Danger’s Daughter
A Review of The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry: 20th-Century Welsh-Language Poetry in Translation, eds. Menna Elfyn and John Rowlands The Bloodaxe [...]
An Interview with Menna Elfyn
Music, Translation, and Poetry Menna Elfyn is a world-renowned Welsh poet, novelist, playwright, and librettist. She has published six acclaimed poetry collections in Wales. Her bilingual volumes [...]
Advice on Adultery
The first rule is to pacify the wives if you’re presented as the golden hope at the office party. You’re pure of heart, but know the value of your youthful looks. Someone comments on your lovely [...]
The Welsh Language
I She has the cement that joins us as a people again. The foundations are hers, and beneath her the drains of our blood Run through her underground mystery. The rocks have been raised In order, a [...]
Eucalyptus
(I heard how the scent of the tree filled Baghdad during the Gulf War, its oil being used to cook with in the absence of electricity.) Before I saw it in Lisboa it was only a name to me — the [...]
