Gillian Clarke

“There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.”
― Gillian Clarke, At the Source: A Writer's Year

“I want to follow him over the snows
between the immaculate earth and now,
between the silence and the shot that rang
over the ice at the top of the globe,
when the map of the earth was something we
knew by heart,
and they had not shot the bear,
had not loosed the ice,
had not, had not....”
― Gillian Clarke, Ice