Zoology by Gillian Clarke Ruby Robinson and run parallel to his

and run parallel to his highly praised volumes of memoirs

from ‘My Dog’

in the driving wind

and her Michael Marks nominated Bone Song

Zoology by Gillian Clarke Ruby Robinson and run parallel to hisZoology is Gillian Clarkes ninth Carcanet collection, following her T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Ice. The collection opens with a glimpse of hare, whose heartbeat halts at the edge of the lawn, holding us in the planet of its stare. Within this millisecond of mutual arrest, a well of memories draws us into the Welsh landscape of the poets childhood: her parents, the threat of war, the richness of nature as experienced by a child. In the second of the