I chose to adapt ‘Lynx mewn sw’ because it parallels my late father’s situation towards the end of his life. Mary was her great-great-great-grandmother, and the letter was passed down through the maternal side of Ms Schultz's family. This is one of two poems I chose to enter for The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation in 2010. Sheers’ verse-drama Pink Mist was performed to great critical acclaim at the Bristol Old Vic, while his BAFTA-nominated film-poem, The Green Hollow, dealt with the tragedy of the Aberfan disaster.

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Like Holborow, he is a Swansea poet, and although this supports suggestions of a vibrant poetry scene going on in the city, he is very much a different kettle of fish. If you are eligible to use the BBC’s iPlayer app, you can listen to a half-hour Radio Four programme about Hedd Wyn here. The word for hell had a sharp edgePut on it by the hand of the windHoning, honing with a shrill soundDay and night.For those that are studying GCSE English Literature with the WJEC examining body, the course contains a list of Welsh poems, taken from Poetry 1900-2000: One Hundred Poets From Wales, to analyze and compare how the poets present the theme of Wales and being Welsh. He was from Powys but is understood to have moved north where he lived for most of his time as a bard.

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Much of the early verse survived through oral tradition until it could be collected and recorded in the 12th century. More of my adaptations of Myrddin ap Dafydd’s verses (and those of other poets) accompany Martin Turtle’s photographs of Llŷn in the bilingual book Hud a Lledrith Llŷn / Llŷn a Magical Place.American readers may have come across the idea of these complex Welsh forms in books like Miller Williams’s Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms and Lewis Turco’s The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics. So enthusiastic was Bunting about the Welsh meters that he wrote at length about them to his friend Louis Zukofsky.

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Rhyme is an integral aspect of Welsh poetic forms and so, unlike the haiku, each of a verse’s three lines is monorhymed, that is they end in the same rhyme. The poem is an elegy to the warriors that gave their lives in an unsuccessful attempt by the Gododdin tribe to take back Catterick, a village in Yorkshire, from a Germanic tribe some time in 595 AD.

A reader can begin anywhere and, turning the piece, experience a continuous flow of tender thoughts. After completing his love note Pugh folded it up, sealed it with a dab of wax, and most likely delivered it personally to Mary's home.

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from the Welsh)May they stumble, stage by stageOn an endless PilgrimageDawn and dusk, mile after mileAt each and every step a stileAt each and every step withalMay they catch their feet and fallAt each and every fall they takeMay a bone within them breakAnd may the bone that breaks withinNot be, for variations sakeNow rib, now thigh, now arm, now shinbut. Rhian Edwards is a wonderfully exciting voice in Welsh poetry, and perhaps the most dynamic and enjoyable performance poet you will ever be lucky enough to come across. His poems feature variations on the cynghanedd, a Welsh form using consonantal echo, and often rhyme, within the unit of the line.There are four types of cynghanedd or metres: lusg (echoing harmony), draws (bridging harmony), sain (sonorous harmony) and groes (criss-cross harmony).