Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 72
ISBN: 9781854112026
Publication date: June 30, 1997
Price: £6.95
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Animaculture by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams followed her acclaimed Book of Shadows (1990). Her style is intensely lyrical and imaginative but also finely controlled and tempered by a keen intelligence. This collection includes shorter lyrics as well as two fine sequences.
There are poems here inspired by personal experience: by family, dreams and childhood memories. Others are re-interpretations of myths or historical anecdotes. Always evident is the author’s profound and passionate response to nature; these poems are steeped in all weathers and seasons. The ’Sculpture at Margam’ sequence is a series of meditations based around the history and setting of Margam Abbey on the coast of south Wales, while the five parts of ’Spring in Saskatchewan’ vividly evoke the scenes, myths and events encountered by the author on a visit to Canada.
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams has been a Seren poet since 1987. Her first collection The Tree Calendar won a WAC Young Writers Award the following year. Three further collections followed: Book of Shadows (1990); Animaculture (1997); and Greenland (2003). A reprint of her first three books in one volume, Hummadruz, appeared in 2000. During these years she was active in the poetry scene, performing her work widely in the UK and abroad, reviewing, giving writing workshops and teaching in schools and universities. She was a regular tutor at Ty Newydd Writers Centre in North Wales, as well as for the Arvon Foundation. She taught and read alongside Wales’ finest poets, and her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. For several years she was joint poetry editor of the journal Scintilla, with Anne Cluysenaar and Graham Hartill. In 2003 she embarked on a change of career, training as a psychotherapist while continuing creative writing tutoring with the Open University. She now has a thriving private counselling practice in Abergavenny. Her New and Selected Poems, The Little Hours, was published with Seren in June 2022, reintroducing her poetry to a new and wider audience.
