Shards of Light
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2018
208 pages
978-1-78683-352-5 (ISBN)
Description
Shards of Light is a collection of previously unpublished poems by Emyr Humphreys. Now in his hundredth year, he has been described as Wales's foremost novelist of his generation. This newly discovered collection of poems has all the sharpness and incisiveness of thought as if they had been written today. Humphreys scrutinises life with a wry humour, coloured by the experience of his great longevity and grounded in Wales. With a sharpness of thought and a sparseness and frugality of expression - a hallmark of his work - the poems contain a profundity which challenges us to think more deeply about the nature of our being. They fearlessly ask difficult questions of ourselves as to the nature of being within the vastness of creation. The subjects are as varied as is man's experience, from the vastness of time, space and God's power, to musings on everyday life leading to old age. Ultimately the reader will find the experience entertaining yet deeply felt, satisfying and rewarding.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Illustrations
No
ISBN-13
978-1-78683-352-5 (9781786833525)
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This book will appeal to the general reader who is interested in poetry or Emyr Humphrey's previous work.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Shards of Light
- We are old age
- Scratches on stone
- Bluebells
- The Funny Bone
- Childhood
- Lament for a game of Cowboys and Indians
- Recollections of Nant Mill
- More mice than men
- 'Cousin Swift you will never be a poet'
- Job Creation
- Steel
- The Art Critic
- Transparence
- The Letter Writer
- Love Song
- Silence
- Civil Unrest
- Battlefield
- A Clergyman Muses
- Poughkeepsie
- Bird on a Twig
- Solomon Smiles
- A Day in Hand
- Manawydan
- The Peasant
- A Dog's Life
- To the Sea in a Sieve
- Sacred Tree
- The Courteous Dig
- Wm. Jones Tremadoc
- Nostalgia
- The Damned
- Nid talwrn yw' r byd
- A Moth at St James's
- Brotherhood
- Jacob's Coat
- The Dead
- Wise Man
- Jews
- Terror
- Sunday School
- The House Husband
- John Elias 1830
- Making butter - old style
- The Art of War
- Marvao 2
- The Colonel's Wife
- Rooftop
- The Best-Selling Poet
- Montale Cabinera
- Survival
- The Boat
- More
- Negative Sermon
- The Bard
- Notes on a Page
- Whispers
- The Geese of Time
- Provincial Song
- Recipe for a Poet
- Where they are gone
- A Blessing
- Wealth
- Don't rush
- Novelist's Notes
- From a Far Country
- Etruscan Shadows
- Gododdin
- Picking up signals
- The Sag in the Cloth
- Holy Orders
- Giving Up
- The Thirties
- Elinor getting on
- Making a Difference
- Hitler
- Dictator
- The Same Old Story
- First Winter
- A Political Cry
- Freedom
- Hen Gerdd
- Limp between two languages
- Lines on an Unsuccessful Politician
- Poets in Orbit
- To whom it may concern (1)
- To whom it may concern (2)
- A time before
- Age
- Belief
- Governing Class
- Floor Litter
- Battling with the Ego
- Homework
- In Lazio
- Inflammatory Stuff
- Two of Everything
- Alternative Routes
- Being Rational
- Domestic Scene
- EP
- Paddington
- A Votive Moment
- Another Route
- Computing
- Dictionaries
- Everyone
- A Rehearsal
- An Actress
- Agostino
- The Stable
- Honesty
- Living In
- Syllables
- Taking Off
- The Secret
- The Fly
- An Open Secret
- The Marble Tomb
- Bones
- Lovesong
- The Shadow Falls
- Evening
- Why water won't bend
- Ultimate Discoveries
- Youth and Age
- Triumph of Old Age
- The Old Couple
- Back Cover
