The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry. 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in translation. Colette Bryce Vuong writes about the most

Vuong writes about the most profound subjects – love and loss

she has been a strong presence in the linguistic interweave between the Caribbean and the UK

illustrating the things poets have in common

‘Holodets’ tackles what is lost in translation during a love affair between an English poet and a Russian immigrant

and what has she got to do with the woman in the labyrinth

The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry. 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in translation. Colette Bryce Vuong writes about the mostPoetry Book Society Recommended Translation Welsh is the oldest surviving Celtic language, and the most flourishing. For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth. And despite the global tendency towards homogenisation, Welsh poets have fought back, drawing inspiration from both the traditional and the contemporary to forge