The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry

by Menna Elfyn (Editor), John Rowlands (Editor)

This wide-ranging anthology of 20th-century Welsh poetry, a Poetry Book Society Recommended 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. 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 L$ovgreen and Ifor ap Glyn. The variety is enormous: from Welsh performance poetry to song to the contemporary parables of Gwyneth Lewis. This exuberant chorus of voices from the margins of Europe proves that poetry in this minority language is far from stagnant.

Genres: Poetry

450 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Todd B Stevens]

"Sun sobered; a respite came
to tame a heart that's starving
I go, I negate the song.
Bridled, down Dyffryn Aman."

Derec Llwyd Moran is rather brilliant and that just scratches the surface in this anthology.