Poetry Wales : 40 Years

Charting 40 years of evolving tastes, fashions, cultures, and politics, this anthology spotlights the original mission of "Poetry Wales" magazine: to provide a forum for Welsh writing in English. Today the magazine is a thoroughly internationalist journal, publishing poets from Heaney to Mapanje and translating works from around the world. Nevertheless, in the four decades of its existence, it has kept a sharp eye out for Welsh poets writing with invention, passion, and rigor--and all reflecting, in both major and minor keys, the life of their homeland.

An entertaining and wide-ranging selection from forty years of one of Britain''s foremost poetry magazines.

Forty years and 154 issues have helped Poetry Wales become one of the bedrock magazines for new poetry in Britain. Despite its name, PW is an internationalist journal, regularly publishing translations and poetry from around the world. It publishes the leading poets of the day, from Heaney to Mapanje as well as seeking out writing''s exciting new talents. At its heart, historically, has been poetry from Wales in both languages.

The current editor, Robert Minhinnick, has compiled an anthology which provides an essential overview of the poetry and criticism which has appeared in Poetry Wales, and of poetry from Wales over the last forty years. Excellence has always been the guiding criterium for the magazine, and this book is no exception.

Robert Minhinnick is the prize-winning author of two volumes of essays and seven volumes of poetry. He has also edited a book on the environment in Wales, written for television and provided columns for The Western Mail and Planet. He is the co-founder of the environmental organisation, Sustainable Wales, and is currently the editor of Poetry Wales.