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    The Silence

    Gillian Clarke

    The poems in Gillian Clarke's The Silence begin during lockdown, whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge.

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    Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 6-10

    Gillian Clark

    City of God, composed in the early fifth century, is one of the great classics of western culture. Augustine was a teacher of rhetoric before he was bishop of Hippo…

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    Selected Poems: Gillian Clarke

    Gillian Clarke

    Selected Poems , originally in Carcanet’s Signatures series, has proven to be one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through six printings in ten years…

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    Collected Poems: Gillian Clarke

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    A collection of poems by Gillian Clarke. Carcanet have also published her Selected Poems (1985), Letting in the Rumour (1989), and The King of Britain’s Daughter (1993).

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    Being Christian in Late Antiquity: A Festschrift for Gillian Clark

    What do we mean when we talk about ‘being Christian’ in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and, Greco-Roman culture and society to…

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    Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity

    Gillian Clark

    What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other? The papers collected here explore late antique philosophers’ answers…

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    Selected Poems

    Gillian Clarke

    A stunning collection from one of the most important figures in poetry today.

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    King of Britain’s Daughter

    Gillian Clarke

    This work was specially commissioned as the text of an oratorio for the 1993 Hay on Wye Festival and is based on the story in the Mabinogion of Branwen, the…

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    Five Fields

    Gillian Clarke

    Largely known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this collection Clarke engages with the city in its human and material diversity. There are poems from Bosnia…

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    Making the Beds for the Dead

    Gillian Clarke

    This is the first new collection by Gillian Clarke in over five years. Her themes include plague, archaeology, war, urban violence and rock.

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    At the Source: A Writer’s Year

    Gillian Clarke

    Reflects upon a writer’s deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Lyrical, wise, meticulously observant, this work records the experience of living and working on the land, observing the world…

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    Augustine: The Confessions

    Gillian Clark

    Explains just how and why Augustine came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely secular existence to follow a life of prayer and study, leading…

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    Augustine: The Confessions

    Gillian Clark

    Explains just how and why Augustine came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely secular existence to follow a life of prayer and study, leading…

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    Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals

    The ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constitute a large body of Greek philosophical writings, not previously translated into European languages. This volume includes notes and indexes and forms part of…

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    The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen

    Gillian Clarke

    The first English translation by a poet of one of Britain’s oldest cultural treasures, which captures its compelling ‘word-music’.

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    Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity

    Gillian Clark

    What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other? Late antique philosophers, Christians included, asked these central questions…

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    Ice

    Gillian Clarke

    The author turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the…

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    Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles

    Gillian Clark

    Provides an introduction to women’s lives in the centuries when Christianity became the dominant religion. This book contains chapters on women and the law, medicine, and domestic life. It discusses…

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    A Recipe for Water

    Gillian Clarke

    Explores water as memory and meaning, the bearer of stories that well up from a personal and collective past to return us to the language of the imagination in which…

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    Selected Poems

    Gillian Clarke

    A stunning collection from one of the most important figures in poetry today.

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    Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1-5

    This authoritative English-language commentary discusses Books 1-5, in which Augustine argued that Rome suffered worse disasters before Christianity was known; that empire depends on injustice; and that everything depends on…

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    Zoology

    Gillian Clarke

    The long-awaited new collection from the former National Poet of Wales.

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    Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life

    The Pythagorean Life is the most extensive surviving source on Pythagoreanism, and has wider interest as an account of the religious aspirations of late antiquity.

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    Ten Poems from Wales

    National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke selects and introduces ten poems from Wales.

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    Nadolig y Dryw (The Christmas Wren)

    Gillian Clarke

    This year, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, we are privileged to publish Gillian Clarke’s story The Christmas Wren, written in response to Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas…

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    The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen

    Gillian Clarke

    A new version of one of Britain’s oldest cultural treasures, which captures its compelling ‘word-music’.

