Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 64
ISBN: 9781854111777
Publication date: April 17, 1997
Price: £6.95
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A subtle and adept technique, combined with a sharp wit, keen eye and pointed sense of humour, creates poems of memorable cadence and theme.
The title is taken from the remnants of a sign outside a hospital, now closed, that features in the moving reminiscences of an elderly passenger on a bus. Other poems invoke such varied characters as a Welsh pirate, a superb fiddler, a mediaeval woodcarver and Buffalo Bill.
The wild and beautiful Shetland Isles provide inspiration for a number of works, including ’Voices in Mousa Broch’, ’Sailing to Islands’, and ’Under Way.’ A final section is devoted to several of the author’s noteworthy translations from the German of Andreas Gryphius, Friedrich Von Logau and others.
Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh is known to thousands of poetry readers for ‘Sometimes’, her much anthologised ‘poem on the underground’ and for her Selected Poems, a set text in schools. Sheenagh has published nine collections of poetry and translations plus a Selected Poems and a sort of mini-Selected, two novels and critical study of fan fiction.
She used to lecture in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Babel Prize for translation and the Arts Council of Wales’ Book of the Year in 2000. For more information about Sheenagh Pugh visit her writing blog at www.sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com
