Ruth Bidgood
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Writers of Wales
ISBN-10
070832522X
ISBN-13
9780708325223
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2012
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
244 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: poetry & poets
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This is the first full-length scholarly study of the prize-winning poet Ruth Bidgood, a writer who is best known for her long-term literary engagement with the landscape and communities of the mid-Wales region she has made her home.
Ruth Bidgood published her first book of poetry in 1972, the year she turned fifty, and she has been writing about the landscape and communities of her mid-Wales homeland ever since. This book is the first full-length study of Bidgood’s life and work, considering her career to date and providing detailed scrutiny of her poetry from its genesis in the 1960s to her prizewinning 2009 volume Time Being. While acknowledging the breadth of Bidgood’s poetic work and artistic concerns, Matthew Jarvis argues that her most important achievement is the creation, over many years, of what has become nothing less than a mid-Wales epic.
Jarvis’s perceptive study is supplemented by previously unpublished writing by Bidgood—two politically striking early poems and one long letter responding to what she saw as a misinterpretation of her work. An extended bibliography of material by and about Bidgood rounds out the volume, ensuring that it will be a valuable resource both for further scholarly research and for readers who wish to extend their engagement with the poet.
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