Selected Poems

Kate Clanchy

Aug 2014 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

Kate Clanchy's poems are much broadcast, translated and anthologised. This Selected Poems draws together her three prize-winning collections, Slattern, Samarkand, and Newborn, published between 1996 and 2004. These are poems about men and boys, school and home, the foreign and the familiar, and the grand adventure of parenthood, but above all about love in all its forms, gathered together in a single volume. This volume is a perfect introduction to a witty, lyrical and truly accessible poet; and for long-term fans, an integrated and satisfying assembly of Clanchy's very best work.

About the author

In addition to the three award-winning poetry collections represented here, Slattern, Samarkand, and Newborn, Kate Clanchy writes for radio and is the author of the much acclaimed Antigona and Me, a memoir, and Meeting the English, a Costa Prize short-listed novel. In 2009 she won the BBC National Short Story Prize, and The Not Dead and the Saved, a collection of stories, is forthcoming from Picador. Kate Clanchy was born and grew up in Scotland, but now lives in Oxford where she was the first City Poet. She is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University, and teaches in her local school.