Poetry / Poems
Goose Lane Editions Dust or Fire
Book SynopsisIs this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber''s assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are gone? In the quiet and unsettling poems of Dust or Fire, Faber speaks from the grief following death to explore the meaning of love and family. She is not afraid of gaps and ellipses, finding music in the silences. Her unflinching gaze explores the imperfections of our fleeting existence, our ambitions and relationships, our flawed humanity. Documenting the search for home, the longing to belong, to love and be loved, she turns to the ways love can curve toward pain, how we carelessly hurt one another, but also how we find the grace to forgive and carry on. Dust or Fire is a moving collection, at once grounding and uplifting.
£14.39
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Essential Iliad
Book SynopsisWhile preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgement highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.
£11.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Flowers of Evil
Book SynopsisIn the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) by Charles Baudelaire.
£16.14
North Point Press Duino Elegies
Book SynopsisWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I''d be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdainsto destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.-from The First ElegyOver the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke''s most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke''s German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English. Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With
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Luath Press Ltd Parallel Worlds: Poems from Shetland
Book SynopsisWritten in the beautiful Scots of the Shetland Islands - a blend of Old Scots and Norn - the poems in this title evoke a simple and pure way of life. These are poems with a sense of place, sympathy, commitment to language and the urge to celebrate life itself.Trade ReviewThe volume strikes me as sustaining real quality of excitement and as being punctuated by fresh thematic ventures and pulses of energy... A colourful and compelling collection, enriching in the two-way glimpses it gives us into contrasted (and often 'parallel') cultures - and into the human heart. - STEWART CONN
£8.54
Graywolf Press,U.S. The Renunciations: Poems
Book SynopsisThe Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of "the oracle"-an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends-the act of remembrance becomes curative, and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility. In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection, we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma-a home whose construction starts "with a razing."
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Lexington Books Ecotheology and Love
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow
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Random House USA Inc Purgatorio
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Houghton Mifflin Essays After Eighty
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Button Poetry I'll Fly Away
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Dedalus Press Some Lives
Book SynopsisIn Leeanne Quinn’s poetry, both her way of seeing and her way of saying not only draw in the reader but open up and expand that reader’s experience. Before You (2012) Quinn’s impressive first collection, included poems that explored relationships, loss, art, urban life and a sequence prompted by Elizabeth Bishop’s letters. Her second is even more assured and its modest title belies its range and power. Those some lives, especially those of dissident, courageous activists Osip and Nadezha Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Jakob van Hoddis, are given voice and presence in this compelling collection, in poems that are challenging, allusive and engagingly mysterious. The heroic lives of others, artist Nano Reid’s paintings, an elegy for her sister and Quinn’s own life in Munich are brought before us in vivid, sensuous poems.Narrative and lyric poems are in counterpoint, as are past and present, now and then, in a beautifully orchestrated collection and Quinn’s handling of rhythm and repetition is pitch perfect. Magical moments as in ‘The sun disappears like the sun,/ going down as a favour to the moon’ and moments of clear-sighted intelligence and resilience – ‘Don’t sit out the storm,/ don’t pray that it passes./ Move as it moves/ and move in it’ – are captured by this poet in her own unique voice. — Niall McMonagle
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Independently Published Coserle las alas a la libélula
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Hodder & Stoughton Ten Poems To Change Your Life
Book SynopsisLife-changing wisdom from ten poems that illuminate and inspire change.Trade ReviewA perfect gift * The Good Book Guide *
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Blurb Tangles of Growth
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Taylor & Francis John Miltons Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisJohn Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost* completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period* examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism* reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work* provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text* suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem.With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan
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Gomer Press Welsh Classics Series The1 Dafydd Ap Gwilym
Book SynopsisAnnotated translations of a selection of the Welsh fourteenth century poet''s work together with the original Welsh text and a general introduction explaining the literary and historical background. First published in 1982.
