When is a translation not a translation? When it’s a version. Or “poems after.” I like that. They’re definitely after, as Dafydd ap Gwilym was writing poems seven centuries ago. Now Matthew Francis has written those new versions. He compares…
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Tagged with: books, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Faber, Kishan Rajani, Matthew Francis, Poetry, Translation, Welsh
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Posted in books, translation
Lament for the Fallen
I am writing this as Afghanistan descends once more into horror. A tiny Welsh part of me still thinks “the bloody English colonials, look what they started and didn’t finish – again.” And you could read the Gododdin this way,…
Tagged with: Aneirin, books, Cynghanedd, Faber, Gillian Clarke, Gododdin, Hay Festival, Poetry, Translation, Welsh
Posted in books, history, literature, poetry
Posted in books, history, literature, poetry
