MIST BECOMING RAIN: SELECTED POEMS of AUSTIN CLARKE F Starik intimate narratives cling to the

intimate narratives cling to the future through memory

without sacrificing a note of its urgency or remarkable skill

results in a cacophony of voices that bring together what life has torn apart

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MIST BECOMING RAIN: SELECTED POEMS of AUSTIN CLARKE F Starik intimate narratives cling to theOutstanding"Austin Clarke is a massive presence. He is a master craftsman whose Collected Poems brings his work before us in all its range and variety, its strength and humanity' The Irish Times A new selection of work by Austin Clarke, one of the most significant poets of twentieth century Ireland " whose short lyrics remain among Ireland's best loved poems. This revelatory new selection shows how Clarke's life and work describe the tensions between