Lillie reflects on the darkness of her tarnished youth and confesses her sins
I use it as a metaphor to portray loss
we see how
In the midst of the violence and the hardship each person struggles with their own pain in the face of countless atrocities
Banipal 36 – Literature in Yemen today is published just as this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair begins
The Field in Winter Anna Gurton-Wachter Lillie reflects on the darknessThe Field in Winter, the third collection of poetry by David Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Award, elegantly reflects on memory, time, and the very particular landscape of grieving. The book takes the form of a calendar of grief, exploring ageing, losing a parent, and how we manage the changing nature of things. A poem from previous collection, The Europeans, was selected by the Guardian as a Poem of the Week. The collection was also reviewed in