Description
The territory of Clare Shaw’s third collection isn’t one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town. Flood offers an eye-witness account of those events, from rainfall to rescue, but ripples out from there. Intimately interwoven with the breakdown of a relationship, flooding serves as a powerful metaphor for wider experiences of loss, destruction and recovery. Testifying equally to the forces that destroy us and save us, flood runs through the book in different forms – bereavement and trauma, the Savile scandal, life in an asylum. Yet ultimately, this is a story of one life as it is unravelled and rebuilt, written from the heart and from the North, in a language as dangerous and sustaining as water.
Animal Rhymes (Lift the Flap Book) 
101 Poems About Childhood 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Poetry in the Making 
Immrama 
Being Alive 
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