Gypsy and the Poet

David Morley

Gypsy and the Poet
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 November 2013
Pages
78
ISBN
9781847771247

Gypsy and the Poet

David Morley

Beginning with the real-life encounter between the poet John Clare and a Gypsy named Wisdom Smith, David Morley reinvigorates the sonnet sequence to stage the fellowship that develops between the two men. We see the Gypsy and the poet banter, argue and teach each other lessons; work, love, and lose what they have loved. The central section of the book enacts Clares own belief in the creative forms of nature itself: I found the poems in the fields / And only wrote them down.

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