and through this dialogue sounds a clarion call to cherish and defend the planet while we can.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom John Clare to Lucille Clifton to Kathleen Jamie, the poets collected in \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e speak at times as stewards and ambassadors of the earth, at others in anger at those who would exploit nature, or to question their own part in its decline. And the earth speaks back: in Stephanie Pruitt’s ‘Mississippi Gardens’ the soil bears witness to the worst of human history, while in ‘Poem’ Jorie Graham relays the earth’s plea: ‘remember me’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo encounter nature, these poems tell us, is to be humbled, to have our own smallness magnified by the presence of the sublime. \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the immense beauty of the natural world, and a challenging reminder of our place in ‘the living skein \/ of which the world is woven’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084927205437,"sku":"9781035048151","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781035048151_p0.jpg?v=1775250088","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781035048151","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}