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A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh Poems of Romance, Desire and Devotion
A collection of Welsh love poems across history.
An exhilarating look at the many ways we love and are loved. Following his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems , M Wynn Thomas turns his attention to love poems from Wales and reflects on what they have to say on the age-old subject of love in its many and varied forms.
Featuring twelve pieces dating from the 14th century to the present, A Map of Love deliberately rejects clichéd verses with its poems of regret and of mourning, straight love and gay love, bawdy verses of passion and desire, and gentle meditations on motherhood and marriage. It features anonymous and lesser-known writers as well as household names such as Gillian Clarke and R. S. Thomas, and it includes a previously unpublished poem by Emyr Humphreys. With original illustrations by Ruth Jên Evans throughout, this short but powerful collection will appeal to anyone interested in people and their complex relationships.
An exhilarating look at the many ways we love and are loved. Following his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems , M Wynn Thomas turns his attention to love poems from Wales and reflects on what they have to say on the age-old subject of love in its many and varied forms.
Featuring twelve pieces dating from the 14th century to the present, A Map of Love deliberately rejects clichéd verses with its poems of regret and of mourning, straight love and gay love, bawdy verses of passion and desire, and gentle meditations on motherhood and marriage. It features anonymous and lesser-known writers as well as household names such as Gillian Clarke and R. S. Thomas, and it includes a previously unpublished poem by Emyr Humphreys. With original illustrations by Ruth Jên Evans throughout, this short but powerful collection will appeal to anyone interested in people and their complex relationships.
96 pages, Hardcover
Published August 5, 2023
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February 12, 2024This was very very sweet. I went to see M Wynn Thomas last year at a waterstones and his talk was beautiful. Happy almost Valentines day
September 26, 2024
A good mix of tender and raucous, from the motherly to the romantic.
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