Damian Walford Davies est un poète, écrivain et librettiste dont l'œuvre s'engage profondément dans les traditions littéraires tout en explorant des thèmes contemporains. Sa spécialisation académique dans le romantisme et les littératures galloises façonne un langage poétique et des récits complexes qui résonnent avec une profondeur intellectuelle et une puissance émotionnelle. Il crée une voix distinctive qui unit l'acuité savante à une expression artistique captivante.
Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France. These poems conjure his career, his rivalries and his remarkable secret missions in the saddle during World War 2 carrying forged identity documents that saved the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews.
In Damian Walford Davies's compellingly eerie new poetry collection, Docklands - A Ghost Story, a louche architect is haunted by the ghost of a young girl through the booming docklands of Victorian Cardiff and the bourgeois drawing rooms of the expanding city.
An authoritative introduction by a leading Dylan Thomas scholar to the nature, cultural background, achievement and critical reception of this major poetOCOs work."
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.