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Words of Welsh Women

Posted on 15 February 2023 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 4 Comments

Gwerful Mechain was writing in the 1400s but I only discovered her in 2019, in Zoë Brigley Thompson’s glorious, full-on rendering of I’r Cedor for Modern Poetry in Translation. That poem opens this collection of half a millennium of Welsh…

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New snow, old words

Posted on 1 January 2020 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

New year, fresh snow. Fresh snow, old words. I first came across Gwerful Mechain this time last year through her most famous poem of all, translated as ‘Ode to My Cunt’ by Zoë Brigley Thompson for Modern Poetry in Translation.…

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