The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry. 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in translation. Roisin Kelly She is acutely aware of

She is acutely aware of those women whose stories have disappeared: women who have been marginalised or forgotten and symbolised perhaps by the anonymous "aproned figure" in "Settlers' Museum"… Lives are decoded here with extraordinary psychological insight and intimacy

reflecting back on life

gracious renaissance in California

love and disenchantment – simultaneously

Thematically fuelled with alcohol

The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry. 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in translation. Roisin Kelly She is acutely aware ofPoetry Book Society Recommended Translation Welsh is the oldest surviving Celtic language, and the most flourishing. For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth. And despite the global tendency towards homogenisation, Welsh poets have fought back, drawing inspiration from both the traditional and the contemporary to forge