Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 64
ISBN: 9781854112798
Publication date: August 13, 4400
Price: £6.95
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A sense of mystery and mortality infuses these beautiful poems by Ruth Bidgood. Her deep engagement with the landscape and history of her part of Wales is matched by a metaphysical questioning as to the purpose and meaning of experience.
The voices that she invokes are often the ’unremembered’ ones: a failed medieval prince, a schoolchild, a local farmer, a lost dog. Her deceptively plain language and quiet humour, her keenly attentive eye for striking imagery and her ear for anecdote give us poems that are at once accessible and profound. Singing to Wolves is sure to please her discerning readership, who span the generations, as well as to recruit new fans to the pleasures of her poems.
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.
