The Map and the Clock

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TheMapandtheClockisacelebrationofthemostscintillatingpoemsevercomposedonourislands.CuratedbyPoetLaureateCarolAnnDuffy,andbyGillianClarke,NationalPoetofWales,thisanthologygathersfourteencenturiesofextraordinaryverse-beginningwiththefirstwritingsfromtheoldlanguagesofEnglandandIreland,ScotlandandWales,andculminatinginsomeofourmostrecentpoets,speakinginourpresent-daytongues.Manyofourfoundingmythsandlegendsaretoldhere-KingArthurandGawain,BeowulfandMadSweeney,theMabinogion-asarethenursery-talesandsongswestillsingtoday.ThroughthesepageswewitnessthetragedyofEuropeanwarsandworldconflict;wecourtromanceandfriendship;weexplorenationhoodandbelonging,identityandbelief;andwearewelcomedtoacelebrationoftheculturaldiversityofthepoetriesofourtwenty-firstcentury.TheMapandtheClockisastunningandessentialtreasuryofthepoemsthathavemouldedourlanguages,examinedourworlds,andshapedourislandsthroughtime.