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In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime
occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage
one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is
locked inside - a man who has been stabbed in the back.Jimmy
London, a newspaper reporter, is first on the scene. He is quick on
the trail for clues - and agrees to pool his knowledge with
Inspector Shelley of Scotland Yard, who is holidaying in the area.
Mistrustful of the plodding local policeman, Inspector Beech, the
two men launch their own investigation into the most baffling
locked-room mystery - a case that could reignite Jimmy's flagging
career, but one that exposes him to great danger.
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.
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