In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture to The Blake Society in 1994, Welsh poet David Annwn considers the origin of Blake's vision of the Bard, tracing it back through Thomas Gray to the great Welsh bardic poems of Aneurin and Taliesin. He goes on to follow its recent history, from W.B. Yeats to the modernist poetics of Robert Duncan.

Hear the Voice of the Bard!

Literature & Fiction

Annwn, David

Poetry

West House Books

Stalking Within Yer Chamber: Some Notes for a Reading of David Jones' in Parenthesis

Halsey, Alan

History & Criticism

Danse Macabre

Corcoran, Kevin

Selerie, Gavin

Poetry. The Caseg-Fedi, the Celtic harvest horse, and the ancient Goddess-centered ceremonies of August preside over this sequence by Anglo-Welsh poet David Annwn. Turbulent layers: languages of conflicting technologies, nations, and claims on human consciousness push at their boundaries. This is felt poetry, and poetry sounded in syllable and phrase and passage ... a poetry of the intelligence -- Jeremy Hooker. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Turbulent/ Boundaries

<p>Poetry. BELA FAWR'S CABARET is a new book of poems from writer David Annwn. Gavin Selerie says, "David Annwn's work drills deep into the strata of myth and history, exposing devices which resonate in new contexts. Faithful to the living moment, his poems dip, hover and dart through soundscapes rich with suggestion, rhythmically charged and etymologically playful. Formally adventurous and inviting disjunction, these texts retain a lyric coherence that powerfully renders layers of experience. The mode veers from jazzy to mystical, evoking in the reader both disturbance and content. BELA FAWR'S CABARET has this recognisable stamp: music and legend 'Knocked Abaht a Bit', mischievous humour yielding subtle insight."</p>

Bela Fawr's Cabaret

Ahadada Books

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