Francis Wing

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ISBN: 978-0-571-35863-2
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 72 Seiten

Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties, and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead 'sleep on the wing'.

Matthew Francis has lived in Wales for twenty-five years and his poetic version of the Welsh national epic The Mabinogi has been widely acclaimed. He has published six collections with Faber, and edited W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems. Hisother work includes a collection of short stories and three novels. He lives in West Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Francis, Matthew