Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
The Claims Office
The Claims Office
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad cyntaf o farddoniaeth Dai George, llais newydd a ffres sy'n barod i ymgodymu â materion ym meysydd gweledigaeth wleidyddol, ffydd, teyrngarwch gyda ffraethineb a dychan.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The Claims Office is the startlingly good debut poetry collection from Dai George, a fresh, new voice who is willing to tackle such matters as political vision, faith and loyalty with wit and satire.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781720905
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781720905
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- The Claims Office
- Awdur / Author
- George, Dai
- Current Price ex VAT
- £8.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £8.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2013-10-10
- 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
'Dai George was born in Cardiff in 1986 and has studied in Bristol and New York, where he received a Masters in Fine Art from Columbia University's famous writing programme. Now living and teaching in London, but often back in Wales, he has had poems and critical articles published in The Guardian online, The Boston Review, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review and others. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including the Salt Book of Younger Poets and Best British Poetry (2011 and forthcoming in 2013). He is at work on a novel about the Gunpowder Plot, starring the playwright Ben Jonson as a central character.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Dai George's method is mostly straightforward narrative but the textures and imagery are often elaborate and strange. This rich surface is undercut by an interesting attitude: a mix of rebellious energy and unflinching satire. His ‘nature’ poems are often anti-nature poems, for example the darkly funny ‘Narwhal’. There are lively pieces about London and New York: ‘Metroland’ and ‘New York on a Shoestring’; skewed loves poems: ‘Plans with the Unmet Wife’. 'His works about his native Wales alternate between an edgy sarcasm and the elegiac tone of the collection's title poem, placing George very much in the lineage of poets like Duncan Bush, John Ormond, Mike Jenkins, Robert Minhinnick and R.S. Thomas; they display a deep suspicion of authority and a reluctance to conform to nationalist cliché. His spiky and tender character sketch of an old Valleys boxer, points to another influence, Gwyn Thomas. The generous forms and temperament of American poet C.K. Williams is another influence on this promising young author.
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