Books written by Kate Clanchy
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Protest: Stories of Resistance
It is the 8th April – two months and three weeks since she'd left work. ... to stipple the small garden yellow, had been promptly bitten back by the frost.
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Protest: Stories of Resistance
In the age of fake news and post-truth politics this book fights fiction with (well researched, historically accurate) fiction.
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Ocho fantasmas ingleses
Ocho destacados escritores contemporáneos reinterpretan las clásicas historias de fantasmas en esta inquietante colección de relatos ambientados en las localizaciones más misteriosas de las islas británicas.
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Ocho fantasmas ingleses
Ocho destacados escritores contemporáneos reinterpretan las clásicas historias de fantasmas en esta inquietante colección de relatos ambientados en las localizaciones más misteriosas de las islas británicas.
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Selected Poems
Kate Clanchy's 'Selected Poems' gathers together poetry from her three prize-winning collections, 'Slattern', 'Samarkand', and 'Newborn'.
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Meeting the English: A Novel
"Exceptional . . . Clanchy has a wincingly accurate eye for social comedy, a vivid descriptive sense, and profound understanding of her characters. This is a delectable read.
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Antigona and Me
Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered, Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate offers Antigona a job as a nanny, and Antigona, equally shrewdly, accepts.
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What is She Doing Here?
What Is She Doing Here? is a memoir of the five years the poet Kate Clanchy spent living closely with Antigona, a Kosovan refugee.
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Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
By telling the stories of some of the kids she's taught, as well as her own, Kate Clanchy (MBE) offers a candid, funny and moving insight into life in British state schools today.
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Newborn
Clanchy's most powerful and accomplished book of poetry to date, Newborn will delight her many admirers.
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Samarkand
In this new book her range is extended dramatically. Samarkand is both a darker and a more sunlit collection than its predecessor.
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Friend: Poems by Young People
A charitable anthology of brilliant poems by young people, edited by the award-winning writer and teacher Kate Clanchy.
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Slattern
A collection of poems from Kate Clanchy, covering such subjects as relationships between men and women, married men, self-sufficient men and wounded men.
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The Not-Dead and the Saved and Other Stories
A beautiful and moving collection of stories about love and loss from the 2009 BBC Short Story Award winner and poet.
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England: Poems from a School
A donation of 50p from the sale of each copy of this book will be made to and shared equally between the charities First Story and Forward Arts Foundation to help further creative writing in schools.
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The Picador Book of Birth Poems
In this celebratory book, poet Kate Clanchy has made an inspired choice of poems that speak powerfully of the wonder, joy, bewilderment and mystery that new life brings, from conception through to the first years of parenthood.
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Meeting the English
'Shimmers with sensual pleasures . . . Meeting the English is richly conceived, original and very entertaining' Guardian
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Our Cat Henry Comes to the Swings
Lyrical text introduces a cat who outwits dogs all the way to and from the playground, where he goes with his young master and a friend to preside over the slide and reign as king of the swings.
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Selected Poems
Kate Clanchy. Dark,. Dark. He is calling down the night, the way hecalls out next door's dog and sees the word grow ears and eyes, emerge on heavy loping legs, afurry manifest of name. The dark will have a lion's neck.
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La testa di Shakila
Alcuni anni fa ebbi un lungo colloquio con Kate, ai margini di un festival letterario, e sinceramente non capii perché - invece di parlarmi della sua poesia, confortandomi nello sforzo traduttivo e di divulgazione che andavo compiendo - ...