{"product_id":"9781780373881","title":"Bondo","description":"Author: Menna Elfyn\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781780373881\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloodaxe\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Oct 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBondois Menna Elfyn's fifth poetry book from Bloodaxe. The title meanseavesin 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.Bondois also the voice which echoes the role of the Welsh bard as remembrancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike her previous Bloodaxe titles,Bondois a dual-language 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenna 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.Her 2007 Bloodaxe Books retrospectivePerfect Blemish: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems \/ Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad \u0026amp; Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007was followed by two further Welsh-English collections,Murmur(2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation; andBondo(2017). Her hybrid sixth poetry book from Bloodaxe,Parch(2025), combines translations and self-translations with poetry written direct into English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924835483806,"sku":"ING-9781780373881","price":23.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781780373881.jpg?v=1782953619","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781780373881","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}