The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland by Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke

3.75 AVERAGE

sabsey's review

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I'm gonna be slowly working my way through this gigantic book for the rest of the year - it's one of those books that you can just turn to any page and read a bit here and there. I'm really impressed by the selections and how BIG it is - 700 pages of selected poems!

clari's review

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5.0

There is a bias towards modern poems (for example 1600-1700 is about 50 pages, 2000-now is 110 pages), but it is a beautiful collection which explores some of the perhaps less well known works of British and Irish poetry.