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Hitting Game, The
Hitting Game, The
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad o gerddi egnïol a ffraeth Graham Clifford.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Graham Clifford's new collection, The Hitting Game , is a vibrant and witty debut.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781721650
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781721650
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Hitting Game, The
- Awdur / Author
- Clifford, Graham
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2014-05-15
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 64 pages
- 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
Graham Clifford was born in 1973 in Portsmouth and grew up in Wiltshire. He studied Fine Art and then Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He has been published in numerous literary magazines such as: Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Magma, and London Magazine. Graham has been commended in many competitions including The Arvon International and the Bridport Prize. Two short collections won first prize in the 2006 New Writer Poetry competition and the Biscuit Publishing Prize in 2008. He has also performed at venues and events including Hay on Wye, The Troubadour Café and the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. He is Head Teacher at Buxton School, Leyton.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
‘The Hitting Game’ is the first collection of poems by the London-based young poet Graham Clifford. The vibrancy of the poet’s voice and the immediacy of his claims upon our attention are clear. These poems provoke as well as delight. Characters arrive as ‘you’ in ‘Obvious Constellations’ ‘Amazing’ and ‘Trying’. Incidents are approached from disarmingly intimate and also entertainingly oblique angles. These are urban poems where nature appears like a strange intrusion: a flock of swallows ‘flick about dust like black flames’. There is also a gentleness and empathy, particularly in regards to children, as in ‘About my daughter’ where the word echoes: ‘the er-ing sound of doubt/mixed with ought.’ There is humour and pathos as in the poem about a chimp and her keeper. These are poems full of minor dramas and fresh enchantments.
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