£18.95
Empress Publishing Hobby Horses Will Dance
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Richard Barnfields Poetics
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Austin Macauley Publishers Narrative Reflections
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Austin Macauley Publishers Moments of Joy Moments of Darkness
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Austin Macauley Publishers Hobbo on Life
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Edinburgh University Press Living in History
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Graphic Arts Books The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Book SynopsisPoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley was a slave in Boston, the collection was published in England. Regarded for her mastery of classical poetic form, Phillis Wheatley earned praise from Voltaire and George Washington. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral has long been the subject of scholarly work on the history of African American literature, with some critics arguing that Wheatley’s poems proved detrimental to the struggle of enslaved African Americans. Whether Wheatley made excuses for slavery or, as some have argued, included subtle critiques of the institution in her writing, her talent and importance to the history of African American literature remain undisputed. Despite her status as a slave, Phillis Wheatley seems to have viewed herself as a blessed individual, a woman for whom life itself was a sign of God’s grace, and in whom talent arose in the form of a foreign language. Many of her poems—elegies, odes, and monologues—are aimed at others. Whether in mourning, in praise, or in warning, Wheatley frequently offers her own voice to university students, royalty, God, the muses, and deceased infants. When she does offer glimpses of herself, for instance, in her poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” she provides a complex perspective on her status as a slave: “’Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, / Taught my benighted soul to understand / That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too.” While her words may seem strange to our modern view of the American institution of slavery, they provide an important historical lens onto the adoption of Christianity by African American slaves, who developed a faith grounded in resistance, hope, and redemption. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Manchester University Press Spenser and Donne: Thinking Poets
Book SynopsisThe names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the ‘metaphysical’ poets of the seventeenth century. This collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge this dichotomous view and to engage critically with both poets, not only at the sites of direct allusion, imitation, or parody, but also in terms of common preoccupations and continuities of thought, informed by the literary and historical contexts of the politically and intellectually turbulent turn of the century. Juxtaposing these two poets, so apparently unlike one another, for comparison rather than contrast changes our understanding of each poet individually and moves towards a more holistic, relational view of their poetics.Trade Review'...this volume aims to reassess the relationship between the two poets, though the question of how best to describe that relationship runs through the whole project.'Renaissance Quarterly'Perhaps the most commanding collection of literary essays published this year...'Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Spenser, Donne, and the trouble of periodization – Yulia Ryzhik1 Caring to turn back: overhearing Spenser in Donne – Richard Danson Brown 2 Comparing figures: figures of comparison and repetition in Spenser and Donne – Christopher D. Johnson 3 Refiguring Donne and Spenser: aspects of Ramist rhetoric – Niranjan Goswami 4 Artes poeticae: Spenser, Donne, and the metaphysical sublime – Patrick Cheney 5 Spenser and Donne look to the Continent – Anne Lake Prescott 6 Ovidian Spenser, Ovidian Donne – Linda Gregerson 7 Cosmic matters: Spenser, Donne, and the philosophic poem – Ayesha Ramachandran 8 ‘Straunge characters’: Spenser’s Busirane and Donne’s ‘Valediction of my name in the window’ – Elizabeth D. Harvey 9 Marriage and sacrifice: the poetics of the Epithalamia – Ramie Targoff 10 Spenser’s and Donne’s devotional poetics of scattering – David Marno 11 Eliot, Yeats, Joyce and the modernist reinvention of Spenser and Donne –Jane Grogan and Anne FogartyIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Under the Blue
Book SynopsisFrom the multi-award-winning poet: a new collection of soaring lyricism and desire, exploring the act of care and the consequences of loving
£11.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Maryville
Book SynopsisFrom the T. S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of C+NTO & Othered Poems comes an innovative collection exploring the scars, hopes and potentialities of dyke counterculture and the queer underground.With a vividly sketched cast of characters, award-winning poet Joelle Taylor uses the Maryville butch bar as a lens through which to consider the underground histories of queer London. The violence and pain of oppression and the beauty and intimacy of community are rendered in awe-inspiring high definition in a collection as filmic as it is familiar. A hybrid chronicle, magic trick, prayer and insurrection, Maryville conjures ghosts back to their bodies, a community to their feet.PRAISE FOR C+NTO & Othered Poems:Visionary and powerful. I loved it' HOLLIE MCNISH, author of LobsterUnlike anything I've ever read before ... Epic and intimate' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other Inventive, powerfully moving' TELEGRAPH
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Coffee House Press Dot
