Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Advantages of the Older Man
Advantages of the Older Man
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Nofelig ysgafn, llawn hiwmor, cynhesrwydd ac angerdd am dynged gwraig o Abertawe a feddiannir gan ysbryd Dylan Thomas. Ond ai felly yn union y mae pethau?
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A light-hearted exploration of the fate of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. By former National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781721902
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781721902
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Advantages of the Older Man
- Awdur / Author
- Lewis, Gwyneth
- Current Price ex VAT
- £7.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £7.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2014-11-06
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 180 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm; depth 20 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Nofelau a Storïau ar Gyfer Oedolion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Adult Fiction and Stories (in English)
- FSC Status
- FSC certified (mixed sources) — C171272
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’ National Poet from 2005-06, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published eight books of poetry in Welsh and English. Chaotic Angels (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) brings together the poems from her three English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum. Her latest book is Sparrow Tree. Gwyneth wrote the six-foot-high words for the front of Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre. She won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod 2012. Her first collection in English, Parables & Faxes (Bloodaxe Books, 1995), won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward. Her second. Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe Books, 1998), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry. Sparrow Tree (Bloodaxe 2011) won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award. The BBC made a documentary of Zero Gravity, inspired by her astronaut cousin's voyage to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Gwyneth was part of the Poetry Society's Next Generation promotion. Gwyneth's first non-fiction book Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression (Harper Perennial 2002), was short listed for the Mind Book of the Year. Her adaptation of the play for BBC Radio 4 won a Mental Health in the Media award. Her second book of non-fiction, Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage (Fourth Estate, 2005) recounts a voyage made with her husband on a small boat from Cardiff to North Africa. She also wrote a retelling of the Blodeuwedd story, The Meat Tree, for Seren’s Mabinogion series.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
A light-hearted novella exploring the strange case of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. The woman, who works in the Dylan Thomas Centre, meets a rather different Dylan from the one she knows by repute, one who doesn’t really fit in with the ghosts of other poets in heaven and is desperate to train himself to join the fitter shades of the long distance runners instead. Her own life, which has been lonely and sad, is completely transformed by the encounter. Fluent and entertaining the story is written with all the confidence and panache you would expect from the former national poet, also a playwright and award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction. Alongside the humour there is a warmth and pathos, and some pithy observations on poets and poetry and the nature of fame.
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