Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022. Wales's best-loved
contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered
environment, returns to prose in Roots Home. As in At the Source
(2008), she does something unusual with form. She combines two
elements. Seven vivid essay-meditations, informed by (among others)
Dylan Thomas, George Herbert and W. B. Yeats, explore the ways in
which poetry bears witness to what is and what might be, presence
and transcendence in a threatened world. The meditations precede a
journal that runs from January 2018 to December 2020, concluding
with a poem entitled 'Winter Solstice' - three years of living
close to animals, mountains, and (in particular) trees, in human
intimacy and lockdown. 'Listen! They are whispering / now while the
world talks, / and the ice melts, / and the seas rise. / Look at
the trees!...' This is necessary work. As she declares in 'Why I
Write', the first meditation in Roots Home: 'Morning begins with my
journal. I write in it most days, though not every day. It is
friend and listener, to record, remember, rage and rhapsodise, a
place for requiem and celebration. Words hold detail which might be
forgotten - the way the hare halted as it crossed the lawn, the
field where a rainbow touched down across the valley, the different
voices of wind, or water, the close and distant territorial arias
of May blackbirds.'
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