Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 152
ISBN: 9781854110695
Publication date: January 1, 1992
Price: £6.95
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This Selected Poems by Ruth Bidgood includes generous selections from her previous five volumes as well as a large section of new poems.
‘Valley-before-Night’, a long poem about the history, inhabitants and landscape of Cwm-cyn-Nos – a ‘dark valley’ in mid Wales – sets the tone for the new work. Her classic themes are all here: a deep concern for the environment and the way the turbulent history of a place influences present and future generations.
Ruth Bidgood
Ruth Bidgood (1922-2022) was born in Blaendulais, near Neath, educated at Oxford, and worked as a coder in Alexandria, Egypt in World War Two. She lived in mid-Wales.
She published thirteen books of poetry. Her twelfth, Time Being (Seren, 2009), won the Roland Mathias Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. As well as poetry, she wrote a prose book about Wales, Parishes of the Buzzard (Goldleaf, 2000), and published many articles in country historical journals. Her most recent poetry collection was Above the Forests (Cinnamon, 2012), and its release coincided with Matthew Jarvis’s critical study of her work Ruth Bidgood: Writers of Wales, published by University of Wales Press 2012.
