Menna Elfyn Livres

One of the finest Welsh-language poets writing today.""-World Literature Today. When Menna Elfyn published her bilingual selected poems in 1995, she was hailed as the first Welsh poet in fifteen hundred years to make a serious attempt to have her work known outside Wales. This is a poetry of daringly imaginative leaps, exploring both inner and outer landscapes, taking exuberant liberties with language, and presenting her translators with formidable challenges. Her questing eye, affectionately critical of many domestic presumptions, restlessly interrogates horizons that others have ignored or taken as read, from the mutating social landscapes of home to the concrete cliffs of Manhattan or the culinary byways of Vietnam. But wherever she finds herself-and as a reader she has been in demand all over the world-Elfyn never loses sight of Wales.

This is a bilingual collection of poetry by Menna Elfyn.

Latest collection from Welsh-language poet Menna Elfyn presented in a bilingual format with English translations by leading poets from Wales.

Menna Elfyn is Wales's leading Welsh-language poet. Bondo is the latest of her collections to be published in Welsh and English at the same time: so there is no separate Welsh-language edition.

This is an affectionate and yet critical biography of Eluned Phillips (1914 – 2009), an unsung heroine of Welsh literature, who led an incredible life at a time of great change – taking her from rural Carmarthenshire to bohemian Paris and urbane Los Angeles across the majority of the 20th Century. Eluned was a controversial figure, a passionate woman who ignited passionate responses in others, not always to her own benefit! She was only the second women to have won the National Eisteddfod crown and the only woman ever to have won it twice (1967 and 1983). Eluned Phillips was unusual among Welsh writers of her generation in that she embraced a bohemian lifestyle which took her to pre-war London and Paris, where she made the acquaintance of such major artists as Augustus John, Dylan Thomas, Edith Piaf, Jean Cocteau, Maurice Chevalier and Pablo Picasso, the last of whom showed her the unfinished ‘Guernica’ with the paint still wet on the canvas.