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    Christianity and Roman Society

    Gillian Clark (University of Bristol)

    This work explores current debates on early Christianity in Roman society. It adopts an interdisciplinary and thematic approach to examine topics such as paganism, martyrdom and the church. It offers…

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    Christianity and Roman Society

    Gillian Clark (University of Bristol)

    This work explores current debates on early Christianity in Roman society. It adopts an interdisciplinary and thematic approach to examine topics such as paganism, martyrdom and the church. It offers…

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    Heaney and Clarke: York Notes for GCSE: Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke & Pre-1914 Poetry

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    York Notes for GCSE offer an approach to English Literature that aims to help readers achieve a better grade. This series has been completely updated to reflect the needs of…

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    Augustine: Confessions Books I-IV

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    This volume presents the Latin text of one of the classics of Christian literature, concerned with one human life as an example of what it is to be human and…

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    Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

    Brings together seventeen international specialists. The essays of this book range from Socrates to late antiquity, with a particular focus on Cicero. The Subjects covered include: the Stoics and Cynics…

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    Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction

    Gillian Clark (Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol)

    The time known as Late Antiquity (c.300-c.800) was a fascinatingly diverse and important period which saw the ‘Fall of Rome’ and the growth of Christianity and Islam. Gillian Clark explores…

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    Christmas Wren

    Gillian Clarke

    story of a child’s Christmas in Wales

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    The Map and the Clock: A Laureate’s Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland

    Now in paperback: a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed in Britain, chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales.

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    One Moonlit Night (T. Llew Jones)

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    An English adaptation of Lleuad yn Olau, published as a splendid hardback volume to celebrate the centenary of the birth of T. Llew Jones. – Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

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    Drabacus

    Susan Ainsworth

    Holiday pals Susan, Dean, Pauline and Michael are propelled into an adventure only possible in their wildest dreams when an old service elevator is discovered in the disused part of…

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    Boy Parts

    Eliza Clark

    A pitch-black psychological thriller based on the critically acclaimed debut novel by Eliza Clark. Premiered at Soho Theatre, London.

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    Murmur

    Menna Elfyn

    New collection from Welsh-language poet Menna Elfyn presented in a bilingual format with English translations by leading poets from Wales.

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    Perfect Blemish

    Menna Elfyn

    Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man’s…

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    Monica: An Ordinary Saint

    Gillian Clark (Professor Emerita of Ancient History and Senior Research Fellow, Professor Emerita of Ancient History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)

    In Monica: An Ordinary Saint, Gillian Clark reconciles competing images of the life and legacy of Augustine’s mother, arriving at a woman who was shrewd and enterprising, but also meek…

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    Monica: An Ordinary Saint

    Gillian Clark (Professor Emerita of Ancient History and Senior Research Fellow, Professor Emerita of Ancient History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)

    In Monica: An Ordinary Saint, Gillian Clark reconciles competing images of the life and legacy of Augustine’s mother, arriving at a woman who was shrewd and enterprising, but also meek…

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    Bondo

    Menna Elfyn

    Menna Elfyn is Wales’s leading Welsh-language poet. Bondo is the latest of her collections to be published in Welsh and English at the same time: so there is no separate…

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    Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Perspective

    This book encapsulates work done in the DIRC project (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability), bringing together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to…

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    Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Perspective

    This book encapsulates work done in the DIRC project (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability), bringing together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to…

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    The Fifteenth Century VII: Conflicts, Consequences and the Crown in the Late Middle Ages

    A range of important issues in current research are debated in the latest volume in the series, with a special focus on warfare.

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    The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For

    A deadly delicious collection of recipes for appetizers, entrees, desserts, drinks, and more, all from the bestselling authors of Mystery Writers of America.

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    The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism

    Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution.

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    The Poets at Dove Cottage: Poems about the Wordsworths and the Lake District

    Foreword by Michael McGregor, Director of the Wordsworth Trust. Contains poetry by: S T Coleridge, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and other more recent Dove Cottage residents including Simon Armitage, Gerard…

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