The Art of Losing - Twelve Poems on Grief and Consolation — Twelve Welsh Poems on Grief and Consolation

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Casgliad pwerus a theimladwy o gerddi yn archwilio'r profiad dynol o alar.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A powerful and moving collection of poems exploring the all-too-human experience of grief.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Prefatory Note No Toying With Death Lewys Glyn Cothi, Un mab oedd degan imi A Young Moon Entombed Robert Williams/ Robert ap Gwilym Ddu, Och gur! pwy fesur pa faint A Black Trench of Loss R. Williams Parry, Y bardd trwm dan bridd tramor Bomb Damage Alun Lewis, Raiders’ Dawn Funeral Strange Menna Elfyn, Angladd Haunted Landscape Ruth Bidgood, All Souls’ The Atrocity of Aberfan Leslie Norris, Elegy for David Beynon A Grim Sir Galahad Tony Conran, Elegy for the Welsh dead, in the Falkland Islands, 1982 Sweeping Up the Heart John Ormond [Thomas], After a death Language Death Gwyneth Lewis, Roedd y diwedd yn erchyll The Final Voyage Rowan Williams, Deathship No Sunlight Guest Dannie Abse, The Violin Player

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

M. Wynn Thomas Professor of English, and Emyr Humphreys Professor of Welsh Writing in English, at Swansea University.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

This book is a follow-up to M. Wynn Thomas's immensely popular The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh Poems of romance, desire and devotion, and Poems from the Soul: Twelve of the Great Hymns of Wales. This book explores how poets have expressed the wide and varied emotions and feelings which arise from the universal experience of grief. This book includes poems from the medieval period to the modern day and offers a guiding hand to those experiencing grief and loss.