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What We're Reading – June 2017

7/6/2017

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​In Issue #6's podcast, our guest Christopher Cornwell recommended a collection that celebrates and laments a lost Parisian river, Rhys pointed our listeners towards an anthology of emerging Welsh writers, Adam revisited a first collection written in Swansea dialect and Richard recommended a publication that represents a unique and inclusive poetry of consciousness.
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Teint – Zoë Skoulding
Hafan Books, 2016

Teint (or Teint: For the Bievre / Pour la Bievre) is the latest publication in the Boiled String series of poetry chapbooks from Hafan Books. Zoë Skoulding's poems in this collection celebrate and mourn the 'lost' Parisian river La Bièvre – a culverted tributary of the Seine. 

A bilingual publication, Teint includes translations into French from the Parisian poet Jean Portante, whose own work was translated into English by Skoulding and published in In Reality (Seren, 2013). 

Teint is available to buy from lulu.com/hafan 

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Cheval 9: The Terry Hetherington Award Anthology 2016 
Parthian Books, 2016

The ninth edition of the Cheval anthology contains a selection of the best poetry and prose submitted to last year's Terry Hetherington Award. The award has become known as one of the most significant awards for young writers in Wales, and counts poets Jonathan Edwards, Natalie Ann Holborow and Jemma L. King amongst its previous winners.  

In addition to publishing the year’s best submissions, the anthology also collects new work by previous winners and commended entrants.

Cheval 9 is available to buy from parthianbooks.com

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Tidy Boy – David Hughes
Swansea Poetry Workshop, 1999

A first collection from David Hughes, Tidy Boy reflects upon people's relationships with one another, on being Welsh, and on the city of Swansea and its inhabitants. Many of the poems are written in Swansea dialect, brilliantly capturing the voices and experiences of people rarely heard in poetry. Unfortunately​, Tidy Boy is now out of print, but you can still pick up a second-hand copy at biblio.co.uk

Watch David Hughes read 'Swansea Market', filmed and edited by friends of the Crunch Turnshoe Productions:

Swansea Market – David Hughes


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A Dream of Mind – C.K. Williams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992

A Dream of Mind is a challenging, exhilarating collection, representing an important stage in the evolution of C. K. Williams' work. It's dominated by the long title poem, which explores the materials and qualities of states of consciousness with enormous flexibility and suppleness.

The poetry of C. K. Williams, who died in 2015, has won an essential place in contemporary American poetry. The long lines that characterised his style from the mid-1970s onwards allowed him to make ever more radical forays into what The New York Times called "a unique and inclusive poetry of consciousness." 

A Dream of Mind is available to buy from us.macmillan.com

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To hear what we said about these books in the 'What We're Reading' segment of the Issue #6 podcast, go here: crunchpoetry.com/issue-6.html
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