Book SynopsisIn this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that don’t even exist—and then they do.In Dot, Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that has endeared him to generations of readers. Guided by curiosity and built on wit, generosity of spirit, and lucid observation, Dot shows how any experience, no matter how mundane, can lead to a poem that flares like gentle fireworks in the night sky of the reader’s mind.Trade Review“A breezy and nostalgic collection reflecting on the quotidian and the momentous. . . . Padgett remains charmingly whimsical, and the more heartfelt entries are a testament to his status as one of the great living American poets.” —Publishers Weekly“A refreshing read for its wisdom and levity, or perhaps for the wisdom in its levity. . . . Padgett’s loose associations feel both delightfully surprising and completely natural.” —Sarah Barch, The Arkansas International“Though the work is comforting, it’s an ode, not a lullaby—this read is a page turner. The real magic of the collection stems from its ability to fully immerse the reader in a fantastical yet familiar world. . . . A fulfilling and immersive experience from cover to cover and somehow still manages to leave readers wanting more.” —Aiden J. Bowers, The Harvard CrimsonPraise for Ron Padgett:“Wonderful, generous, funny poetry.” —John Ashbery“Reading Padgett one realizes that playfulness and lightness of touch are not at odds with seriousness. . . . As is often the case, leave it to the comic writer to best convey our tragic predicament.” —Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books“For decades now, Ron Padgett has built up a body of work that, like the tenderly deadpan ballads of Jonathan Richman, has at its heart a sort of wry, pickled innocence. . . . The charm of his lines—and their power, because his work has a way of disarming you and pulling you in again and again—often comes from his allergy to anything pretentious or even ‘poetic.’ He makes plain niceness look like the most radical stance of all.” —Jeff Gordiner, The New York Times“Padgett’s plainspoken, wry poems deliver their wisdom through a kind of connoisseurship of absurdity.” —The New Yorker“Deeply pleasing to read.” —The Paris Review“I can think of no other poet I’ve read over the past 40 years who embodies Williams’s spirit and his great heart’s aesthetic. . . . I’m willing to put money on Padgett, in two or three generations (it takes that long) to be counted among the best poets of his generation, to be counted among the best American poets, period.” —Thomas Lux, Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award“Forty-five years after Great Balls of Fire, Padgett’s poems still fuel our capacity for joyful incomprehensibility and subsequent mobility of thought.” —Poetry“Padgett’s poems are so playful, self-mocking and eager to please that it would be easy to overlook their craft, not to mention the depth and sincerity of the emotions they convey. What animates [his work] is the tension between the buoyancy of its language and the gravity of its subject.” —The Washington Post“Every page is a good time. . . . Sweet, hilarious, moving and mind-bogglingly imaginative. This book is for anyone who likes writing or who thinks it’s interesting to have a mind (or simply a forehead).” —Richard Hell, The Wall Street Journal“These poems mingle the nervy sophistication and cosmopolitan experimentalism of a thriving international avant-garde art tradition with a kind of hillbilly twang that’s unmistakably American.” —Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle“A twentieth-century Great who is still producing superlative verse today. . . . And that’s exactly what Padgett is: a virtuoso.” —Seth Abramson, Huffington Post“Padgett’s sense of romantic joy is undiminished, as is his thoughtfulness about language and the ways in which time changes meaning, and sense can morph into eloquent absurdity.” —Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly“The poet makes superlative use of the directive writing consciousness—often automatic pilot—to tap the unconscious for memory, vision, emotion, and the unexpected and indefinable. The poems speak backwards and forwards in time, to self, to family and friends, to poetic technique, to the birds caged in the chest. It is so lovely.” —Alice Notley“Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder.” —Robert Creeley“The Ron Padgett of yore is still with us—as charming, unpretentious, and surprising as ever—but there is a new Ron Padgett in this book as well: a poet of heartbreaking tenderness and ever-deepening wisdom.” —Paul Auster“Ron Padgett’s poems sing with absolutely true pitch . . . agile and lucid and glad to be alive.” —James Tate“Always discovering new pleasures and reviving old ones, full of what, in Frank O’Hara’s phrase, ‘still makes a poem a surprise,’ Ron Padgett’s poems, among those of our times, are in the small company of authentic works of art.” —Kenneth Koch“Ron Padgett has that ‘Lubitsch touch’—a whimsical grace that is full of wisdom and self-possession complete with mother-wit and, in his case, American invention.” —Peter Gizzi
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Michigan State University Press Aucassin and Nicolette: A Facing-Page Edition and
Book SynopsisA comic masterpiece of medieval French literature, Aucassin and Nicolette is categorized by its anonymous author as a “chantefable”, or “song-story”, and is the only known work of this kind. This edition includes the thirteenth-century French text and a modern English translation on facing pages.An introduction outlines the text’s background, genre, literary relations, historical contexts, major themes, and relevance to a contemporary audience. Its alternating sections of verse and prose recount a story of love between the aristocratic but distinctly unheroic young lord Aucassin and his beloved Nicolette. Despite familial disapproval, class and ethnic differences, imprisonment, and geographical separation, Nicolette’s single-minded pursuit of Aucassin raises interesting questions about gender roles and their depiction in the Middle Ages.The issue of identity is also addressed, as the identity of Nicolette shifts in terms of class, religion, and ethnicity: born a Muslim princess, she becomes both a slave and a Christian convert, and is eventually recaptured by her Saracen family, much to her displeasure. With its daring escapes, its descriptions of travel to exotic lands, its separations, and its happy reunions, Aucassin and Nicolette is both a classic romantic comedy and an entertaining parody of the romance genre.
