Bondo is Menna Elfyn's latest collection in Welsh and English. Her title means eaves in Welsh, referring to poems about getting close to language as sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically over a number of years. These meditative poems began simply as a personal engagement with the grief of Aberfan, expressing solidarity with a nation's wound. Bondo is also the voice which echoes the role of the Welsh bard as remembrancer. Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. Like her previous Bloodaxe titles, Bondo is a bilingual Welsh-English edition. Again, the facing English translations are by leading Welsh poets, in this case Elin ap Hywel, Gillian Clarke, Damian Walford Davies and Robert Minhinnick. It is her first new book since Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007 and the later collection Murmur (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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Information

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

Year

2017

ISBN

9781780373898

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Poetry

Index

Literature

Cover
Title
Contents
Niwlo | Misting
Bondo | Benediction of Eaves
Allanfa | Exit
Cloig serch | Love Knot
Y fodrwy ar fys | The Ring
Ysgol Gân y Drudwns | Singing School for Starlings
Marwnad i ieithoedd | Marwnad for languages
Y Gwrthdystiwr | Peacemaker
Llawlyfyr Arteithio Tyner | A tender form of torture
Y Samariad | The Samaritan
Gyrru trwy Gariad | Love Rides High
Y gwir yn erbyn nodwydd greithio | The truth against needles
Neb-ach | Nebbish
Hedd Wyn: Y Blotyn Du | The Black Stain
Atgo’ | Reminiscence
Aberfan: Cerddi’r datod | Aberfan: Songs of Unravelling
| Notes on the Poems
| Notes on & by the Translators
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