This substantial selection from the work of Paul Henry confirms
that he has, over two decades, been quietly building an ouvre of
beautifully crafted poems. And, by popular request, in the new
poemsA" section, rugby fans will find the three poems Henry was
commissioned to write for BBC2's 'Poetry in Motion', which
celebrated the Welsh national rugby team as they prepared for the
2008 rugby world cup. Born in Aberystwyth on the west coast of
Wales, into a family of musicians, music pervades his poems on
childhood, as do a large cast of aunts, neighbours, friends and
relations, many of whom appear in Dylan Thomas-like character
sketches. Henry doesn't pin his characters down but allows them to
flourish as archetypes, evokes their history and context with a
rare empathy and a lyrical lightness of touch. Some of his earliest
portrait-poems are set against the Breconshire villages where Henry
lived from his mid teens, a move south to Newport, Gwent, inspires
poems about the undulating river Usk and the post-industrial
cityscape and its impact on people's lives. The individual human
voice, the ragged vagaries of the heart and soul, the joys and
sorrows of family life feature here but this poetry is personal
without being confessional, preferring tender observation to
sensationalism or didacticism. For a poet well-known for one-page
lyrics it is instructive to be reminded of several of his longer
sequences, such as those in 'The Shell House' which vary in tone
per section, much like a concerto or musical piece.
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