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Michigan State University Press Love Is My Savior: The Arabic Poems of Rumi
Book SynopsisThis new volume of Rumi’s works, the first-ever English translation of his Arabic poems, will be exciting for the newcomer to Rumi’s verses as well as to readers already familiar with his mystical philosophy. The poems take the reader on a journey of spiritual exploration, ecstatic union, cruel rejection, and mystic reconciliation. Rumi reveals his soul and welcomes everyone to his spiritual feast.This dual-language volume opens a treasury of Rumi’s mystic thought and startling poetry. His verses pulsate with desire and longing, with sensuality, and with ecstatic celebration. Rumi found in his mystic poetry a vehicle for the expression of the endless spiritual bounties of love. He placed love at the center of his faith and doctrine, and he pronounced it to be the goal of his life and the only form of true worship. This collection is stunningly rendered in English by an award-winning poet and a distinguished translator of Arabic poetry.
£25.65
Simon And Schuster Group USA Almond Blossoms and Beyond
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Writers Republic LLC A Word of Advice
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Writers Republic LLC Behind the Mask
Book SynopsisIn my first installment, my goal is to reach the audience on a relatable/personal Level. My writing style is unique and raw. I touch on love, society norms, injustice and equality. In this book, I hope to inspire you to live your truth unapologetically. You''ll feel brave and free to tell your story and inspire generations to come.
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Love and Shadows
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New York Review Books Pink Dust
Book SynopsisRon Padgett is one of America's best-known and most acclaimed poets. Admired by John Ashbury, Jim Jarmusch, and Anne Waldman, his poems have moved and delighted generations of readers with their inventiveness, their gentle humor, and above all their ability to elicit wonder. These qualities are as evident as ever in Pink Dust, whose title refers to the residue from all the author's erasors, swept away or blown into the air. Like that dust, this is a book of memories rubbing up against the present. Its poignant reflections on old age shimmer with all the insouciance of youth.
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Blurb Inc ebony ink
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Blurb West Bound Land Company and Dream Corporation
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Blurb From the Dust
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Thick Press Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling
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Smokestack Books Tinikling
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Monitor Books Thank You For Everything
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Smokestack Books Separated from the Sun
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Smokestack Books We Are Here to Stay
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Out-Spoken Press Trust Fall
Book SynopsisTrust Fall is an exhalation of loss; a lean into frailty and bodily abandon. In the language of stomach and synapse, Gee maps a path towards accepting unwellness.These poems interrogate the role masculinity, capital and love can play when imposed upon by chronic illness. As each new movement writhes with pain, is abject with grief, it also sings of a deeper beauty to be found in being loved at one’s most vulnerable.William Gee is a poet from the West Country who lives with and writes about chronic illness. His debut pamphlet Rheuma (Bad Betty Press, 2020) was selected as the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2020, and his work has appeared widely in publications including Poetry London and Tentacular and on BBC Radio 4.
£7.60
Central Avenue Publishing In the Middle of a Better World
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£15.30
University of Wales Press The History of Wales in Twelve Poems
Book SynopsisDown the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives the general reader a sense of the view to be seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects of the Welsh past into focus. Together, the poems give the flavour of a poetic tradition, both ancient and modern, that is internationally renowned for its distinction, demonstrating how Wales boast one of the oldest and yet continuing vibrant poetic traditions, the former in the Welsh language and the latter in English and bilingually.Trade Review"I can think of no more deft and authoritative introduction to the literatures of Wales than this gem of a book … tracing a path through the riches of the tradition with flair, clarity, and wit. This is a must-have guide for the curious and those new to the poetic panorama of Wales through the centuries." -- Gwyneth Lewis, National Poet of Wales 2005–6"With style, energy, and sureness of touch . . . we are guided through the complex story of Welsh identity from Maelgwn Gwynedd to Mark Drakeford, weaving political and cultural themes together in a vivid tapestry. There are very few pages that do not offer fresh insights, even for those who know their Welsh history well. The poems chosen are an excellent mix of the expected and the unexpected." -- Rowan Williams, Former Master, Magdalene College, CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Aneirin Y Gododdin (extract) Anon. Pais Dinogad Anon. Stafell Gynddylan (from Canu Heledd) Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch Marwnad Llywelyn ap Gruffudd Dafydd ap Gwilym Trafferth mewn tafarn Henry Vaughan The World Anon. Hen Benillion Ann Griffiths (Dolwar Fach) Wele'n sefyll rhwng y myrtwydd Gwenallt Y Meirwon Dylan Thomas Fern Hill Gillian Clarke Blodeuwedd Menna Elfyn Siapau o Gymru
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