Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970-2005

Lively and informed, provocative and perceptive, this specially commissioned work is a superb guide to English-language poetry in Wales during the last 30 years. Adopting a thematic approach and exploring the field through the prisms of politics, nationhood, gender, the environment, and external influences, his experimentation in form and language offers a fresh, distinctive voice in analyzing modern Welsh verse.