Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
And You, Helen
And You, Helen
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Cyfrol yn archwilio gweddwdod Helen Thomas, gwraig y bardd rhyfel Edward Thomas, gan gynnig golwg gyffredinol ar ryfel a galar, priodas a phrofedigaeth. Ceir arweiniad i fyfyrdod ar fywyd Helen gan gerdd y bardd i'w wraig, 'And You, Helen', ynghyd â cherdd hir Deryn Rees-Jones yn dwyn yr un teitl. Cyfoethogir y gyfrol gan luniau Charlotte Hodes.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
And You, Helen explores the widowhood of Helen Thomas, wife of war poet Edward Thomas, and by implications war widows generally. Deryn Rees-Jones's long poem is accompanied by a meditation on Helen, illustrated by Charlotte Hodes's collages.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781721728
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781721728
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- And You, Helen
- Awdur / Author
- Rees-Jones, Deryn
- Current Price ex VAT
- £14.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £14.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2014-06-20
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Darlunydd / Illustrator
- Hodes, Charlotte
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 88 pages
- Size
- 164 × 234 mm; depth 10 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Beirdd Unigol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Individual Poets (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Deryn Rees-Jones is a leading UK poet and academic. Seren has published her four poetry collections, most recently Burying the Wren (2011) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the poetry section of Wales Book of the Year. She is lectures in English at the University of Liverpool. Charlotte Hodes is a painter, ceramicist and collage maker on women’s subjects who has exhibited widely. She is a graduate and postgraduate of the Slade School of Art and was the first Associate Artist at the Wallace Collection. Hodes is currently Professor in Fine Art at London College of Fashion.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Poet Deryn Rees-Jones and artist Charlotte Hodes have created a unique approach to the life of Helen Thomas, and through her to the women, and children, left behind by the fatalities of war. Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband the war poet Edward Thomas was killed at the battle of Arras in 1917, and was left to bring up their three young children. On the centenary of the First World War And You, Helen explores her loss, and the loss of all war widows, through poetry, prose and art. In Rees-Jones’s long poem, takes as it’s starting point Thomas’s only poem addressed directly to his wife – ‘And you, Helen’ – and which reflects on their troubled relationship. Rees-Jones’s poem imagines Helen after Edward’s death, and is complemented by a meditative essay on the complexities of the relationship between the poet and his family, and on war, grief, marriage and bereavement more generally: a critical exploration through a personal lens. Charlotte Hodes takes Rees-Jones’s touchstone for her own exploration of these themes through thirteen of her distinctive collages and print, which extend her body of work about the changing position of women since the eighteenth century.
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