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The Art of Losing

Twelve Poems on Grief and Consolation


112 pages | 13 lino cut illustrations | 5.08 x 7.8 | © 2025

Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature

Poetry


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Table of Contents

Prefatory Note
No Toying With Death
Lewys Glyn Cothi, Un mab oedd degan imi
A Young Moon Entombed
Robert Williams/ Robert ap Gwilym Ddu, Och gur! pwy fesur pa faint
A Black Trench of Loss
R. Williams Parry, Y bardd trwm dan bridd tramor
Bomb Damage
Alun Lewis, Raiders’ Dawn
Funeral Strange
Menna Elfyn, Angladd
Haunted Landscape
Ruth Bidgood, All Souls’
The Atrocity of Aberfan
Leslie Norris, Elegy for David Beynon
A Grim Sir Galahad
Tony Conran, Elegy for the Welsh dead, in the Falkland Islands, 1982
Sweeping Up the Heart
John Ormond [Thomas], After a death
Language Death
Gwyneth Lewis, Roedd y diwedd yn erchyll
The Final Voyage
Rowan Williams, Deathship
No Sunlight Guest
Dannie Abse, The Violin Player

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