The Bloodaxe Book Of Modern Welsh Poetry
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The Bloodaxe Book Of Modern Welsh Poetry
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Author : Menna Elfyn
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Release Date : 2003
The Bloodaxe Book Of Modern Welsh Poetry written by Menna Elfyn and has been published by Bloodaxe Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Poetry categories.
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 Løvgreen 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.
Blind Man S Kiss
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Author : Menna Elfyn
language : cy
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Blind Man S Kiss written by Menna Elfyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Poetry categories.
When Menna Elfyn published her bilingual selected poems in 1995, Tony Conran called her 'the first Welsh poet in fifteen hundred years to make a serious attempt to have her work known outside Wales'. Her second bilingual volume, Cell Angel, was hailed by the same critic as the most significant collection of Welsh poetry for forty years. The metaphysical energies initiated in Cell Angel find full liberation in this, her third bilingual collection, whose extraordinary range of subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place Menna Elfyn, effortlessly, among Europe's leading poets. Hers is a poetry of daringly imaginative leaps, exploring both inner and outer landscapes, taking exuberant liberties with language, and presenting her translators with formidable challenges. Her questing eye, affection-ately critical of many domestic presumptions, restlessly interrogates horizons that others have ignored or taken as read, from the mutating social landscapes of home to the concrete cliffs of Manhattan or the culinary byways of Vietnam. But wherever she finds herself - and as a reader in demand all over the world, she is the most travelled of all Welsh poets - Menna Elfyn never loses sight of Wales.
Murmur
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Author : Menna Elfyn
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
Release Date : 2012
Murmur written by Menna Elfyn and has been published by Bloodaxe Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Poetry categories.
Menna Elfyn's new collection in Welsh and English is full of murmurings, such as the need 'to walk the earth as if there's a baby sleeping next door'. "Murmur" is a poetry of meditation, from the reverberations of dead poets to murmurs of the heart which force the poet to dwell on the irregular beat of the poet's lot. Distant sounds too are heard from captivity in a sequence of poems about the last princess of Wales, Catrin Glyndwr, daughter of Owain Glyndwr, who was incarcerated with her children in the Tower of London for over two years until their mysterious death. Fittingly enough, "mur-mur" in Welsh also means "wall-wall", so the book's leitmotif is one that stresses the distance between words and worlds - and the way poetry is a language beyond language which we can sometimes only grasp through sound. Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. Murmur is her first new book since "Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007", and includes translations of poems by Welsh folk hero and poet of peace Waldo Williams (1901-71) which challenge the notion of the Celtic melancholy and testify to a 'hesitant hope'. Her own poems have facing English translations by leading Welsh poets: Elin ap Hywel, Joseph Clancy, Gillian Clarke, Damian Walford Davies and Paul Henry.
Bondo
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Author : Menna Elfyn
language : cy
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Release Date : 2017
Bondo written by Menna Elfyn and has been published by Bloodaxe Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Wales categories.
Bondo is Menna Elfyn's latest collection in Welsh and English. Her title means eaves in Welsh, referring to poems about getting close to language as sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically over a number of years. These meditative poems began simply as a personal engagement with the grief of Aberfan, expressing solidarity with a nation's wound. Bondo is also the voice which echoes the role of the Welsh bard as remembrancer. Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. Like her previous Bloodaxe titles, Bondo is a bilingual Welsh-English edition. Again, the facing English translations are by leading Welsh poets, in this case Elin ap Hywel, Gillian Clarke, Damian Walford Davies and Robert Minhinnick. It is her first new book since Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007 and the later collection Murmur (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
Cell Angel
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Author : Menna Elfyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Cell Angel written by Menna Elfyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with English poetry categories.
The book's title is double-edged: her cell is not just prison but also a place for contemplation, while her angel is both Eastern and Christian. She draws on Tibetan Tulku thought as well as Indian Boddhisattva. Menna Elfyn is one of the most significant poets currently writing in Wales. Her conspicuous moral and political commitments, international in scope, are always underwritten by her prior commitment to language. She has read world-wide and twice was imprisoned for publicly protesting the decline in the use of Welsh language. In 1995 she wrote a play on the silenced voices of the Mabinogi.
Perfect Blemish
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Author : Menna Elfyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Perfect Blemish written by Menna Elfyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Poetry categories.
This bilingual edition of Elfyn's later poetry includes all her work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man's Kiss / Cusan Dyn Dall (2001), as well as the first English translations of Perffaith Nam (2005) and a selection of new poems. The Welsh originals in this book have facing English translations by Elin ap Hywel, Joseph Clancy, Gillian Clarke, Tony Conran, Nigel Jenkins and Robert Minhinnick.
Chaotic Angels
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Author : Gwyneth Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Release Date : 2005
Chaotic Angels written by Gwyneth Lewis and has been published by Bloodaxe Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Poetry categories.
Gwyneth Lewis is a bilingual virtuoso, publishing separate collections in English and Welsh. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her first three English collections, Parables & Faxes (1995), Zero Gravity (1998) and Keeping Mum (2003).
The Bloodaxe Book Of Contemporary Women Poets
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Author : Jeni Couzyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Bloodaxe Book Of Contemporary Women Poets written by Jeni Couzyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Poetry categories.
Large selections - with essays on their work - by eleven poets: Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, Kathleen Raine, Fleur Adcock, Anne Stevenson, Elizabeth Jennings, Denise Levertov, Elaine Feinstein, Jenny Joseph, Ruth Fainlight and Jeni Couzyn. GCE set text.
The Bloodaxe Book Of Contemporary Indian Poets
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Author : Jeet Thayil
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Release Date : 2008
The Bloodaxe Book Of Contemporary Indian Poets written by Jeet Thayil and has been published by Bloodaxe Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Poetry categories.
Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s - but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many countries as well as in India. It is a groundbreaking global anthology of 70 poets writing in a common language responding to shared traditions, different cultures and contrasting lives in the changing modern world.Thayil's starting-point is Nissim Ezekiel, the first important modern Indian poet after Tagore, who published his first collection in London in 1952. Aiming for "verticality" rather than chronology, Thayil's anthology charts a poetry of astonishing volume and quality. It pays homage to major influences, including Ezekiel, Dom Moraes and Arun Kolatkar, who died within months of each other in 2004. It rediscovers forgotten figures such as Lawrence Bantleman and Gopal Honnalgere, and it serves as an introduction to the poets of the future.The book also shows that many Indian poets were mining the rich vein of 'chutnified' (Salman Rushdie's word) Indian English long before novelists like Rushdie and Upamanyu Chatterjee started using it in their fiction. It explains why Pankaj Mishra and Amit Chaudhuri have said that Indian poetry in English has a longer, more distinguished tradition than Indian fiction in English. The Indian poet now lives and works in New York, New Delhi, London, Itanagar, Bangalore, Berkeley, Goa, Sheffield, Lonavala, Montana, Aarhus, Allahabad, Hongkong, Montreal, Melbourne, Calcutta, Connecticut, Cuttack and various other global corridors. While some may have little in common in terms of culture (a number of the poets have never lived in India), this anthology shows how they are all bound by the intimate histories of a shared English language.
Modern Welsh Poetry
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Author : Keidrych Rhys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Modern Welsh Poetry written by Keidrych Rhys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.