Welsh is the oldest surviving Celtic language, and the most
flourishing. For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have
expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in
this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth.
And despite the global tendency towards homogenisation, Welsh poets
have fought back, drawing inspiration from both the traditional and
the contemporary to forge a new and rainbow-like modernism. This
wide-ranging anthology of 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in
English translation - by far the most comprehensive of its kind -
will be a revelation for most readers. It will dispel the romantic
images of Welsh poets as bards or druids and blow away any
preconceived mists of Celtic twilight. This poetry is full of
vitality, combining old craftsmanship and daring innovation, humour
and angst, the oral and the literary. The selection brings together
poets of every hue: from magisterial figures like T Gwynn Jones, R
Williams Parry and Saunders Lewis to folk poets such as Alun Cilie
and Dic Jones; from cerebral poets Pennar Davies and Bobi Jones to
popular entertainers Geraint Lovgreen and Ifor ap Glyn. There are
Chaplinesque poets, rebellious and subversive ones, lyrical voices
and storytellers. The variety is enormous: from Welsh performance
poetry to song lyrics; from the wry social comment of Grahame
Davies to the contemporary parables of Gwyneth Lewis, who writes
different kinds of poems in Welsh and English. This exuberant
chorus of voices from the margins of Europe proves that poetry in
this minority language is far from stagnant. Poetry Book Society
Recommended Translation.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
May 2003 |
| First published: |
October 2003 |
| Editors: |
Menna Elfyn
• John Rowland
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
448 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-85224-549-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-85224-549-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781852245498 |
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