Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
The Green Month
The Green Month
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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Delightful new versions of a great Welsh medieval poet's lyrics - intimate, urgent and timeless.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780571394548
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780571394548
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- The Green Month
- Awdur / Author
- Francis, Matthew
- Current Price ex VAT
- £14.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £14.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2025-10-23
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 68 pages
- Size
- 129 × 198 mm; depth 12 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)
- FSC Status
- FSC certified (mixed sources) — C114687
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Matthew Francis has lived in Wales for twenty-five years and his poetic version of the Welsh national epic The Mabinogi has been widely acclaimed. He has published six collections with Faber, and edited W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems. His other work includes a collection of short stories and three novels.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Dafydd ap Gwilym, the pre-eminent poet of Wales, explored love, desire and the natural world with startling frankness and virtuoso wit. In a sequence freely adapted from Dafydd's work, Matthew Francis brings him to life for the modern English-speaking reader: as he waits in the woods for his lover, ogles the girls in church or causes chaos during a midnight assignation. Plants, birds and animals are fondly invoked while weather and the elements - wind, waves, fog and ice - play their part. Passionate in his treatment of sexual themes, Dafydd is equally ready to make fun of his own susceptibility. The Green Month introduces an original and lovable poet who speaks freshly to us from deep in our islands’ past.
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