Demonstrates how contemporary Welsh poets, including Robert Minhinnick, Gwyneth Lewis, Oliver Reynolds and Stephen Knight and many others, have evolved techniques to explore the most pressing issues in modern culture. This book also explores how questions about language have acquired such significance, a particularly urgent theme for Welsh poets.
By evolving new techniques to explore todays most pressing issuesenvironmental destruction and the damage inflicted on the third world by global capitalismcontemporary Welsh poets are making some of the most exciting poetry in Britain. In addition to investigating these new methods of poetic inquiry, Ian Gregson in The New Poetry of Wales explores the issue of language, a particularly urgent concern for these poets who must choose between writing in English or Welsh. With penetrating analyses of a range of new poets, including Robert Minhinnick and Gwyneth Lewis, the former Welsh poet laureate, Gregsons book is an invaluable introduction to a robust field.
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