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Murmur (Welsh Edition)
Menna Elfyn
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Description for Murmur (Welsh Edition)
Paperback. Latest collection from Welsh-language poet Menna Elfyn presented in a bilingual format with English translations by leading poets from Wales. Translator(s): Hywel, Elinor ap; Clarke, Gillian; Henry, Paul. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 206.
Menna Elfyn's collection Murmur is full of murmurings – in English and Welsh – 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 ... Read more
Menna Elfyn's collection Murmur is full of murmurings – in English and Welsh – 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249441
SKU
V9781852249441
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Ref
99-15
About Menna Elfyn
Menna Elfyn is one of the foremost Welsh-language writers. As well as being an award-winning poet, she has published plays, libretti and children's novels, and co-edited The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry (2003) with John Rowlands. Her books include two bilingual selections, Eucalyptus: Detholiad o Gerddi / Selected Poems 1978-1994 (Gomer Press, 1995), and Perfect Blemish: New & Selected ... Read more
Reviews for Murmur (Welsh Edition)
'Menna Elfyn is the firebird of the Welsh language, bright, indomitably modern and as undestructible as the phoenix. She gives hope to all writers in lesser spoken languages that great things can rise from the ashes' - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. 'Elfyn is a poet of healing - both compassionate and celebratory. Like a soul doctor she questions and probes, like ... Read more