Zen Cymru Gary Geddes the Emirates and Yemen

the Emirates and Yemen

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the latter being short-listed for the Forward prize for the best first collection

Indiana Review

is a series of 'muse' poems that are inspired by lines or images from the Italian poet

Zen Cymru Gary Geddes the Emirates and YemenZen Cymru is the new collection of poems by that master of modern angst, Peter Finch. Not one for quiet meditations, this voice is: loud, bewildered, satirical, furious, sad, fearful and funny. This is a Wales that missed its revolution in 'I Chew Gum and Think of Rifles'. This is a Wales beset by: rain, the ghosts of hard drinking poets, of holy wells guarded by heifers, of sports crowds, Ikea, sheep, 'enormous storm clouds', and the 'Entry of Christ