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The first English translation by a poet of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures, which captures its compelling 'word-music'
The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year 600AD. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the English, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down by two medieval scribes. It is comprised of one hundred laments to the named characters who fell, and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke is the first poet to create a translation. She animates this historical epic with a modern musicality, making it live in the language of today.
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Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff, Wales. National Poet of Wales 2008–2016, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2010) and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award (2012), she is one of the best-known names in UK poetry today, as well as one of the most popular poets on the school curriculum. Poet, playwright, editor, translator, she is President of Ty Newydd Writers’ Centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her collections include Ice (2012) and Zoology (2017); her Selected Poems appeared in 2016.
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The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen, Signed by the Author
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvii, 179 pages. Notes; Text in English and Welsh. Subjects; Cattraeth, Battle of, Catterick, England, ca. 600 ; Poetry. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 436993
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The gododdin : lament for the fallen / a version by Gillian Clarke
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvii, 179 pages. Notes; Text in English and Welsh. Subjects; Cattraeth, Battle of, Catterick, England, ca. 600 ; Poetry. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 436993