Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 80
ISBN: 9781854110268
Publication date: January 1, 1990
Price: £4.95
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“The most significant writer among these prizewinners … I take to be Christopher Meredith. He writes with freedom and perhaps unfashionable eloquence about alienation and doubt.” So wrote Michael Hofman in the T.L.S. of the 1983-84 Gregory Award winners.
Meredith’s first short book, This, went on to win the Welsh Arts Council Young Writer Prize in 1985. Snaring Heaven, his first full-length collection, includes some poems from the now unavailable This, many more original pieces, and some free translations from the Welsh.
The subjects range from a scratched LP, to the planet Jupiter, to a man with a cardboard box on his head, to, in the longer poems, an attempt at considering the relationship between what’s inner and personal, and the outer political world.
Christopher Meredith
Christopher Meredith is the award-winning author of five novels and five collections of poetry and also tranlsates Welsh to English. Prizes include an Eric Gregory Award, the Arts Council of Wales Young Writer Prize and the Fiction Prize for his first novel, Shifts. His second novel, Griffri, was shortlisted for the Book of the Year Award. His collection of poems, The Meaning of Flight, was long-listed for The Book of the Year Award 2006. His most recent full novel is The Book of Idiots (2012). He has given readings all over Britain and Europe as well as in Israel/Palestine and the USA. Born and brought up in Tredegar, he was a steelworker and a schoolteacher before becoming a professor of creative writing at the University of Glamorgan. He lives in Brecon. A collection of six short fictions, titled Brief Lives, was released in 2018.
In 2021 Seren published his short novel Please simultaneously with a new poetry collection Still. Buy both for the discounted price of £15.00 in our two-book deal.
