Writing the Wind

by Crowe, Thomas Rain; Denez, Gwendal; Hubbard, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781883197124
• ISBN10: 1883197120
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: New Native Pr

Summary

A comprehensive look in English at poets from Wales, Brittany, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall and the Isle of Man. Along with poets who are legendary and household names in their native countries, such as Sorley MacLean, Bobi Jones and Anjela Duval, are more than fifty of the new young voices of modern Celtic literature. In tone, these voices of The New Celtic Poetry are equally as sensitive as they are subversive. In this they mirror the struggle and resiliency of a century of language activist-writers who have defied the attempts at cultural genocide by the English and the French -- and have continued to write and speak their languages. The result of that staying power is evidenced in a ground swell of literary activity during the last half of the twentieth century in all six Celtic countries represented in this book.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(16)
Thomas Rain Crowe
Wales/Welsh
Preface	17	(5)
Bobi Jones
Bobi Jones	22	(10)
A Welshless Welshman
A Poem Of Praise
Racing Pigeons
Land of Form
R. Gerallt Jones	32	(5)
A Funeral In Llyn
For Ewan McLachlan
The Preacher
Shetland
Country Parson
Dewi Stephen Jones	37	(4)
Last Window
A Density Of Light
In Weakness . . .
The Balance
The Elder Tree
The Coat
Nesta Wyn Jones	41	(6)
Voices
Poppies
Shadows
A Field Of Wheat
Alan Llwyd	47	(6)
The Place
Memory
Llyn Peninsula
The Horizon-Gazer
The Welsh Language
Menna Elfyn	53	(9)
Nunnery
Double Bed
Cell Angel
Wild Flowers
After The Court Case
Eucalyptus
Chinese Lanterns
Message
Iwan Llwyd	62	(5)
Leaving Land
Aneirin
Weather
As Long
Gwyneth Lewis	67	(7)
Half
Links
Elin ap Hywel	74	(6)
Gold
In My Mother's House
Owl Report
Silence
Blue
Elinor Wyn Reynolds	80	(5)
Coupleology
The Sun's Flowers
Water
Brittany/Breton
Preface	85	(2)
Per Denez
Anjela Duval	87	(10)
Love For A Country
Thank You!
My Poems
Imprison
Humming
The Old Mare
The Dismantling Of Brittany
The Conquerors
Elves
Per Denez	97	(6)
Negro Song
Ian Palach
Songs In Springtime
Going Past My Youth
Naig Rozmor	103	(3)
If I Could Write
Pity
Alleluia
Affliction
My Father's Hands
Reun ar C'halan (Rene Galand)	106	(4)
The Vow Of Winter
The Ghost Of Liberty
The Dream Flower
Song Of Exile
Youenn Gwering	110	(8)
125th Street
The Bridge
Identity
Stairs of Steel
Two Short Tales For A May Day
Annaig Renault	118	(4)
Who Will Take Away From Me
Madness
Chagall
I Walked About
Question
Bernez Tangi	122	(6)
Red Sunset
Near Ti Mizeria
Song For Anna
Mikael Madeg	128	(7)
Wherefrom
Small Question
Portrait For The Leaving
Poem Trying To Understand
Civilisation
Hail . . .
How Obedient And Shy You Are
Lan Tangi	135	(4)
If Man Is Descended Of Monkeys
East
Mousafir
Gwendal Denez	139	(6)
misery
The Poor Man's Share
The Ankou's Garrote
Your Eyes
I Remember
The Devil Of Paralysis
Alan Botrel	145	(6)
In The Glory Lies The King
Dark Nudity
High Tide
One More Time
Ireland/Irish Gaelic
Preface	151	(3)
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Eithne Strong	154	(2)
Response To Munch's Scream
Sean O Tuama	156	(4)
Where Shall We Walk?
Love Game
Christy Ring
Biddy Jenkinson	160	(3)
The Harp Of Dubhros
Silence
Spray
Greagoir O Duill	163	(4)
Winter
New Year
