Bondo (Paperback, Bilingual 'facing page' edition)

Bondo is Menna Elfyn's latest collection in Welsh and English. Her title means eaves in Welsh, referring to poems about getting close to language as sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically over a number of years. These meditative poems began simply as a personal engagement with the grief of Aberfan, expressing solidarity with a nation's wound. Bondo is also the voice which echoes the role of the Welsh bard as remembrancer. Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. Like her previous Bloodaxe titles, Bondo is a bilingual Welsh-English edition. Again, the facing English translations are by leading Welsh poets, in this case Elin ap Hywel, Gillian Clarke, Damian Walford Davies and Robert Minhinnick. It is her first new book since Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007 and the later collection Murmur (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

General

Imprint:	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Menna Elfyn
Translators:	Elin Hywel • Gillian Clarke • Robert Minhinnick • Damian Walford Davies
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
Edition:	Bilingual 'facing page' edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-78037-388-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-78037-388-0
Barcode:	9781780373881

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