Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Beast
Beast
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Mae bwystfilod chwedlonol a theuluol yn crwydro hyd corsydd a gweunydd Beast Pascale Petit. Mae ysbrydion y gwyllt yn aflonyddu ar ranbarth Camargue yn Provence, y Causses calchfaen a cheunentydd y Languedoc, coedwigoedd teigr Indiaidd, coedwig law yr Amazon, a'i chartref ger Rhos Bodmin yng Nghernyw.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit's Beast. These spirits of the wild haunt the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian tiger forests, the Amazon rainforest, and her home by Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781780377377
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781780377377
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Beast
- Awdur / Author
- Petit, Pascale
- Current Price ex VAT
- £12.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £12.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2025-04-24
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd.
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 112 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm; depth 10 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Beirdd Unigol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Individual Poets (in English)
- FSC Status
- No FSC or PEFC logo/certification declared
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
An estranged father reappears as a hunter, while Maman is an orb spider or a grand piano; both are predators. And there are earthly beasts – wild horses and bulls, lammergeiers, bee-eaters and nightingales, remnants of a vanishing natural world. Beast asks if survival is possible in an abusive family and on an abused home planet, with trials such as climate change, childhood trauma and war. These poems face difficult challenges and insist that making art is an act of love and hope, and there are joyful lyrics celebrating the ineffable beauty of endangered species. 'Tiger Girl…pushes deep into the wilder places of the forest and the human heart. It shimmers with the colours of bee-eaters and flycatchers and rages at the darker regions of environmental exploitation and cruelty… alarming, mythic, beautiful…' – Alexandra Harris, chair of Forward Prize judges ‘I think this might be her best book so far because of this complexity of a family in crisis against a planet in crisis – she’s very much a poet of the environment… She has a powerful, imagistic authority over the landscape. It’s a very moving, powerful book.’ – Daljit Nagra, reviewing Tiger Girl on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row 2018 Ondaatje Prize judges Tahmima Anam, Eva Hoffman and Daljit Nagra on Mama Amazonica: 'Mama Amazonica is an unforgettable read - rich with metaphor, the poems explode on the page with the multiple narratives of motherhood, illness, pain, and redemption. All of this set in a rainforest that is both mythic and vividly alive. This is a book that feels almost magical in its unlikeliness, and that for me is what made it a clear winner.’ – Tahmima Anam ‘Rarely has the personal and environmental lament found such imaginative fusion, such outlandish and shocking expression that is at once spectacularly vigorous, intimate and heartbroken.’ – Daljit Nagra ‘In Pascale Petit’s evocations, the Amazon rainforest comes alive, with human characters as much a part of nature as the creatures and plants living there – alluring and frightening, violent and vulnerable, dangerous and endangered. A feat of imaginative intensity, this is also an act of reckoning and reparation, in which deep empathy for a disturbed mother is transmuted into the exacting beauty of poetic language.’ – Eva Hoffman
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