{"title":"Rhian Edwards","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Bridgend, Wales, Rhian Edwards is a poet and musician. Her pamphlet, \u003cem\u003eParade the Fib\u003c\/em\u003e, (Tall Lighthouse) was awarded the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet choice for Autumn 2008. Her poems have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Wales\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eLondon Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. She has performed her work in over 300 stage, radio and festival performances world-wide\u003cspan\u003e including the \u003cem\u003eVerb\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Radio 3\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLatitude\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLedbury\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreen Man \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eEdinburgh Fringe\u003c\/em\u003e festival. Her poetry collection\u003cem\u003e Clueless Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e (Seren, 2012) has been shortlisted for the Best First Collection in the 2012 Forward Poetry Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWebsite: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rhianedwards.co.uk\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.rhianedwards.co.uk\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRhian Edwards performing 'Tiptoe' at Penny's Open Mic, St Marks Place, New York, 10 May 2011.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \r\n\u003cobject style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E2zUoDgxPCE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"\u003e\r\n\u003cparam name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E2zUoDgxPCE\"\u003e\r\n\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E2zUoDgxPCE\"\u003e\r\n\u003c\/object\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"poetry-wales-winter-201011","title":"Poetry Wales - Winter 2010\/11","description":"\u003cb\u003eFeatures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre Joris and Jean Portante - Whales, Ghosts and Nomads: a Dialogue on Multilingual Poetry\u003cbr\u003eRichard Gwyn - The Green Whale of Summer: Reflections on Latin American Poetry, Part 1\u003cbr\u003eTiffany Atkinson - The Uses of Difficulty: writing in the margins of W.S. Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry in Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatherine M Hedeen translated José Ángel Leyva and Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Richard Gwyn translates Nicanor Parra, Claribel Alegría, Ernesto Cardenal, Alejandra Pizarnik, Pierre Joris translates Jean Portante.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTamar Yoseloff, Peter Robinson, Carrie Etter, Aneurin Karadog translated by Eurig Salisbury, Dylan Jones, David Sergeant, Jean Portante, Pierre Joris, Tishani Doshi, Lucy Hamilton, Zoë Brigley, Matt Bryden, Lamorna Elmer, John Hartley Williams, Leslie McMurtry, Sheenagh Pugh, Rhian Edwards, Lucy Burnett, David Hart, Gillian Allnutt, Robert Nisbet, Brett Evans, Eoghan Walls, Steven Hitchens. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJackie Wills on Paul Henry and Carol Rumens\u003cbr\u003eJohn Goodby on John James \u003cbr\u003eAlison Brackenbury on Tim Liardet, Fiona Sampson and Lyndon Davies\u003cbr\u003eClaire Crowther on Steffan Jones and Naomi Foyle \u003cbr\u003eJohn Taylor on Maria do Cebreiro and Kristiina Ehin\u003cbr\u003eEurig Salisbury on Aled Jones Williams\u003cbr\u003eLeo Mellor on John Goodby, Childe Roland and Angel Exhaust\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seren","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041019088,"sku":"9770032220363","price":5.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_824e35b6-4bb5-4e68-8387-34273e40dcf1.jpeg?v=1752236547"},{"product_id":"clueless-dogs","title":"Clueless Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 Wales Book of the Year, the People's Choice Award and the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in this collection recall imaginative escapes from a fraught childhood in Bridgend, through chronicles of teenage lust and student rivalries, to the damaged peers and tense situations of adult life. Full of verve, humour and spiky syntax, her work has a winning, unflinching honesty and intensity that have quickly garnered many admirers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Supremely crafted... inhabited by something far rarer, an unerring ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime Out\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She captures and subverts cliche for poetry's purpose, lets sound ring in the lines, weaves common speech with lyrical language...\"\u003cbr\u003eGillian Clarke\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"The unique voice lies in the music of the language, a distinctly un-English sound, often in a minor key, elegiac but with unexpected leaps of the imagination.\"\u003cbr\u003eHugo Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rhian Edwards makes the language sing and dance. Join her campaign for the liberation of poetry from all that is dry, stuffy, insincere and boring…” \u003cbr\u003eChristopher Reid \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] astounding Welsh poet with performances that get you in the emotional gut…” \u003cbr\u003eIan McMillan on BBC Radio 3 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Bridgend, \u003cstrong\u003eRhian Edwards\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and singer-songwriter. Her pamphlet \u003cem\u003eParade the Fib\u003c\/em\u003e (Tall Lighthouse, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poems have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Wales\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eLondon Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. She has performed in over 300 stage, radio and festival performances worldwide, including at the Edinburgh Fringe, Ledbury and Latitude Festivals, and recently won the 2011 John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award. Her poems have also been exhibited at the Royal Festival Hall in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seren","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041200548,"sku":"9781854115737","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/seren_-_clueless_dogs.jpeg?v=1752237309"},{"product_id":"brood","title":"Brood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrood\u003c\/em\u003e is the new pamphlet from poet \u003cstrong\u003eRhian Edwards\u003c\/strong\u003e. Winner of all three categories of Wales Book of the Year in 2013 for her debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eClueless Dogs,\u003c\/em\u003e Bridgend-born and based Edwards is known for her dazzling performance style and her vivid, often acutely personal poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new pamphlet opens with ‘Birds of Rhiannon’ introducing us (via a nod to the famous medieval Mabinogion story where magic birds, said to bring people back from the dead, console the heartbroken Celtic princess Rhiannon) to a darkly resonant tone that echoes from the myth:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore I was mortal, I was haloed\u003cbr\u003ein feathers, my trinity of familiars;\u003cbr\u003ewhose birdsong was legend, serenading\u003cbr\u003ethe dead from their dreams,\u003cbr\u003elullabying the living to torpor…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe centre of this new pamphlet is a ten-part poem, ‘Pied Margot’ based on the mnemonic rhyme for groups of magpies ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy…’. This long poem charts the progression of a troubling relationship from infatuation to disillusionment, alongside the birth of a much-loved daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are unflinching descriptions of arduous pregnancy, as well as miscarriage, that remind us that this stage of a woman’s life can be as risky as a battlefield. Also, any parent will recognise the irritated joy of ‘Kiss’ where a child becomes an expert at ‘delaying the damnation of bedtime.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, birds are at all times present: hovering, chattering, casting their shadows, they are both tricksters and familiars in these hypnotic, spell-like poems. Welsh artist Paul Edwards has provided some beautiful charcoal drawings of magpies inspired by this atmospheric sequence, which feature throughout the pamphlet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther poems feature Gulls, Red Kites and ‘The Universal Doodle’ of a murmuration cloud of starlings. 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