Sonnet For A Six Month Old Cease Fire
Dubhghall
Padraig Mac Fhearghusa	167	(4)
Antinuclear Poem
Near Fenit
Come Here, I Want To Tell You
Chemistry
A Brother's Illness
Micheal O'Siadhail	171	(3)
In A New York Shoe Shop
Visionary
Stranger
Gabriel Rosenstock	174	(8)
Mustanbih
Sometimes I'm A Phoney Man
The Maenad
Letter To My Husband Slaving On The Great Wall
Ravi Shankar
Colette Gallacher (Colette Ni Ghallchoir)	182	(3)
Love Is Silent
That Place You Are So Alone
Requiem
Michael Davitt	185	(7)
We Will Stray
In Memory of Elizabeth Kearney
The Terrorist
For Bobby Sands On The Eve Of His Death
Hiraeth
To You
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill	192	(7)
Blodewedd
Poetry
Jerusalem
The Black Train
The City Of God
Gabriel Fitzmaurice	199	(3)
Gaeilge
Hence The Songs
Survivor
Aine Ni Ghlinn	202	(3)
Curves
The Grass House
Release
Cathal O Searcaigh	205	(12)
When I Was Three
A Portrait Of The Blacksmith As A Young Artist
Shelter
Silence
Beyond
A Braddy Cow
To Jack Kerouac
Piccadilly: Nightfall
Scotland/Scottish Gaelic
Preface	217	(3)
Aonghas MacNeacail
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain)	220	(10)
Celtic Twilight
Spring Tide
A Church Militant
A Poem Made When The Gaelic Society Of Inverness Was A Hundred Years Old
The Great Famine
Derick Thomson (Ruaraidh Mac Thomais)	230	(5)
At Callanish Stones
Thursday Morning, In A Glasgow Post Office
The Herring Girls
Budapest
Strathnaver
William Neill (Uilleam Neill)	235	(6)
What Compelled You To Write In Gaelic?
Contraband
Nightmare
Graves Of Gold
Harper
That's Gone And This Has Come
Iain Crichton Smith (Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn)	241	(7)
The Clearances
Going Home
Two Songs For A New Ceilidh
Berries
Young Girl
Selection
The Letter
Oban
Aonghas MacNeacail	248	(7)
gaelic is alive
flags
in the season when crocuses
the contention
glen remote
making butter
man has been
shamanic song
Myles Campbell (Maoilios M. Caimbeul)	255	(4)
To Any Lewisman
I Remember Death
The Buzzard
Sea Emperor
Language
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh	259	(4)
Eagle, Robin, Pine
Angus Peter Campbell	263	(4)
Suisinish
The Dump, Outside Portree
Landseer
Consumerism
The Highlands
Siusaidh NicNeill	267	(3)
Ghost Dancer
Rody Gorman	270	(3)
Lecture
Purity
Gaelic
Two Loves
Separation
Beside The North Sea
Anne Frater	273	(6)
Mask
Glasgow
She Was Beaten Again Last Night
The Cry Of The Bear
Cornwall/Cornish
Preface	279	(2)
Tim Saunders
Richard Gendall	281	(5)
How To Suck Eggs
The Snow
United We Will Be
Comet
Swallow
Richard Jenkin	286	(2)
The Deceived Husband
For Brian Webb
Garfield Richardson	288	(5)
The Hill-fort
Yet I Have Hope
There Is A Shower Threatening
The Cliff
Pawl Dunbar	293	(4)
There Was A Young Plumber
Shadows Of The Soul
The Shadow
Old Woman
Graham Sandercock	297	(5)
Quiberon
Surf
View From The Street
Tim Saunders	302	(6)
The Cornish Society, St. Piran's Day, 1985
The Great Hunger
My Father
Great Heart, Beat By Beat
In The Country Of The Blue Rock
Pol Hodge (Mab Stenek Veur)	308	(4)
Language Prayer
The Queen's English
Edinburgh Castle
Katrina Waters	312	(5)
I Know You Better Than You Think
Lust
Muses
Isle of Man/Manx
Preface	317	(2)
Brian Stowell
Brian Stowell	319	(4)
The Manx Cat
Turrys Veih'n Cholloo
Adrian Pilgrim	323	(2)
Sunset
Robert Corteen Carswell	325	(4)
Lomman
The Leaves Of Autumn
In The Country
The Sound Of Morning
The Blind Burrowers
Acknowledgements	329	(4)
The Editors	333