Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Herbert Williams Wrestles in Mud: Cardiff, Thursday 14th June

Herbert Williams book launch: Wrestling in Mud

The Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
7.30pm
Thursday 14th June

Join Herbert Williams and Cinnamon Press, supported by Academi, for the Cardiff launch of Wrestling in Mud: New & Selected Poems.

Free entry. www.academic.org

Wrestling in Mud is Herbert's long overdue collection spanning five decades of excellent poetry writing. 'There's a sense of history here,' comments Ruth Bidgood, 'but also poems that do indeed sing a greeting to the future.' The new poems display a poet who, as Ifor Thomas says, is, 'at the peak of his powers, a wise, reflective, mature poet who at the same time delights in being as scurrilous and acerbic as a thwarted teenager.'

ED: I salute any poet who can call their New & Selected Poems 'Wrestling in Mud'. Can't wait to see the cover image ...

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