Bondo by Menna Elfyn and translated by Gillian Clarke

This is poetry from United Kingdom.

Bondo by Menna Elfyn translated by Gillian Clarke is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Welsh. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781780373881E12.

Menna Elfyn’s Bondo, translated from Welsh by Gillian Clarke, gives the library a Welsh-language entry that should be read through sound, locality, and the stubborn life of a language that has survived pressure. Welsh poetry in translation carries a different relationship to nation and inheritance than many larger-language traditions. The act of translation here is not simply access. It is also care for a language whose music matters. The title’s compactness lets the reader enter without too much certainty. Published by Bloodaxe Books, Bondo belongs as a work of linguistic rootedness and lyric presence. It reminds us that world poetry is not only continents and empires. Sometimes it is a smaller language refusing to be made small.

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