Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 64
ISBN: 9781854113528
Publication date: October 6, 2003
Price: £6.95
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In her fourth collection of poetry, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams revisits many of her favorite themes and subjects. These lyric poems explore the natural world, the environment, and the condition of women. Llewellyn-Williams also addresses a shadowy semi-pagan interface between nature and spirituality, in which the natural world is not just the creation of a divine being but also a living thing, complete with good and evil forces. Her imaginative interweaving creates a marvelous poetic style, rich in image and language.
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.
