Their particular focus is that of overt sensuality in Clare's poetry, revealed through both his knowledge and understanding of other poets, such as the Roman poet Ovid, and through his own undoubted experience of love and sexuality with the women in his life. These books are:
The Lovers Meeting (2013)
The Poet in Love (2014) &
In the Shadows (2015).
In all aspects of production a handmade book is conceived and planned as a work of art, as well as a conveyor of Clare’s wonderful poems. The content, the images, the text, the papers, the cover materials, the style of binding are all intended primarily to enhance and add to the experience of discovering more about a great poet’s wo
Book One - The Lovers Meeting - (from 1818) is a reworking by Clare of Ovid's first century erotic poem. It seems to us very much with Patty in mind.
Book Two - The Poet in Love - is the very real story of Clare's meeting, courtship of Patty Turner, and then her subsequent pregnancy and their marriage in 1820.
Book Three - In the Shadows - is the story of Clare's largely illusory relationship with Mary Joyce ranging over his whole life.
To clear, these are now priced at £12.50 each, or £30 for all three (P&P included). Nowhere will you find more collectable Clare books as such a crazy price. When published they were priced at £40 each.
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