One morning in London, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. 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 accepts. Over the next five years and a thousand cups of coffee Antigona's extraordinary story slowly emerges.
Presents a simple and poetic picture book about a cat who leads the neighbourhood dogs on a merry chase to the park and back. Henry, a rather superior sort of cat, defies and confounds all the dogs and remains unruffled by his encounters with them.
Nothing transforms our lives like parenthood - and this volume poems aims to map the switchback ride of human emotions from conception through to the first years of a new life.
A collection of poems that speak of the wonder, joy, bewilderment and mystery that new life brings. It is suitable for expectant parents and new parents.
A collection of poems from Kate Clanchy, covering such subjects as relationships between men and women, married men, self-sufficient men and wounded men. Other poems are about memory and time, set in school classrooms and muddy sports fields, and haunting, tender love poems.
A memoir of the five years Kate Clanchy spent living closely with Antigona, a Kosovan refugee. It describes Antigona's escape - from Milosevic, from her forced, violent marriage, and from the most traditional pastoral society in Europe - and the growing toll of her losses, as she and her rebellious teenage daughters negotiate London.