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Boat Called Annalise, A
Boat Called Annalise, A
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Ganwyd Lynne Hjelmgaard yn Efrog Newydd, ond y mae hefyd wedi byw yng Ngwlad Denmarc, Rhufain, Paris a Llundain. Mae ei chasgliad o gerddi A Boat Called Annalise yn cofnodi'r blynyddoedd y treuliodd hi a'i gŵr ar gwch yn hwylio i'r Caribî ac yn ôl, a llwydda i gyfleu, mewn modd hynod hardd, fywyd ar y môr, natur freuddwydiol y trofannau a dyddiau hapus priodas.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The poet Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in New York and has lived in Denmark, Rome, Paris and London. A Boat Called Annalise records the years she and her husband spent sailing on a boat to the Caribbean and back. The author beautifully evokes life at sea, the dream-like nature of the tropics, and the halcyon days of a marriage.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781723104
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781723104
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Boat Called Annalise, A
- Awdur / Author
- Hjelmgaard, Lynne
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2016-02-18
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Editor
- Wack, Amy
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 64 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 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)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in New York City and lives in London. She taught Creative Art for children in various schools and institutions before she started writing poetry. She left the States in 1990 for the second time and has been living permanently in the UK since 2011. As a result of crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat with her husband she wrote the poems that were later collected in Manhattan Sonnets. After her husband died in 2006, she received a residency grant for the Danish Academy in Rome where she wrote poems that later appeared in The Ring. Her new book, A Boat Called Annalise, is forthcoming from Seren.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
About Seren: Seren is an independent publisher specialising in English-language writing from Wales. Seren’s wide-ranging list includes poetry, fiction, translation, biography, art and history. Seren’s authors are shortlisted for –and win – major literary prizes across Britain and America. Publishers of: 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize: Significance by Jo Mazelis 2014 Costa Poetry Awards Prize-Winner: My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards 2014 T S Eliot Shortlisted: Fauverie by Pascale Petit 2014 Wales Book of the Year, Fiction Category Winner: The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
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