Living in the Delta, Landeg White's Collected and New Poems, brings
together work from nine previous collections. Welsh by birth, White
is a citizen of the world, having lived and written and taught on
three continents. It is a Welsh tradition of course to be a
traveller, voyager and settler in all parts of the planet, and
White's poetry embodies this. It also reflects the ancient Welsh
tradition of the poet-scholar; he is a noted academic-editor,
translator and historian-an authority on Africa and Portuguese
literature. Fortunately for us he is a poet too, talented and
dedicated. The experience of reading his writing make you want to
read more-it is warm, humane, intelligent and immensely readable.
Commentators on his work are apt to use politically incorrect words
and phrases such as 'masterpiece' and 'major poet'. He is a
brilliant comic writer for instance, and can move in an instant
from sly wit to laugh-out-loud funny. Yet suddenly with a poem like
'African Incident' you are in the midst of tragedy.He is a moving
celebrant of love and family and community; a passionate,
meticulous observer of the natural world-it is difficult to think
of a living writer who is a more complete poet.
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