Shape of a Forest, The

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Casgliad o gerddi grymus sy'n cynnig arolwg o brofiadau bywyd gan rychwantu cenedlaethau a chroesi cyfandiroedd.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award, the Roland Mathais Award and the Welsh Book of the Year Award, The Shape of a Forest is a powerful survey of life and of human experience that spans centuries and the continents.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Jemma L. King teaches literature and creative writing at Aberystwyth University where she also completed her doctoral thesis. Winner of the Terry Hetherington Award for young writers in 2011, she has published her creative and academic work internationally. She is a founding member of the Centre for Women, Writing and Literary Culture and is a reviewer of contemporary literature for numerous publications.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

‘beautifully structured poetry – unsettling, unnerving, illuminating.’ Jane MacNamee ‘A collection of great linguistic simplicity, and ornate strength... inspiring’ Bare Fiction ‘The author of this powerful poetry debut...is one to watch closely ... The Shape of a Forest [is] both fleeting and resonant, both passionate and quiet, and I would advise you to get your hands on it.’ New Welsh Review ‘The poet’s skill here and throughout is to use language sparingly, yet tugging at every chord...striking through pleasant frameworks so that, as poetry should, it begs us to question the ever-changing state of the world we share with the rest of nature.’ Wales Arts Review Haunting, distinctive, sophisticated and sensual, The Shape of a Forest moves evocatively from the historical to the contemporary: Genghis Kahn surveys his territory whilst Amelia Earhart disappears into myth. The Belvedere Apollo is dug up heralding the onset of The Renaissance as the Pendle witches are hung in Lancashire, and in tsunami-struck Japanese gardens and New York hotel rooms, lives are loosened like milk teeth. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award, the Roland Mathais Award & the Welsh Book of the Year Award.