Her volume opens with a poem, Baby Sitting, which voices a guilty unwillingness to respond to a child's demands; M. Wynn Thomas
thinks this a response to the angrier, rawer Morning Song which opens...
Literary responses
Gillian Clarke
Critic M. Wynn Thomas
reads the Gothicpastoral
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of The Fox as less an imitation of than a dialogue with Ted Hughes
.
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Literary responses
Gillian Clarke
M. Wynn Thomas
calls the long title poem a landmark text in Welsh writing in English.It appeared on The Guardian's Christmas list of recommended books.
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Textual Features
Gillian Clarke
These complex poems share a deceptively simple surface. The title poem, about a day spent tending a sick child, is said by M. Wynn Thomas
to mark the genesis of GC
's poetry, as an...
Timeline
: Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published...
Writing climate item
Spring 1965
Meic Stephens
founded Poetry Wales, published at Merthyr Tydfil, partly in order to allow English-language poets to contribute to the revitalised nationalist culture of the period.
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