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The Welsh language editor of \u003cem\u003ePoetry Wales\u003c\/em\u003e, he has published a prize-winning collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eAdennill Tir\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSefyll yn y Bwlch\u003c\/em\u003e, a volume of criticism.\n\nGrahame Davies reads his poems 'Revisiting' and 'Capital Bookshop, Cardiff':\n\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d99812Ouo_M[\/youtube] ","products":[{"product_id":"poetry-wales-summer-2010","title":"Poetry Wales - Summer 2010","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first issue in Volume 46 features an exclusive interview with new Oxford Professor of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Er Cof, In memory of Iwan Llwyd' by Robert Minhinnick\u003cbr\u003e'Cambrian Readjustments': Geoffrey Hill interviewed by Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley\u003cbr\u003e'Finding Space': Wendy Mulford interviewed by Alice Entwistle\u003cbr\u003e'Deflected forces of currents': Welsh modernist poetry by John Goodby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems by Lee Harwood, Laurence James, Geoffrey Hill, Stephen Knight, Helen Tookey, Kit Fan, Neetha Kunaratnam, Julian Stannard, John Lee Grenfell, John Barnie, Ian Cartland, Ben Mazer, Ralph Hawkins, Peter Hughes, Ivy Alvarez, Wendy Mulford, Ian McEwen, John Powell Ward, James Goodman, John Goodby, Byron Beynon, Helen Mort, Will Johnson, Marianne Burton, Julia Fiedorczuk translated by Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese, Grzegorz Wroblewski translated by Adam Zdrodowski, Judith Kazantzis, Stevie Krayer and David Foster Morgan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Barry on Philip Gross’s \u003ci\u003eThe Water Table\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarrie Etter on new work by Jasmine Donahaye (\u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait as Ruth\u003c\/i\u003e) and Gwyneth Lewis (\u003ci\u003eA Hospital Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eGrahame Davies on Eurig Salisbury’s \u003ci\u003eLlyfr Glas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Gwyn on translations of books by Chus Pato (\u003ci\u003em – tala\u003c\/i\u003e) and Ernest Farres (\u003ci\u003eEdward Hopper\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eJohn Taylor on Patrick McGuinness’s \u003ci\u003eJilted City\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eLyndon Davies on work by Elisabeth Bletsoe (\u003ci\u003ePharmacopeia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEarly Selected Works\u003c\/i\u003e) and Frances Presley (\u003ci\u003eLines of Sight\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seren","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041041444,"sku":"9770032220363","price":5.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_557728ce-12e4-48e9-b38a-295e863e23e8.jpeg?v=1752236545"},{"product_id":"lightning-beneath-the-sea","title":"Lightning Beneath the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLightning Beneath the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is a lively first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He brings a native warmth, an intimate, conversational tone, and a raised cultural awareness to these poems. He favours rhyme and meter in a number of memorable instances like ‘Capital Bookshop’ and ‘Valley Villanelle’; he can use a longer, narrative, free verse line as in ‘Dangerous’; and there are several ‘found’ poems as in the witty ‘The Complete Index of Welsh Emotions’. He observes other nations with the same keen, ironic eye that he casts on his own country and is as concerned with character and the vagaries of relationships as he is with wider cultural concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poems which brilliantly describe Welsh life in the capital.” – Peter Finch \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There’s a new world-view on our everyday lives here, overloaded with memorable images and phrases.” – Menna Elfyn\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“He has an incredible gift of expression.” – Meirion MacIntyre Huws\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Because Grahame Davies forever makes the perfect imperfect sense, the smallest things exploding into God or Language or the Sea Itself. That's the surprise of the poem, the ease of a great writer: that you don't notice the lightning as it emerges from the depths, but what it illuminates. No need to answer. Read the poems. Grahame Davies is a known treasure in Welsh, and now we English-speakers get to share the wealth.\"\u003cbr\u003eBob Holman\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrahame Davies\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Welsh poet, novelist, editor and literary critic, whose accolades include the Wales Book of the Year. His books include the cultural studies \u003cem\u003eThe Chosen People: Wales and the Jews\u003c\/em\u003e (2002) and \u003cem\u003eThe Dragon and the Crescent: Nine Centuries of Welsh Contact with Islam\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), the novel \u003cem\u003eEverything Must Change\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), and the psycho-geography\u003cem\u003e Real Wrexham\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), all published by Seren. 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With an American war cemetery, folk festival, iron age fort, evensong and naked bike ride, it is a place alone as former student Grahame Davies finds on his return.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seren","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31640062820430,"sku":"9781781725719","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/9781781725719.jpg?v=1752240136"},{"product_id":"a-darker-way","title":"A Darker Way","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Darker Way\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poems and songs by Grahame Davies which traces a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith. These poems are alert to both the superficiality and the seriousness of the everyday, often showing that human feelings are complicated and surprising.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRenowned not only as a poet, but also as a lyricist, Davies’ lyrics explore belief and unbelief, meaning and mystery, dealing with love and loss with both realism and compassion. The spiritual, even the supernatural, is never far from the surface in these poems, but Davies never settles for the simplistic. 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Taking in everything from its industrial past to its thriving arts scene, from Wrexham the town to Wrexham the city (as the county became in 2022), she’s out on the ground celebrating Wrexham in its city ‘era’, and as you’ve never seen it before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55515821703553,"sku":"9781911752028","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/9781911752028.jpg?v=1783605776"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/grahame-davies\/peter-finch.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}