Description
‘Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power… Averno may be Glück’s masterpiece’ The New York Times Book Review
An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss – by a mother’s possessive grief, an abducted girl’s equivocal memories, a farmer’s lament for a lost harvest. This chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet’s luminous wit. Together, the poems of Averno swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to find it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth.
Animal Rhymes (Lift the Flap Book) 
101 Poems About Childhood 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Poetry in the Making 
Immrama 
Being Alive 
Songs of innocence & of experience 
The 'White City' 
States of Happiness 
The Smeds and the Smoos 
Counting Backwards 
Luck Is the Hook 
Negative of a Group Photograph 
Insistence 
Of Sea 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
Time Is a Mother 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
The Moon Before Morning