{"product_id":"gen-9781781724736","title":"Gen","description":"\u003csection\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDisgrifiad Cymraeg \/ Welsh Description\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAil gyfrol o farddoniaeth Jonathan Edwards, bardd o gymoedd Gwent. Mae'r cerddi yn dathlu bywyd llanc yn y cymoedd yn dod i oed gŵr, gan gynnig portreadau cynnes o aelodau teuluol ac arwyr pop megis Harry Houdini a Kurt Cobain, ynghyd â hanesion Cymreig gwir a dychymygol.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003csection\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDisgrifiad Saesneg \/ English Description\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is acclaimed Gwent Valleys poet Jonathan Edwards' second book. The poems celebrate a Valleys youth and young manhood, offering the reader affectionate portraits of family members alongside pop culture figures like Harry Houdini and Kurt Cobain, and real and imagined Welsh histories. 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It was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. He has read his poems on BBC radio and television, recorded them for the Poetry Archive, and led workshops in schools, universities and prisons. He lives in Crosskeys, South Wales, and works as a teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003csection\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAdolygiad y Cyhoeddwr \/ Publisher Review\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Jonathan Edwards released his debut collection, My Family and Other Superheroes , back in 2014, it went on to win that year’s Costa Book Award for Poetry. For those of us who read and enjoyed it, it wasn’t hard to see why. Edwards wrote warmly of his family alongside his other titular heroes, including Evel Knievel, Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. His mix of references to widely known pop-culture icons alongside unknown familial icons, was endearing, full of kindness, and set the bar high for a follow-up. Four years on, Gen is that follow-up, and it doesn’t disappoint. There are no massive surprises in Gen as Edwards revisits familiar (and familial) themes in the same accessible, kind and warm tone. His family stories and memories of childhood continue to be described in the context of pop culture. In ‘Olympic 100m Final, Seoul 1988’, his own memories and the events of the day are one and the same as he recalls how watching Ben Johnson win Olympic gold influenced a summer’s role play for him. His grandfather is described as a teenager playing in the crowd as Harry Houdini performs on Newport Bridge, pinning the personal alongside the notable public yet again. Elsewhere, ‘Kurt Cobain Proposes to Courtney Love, TJs, Newport, 1991’ has Edwards oblivious to what’s going on as the day’s alt-pop supercouple cement their love in what one imagines went on to become a known haunt for him: ‘I am four miles away and twelve years old…’ Making sense of self and place through a wider public lens is something Edwards does so well. However, while My Family… and parts of Gen use pop culture as something to give context and relativity to everyday experience, this idea of context and relativity is something that he really expands on in this collection. With a series of poems on well-loved locations, Edwards takes his lens and looks at far bigger issues than he has before, and does it incredibly. In ‘Cofiwch Dryweryn’, the Tyrweryn reservoir is described beautifully: the still water reflecting the surrounding hills, and the drowned village church spire breaking the surface. The village that made way for the reservoir is paid tribute to so vividly. In a striking image, Edwards writes: ‘…In Liverpool, a man turns the tap, fills the sink or a glass and in Tryweryn, the lowering water makes the church spire grow stronger, taller.’ Just as Edwards is defined in relation to his icons, Tryweryn is defined in relation to Liverpool. This is done brilliantly, and made all the more powerful when the following page contains ‘Last Day of School, Capel Celyn, 1963’: a detailed look at the final class image from the school now submerged under the reservoir. With Wales, and Newport particularly, playing such a vivid role in so many of Edwards’ poems, the Tryweryn poems highlight the complexity of what Welshness means to him. This isn’t to say that this is a dark and serious collection – far from it. It contains humour, familiar names and places, and there is a sense of the poetry and magic in the everyday. In ‘One Fine Day’, a playful scene is imagined from the seedlings of simply leaving the house and heading to work. In a personal highlight, Edwards finds romance in describing the absence of romance when he pens a ‘Song of the Retail Park Tree’. His personification of the carefully pruned tree holds, for me, more romance and beauty than some of the greatest nature poems. Gen is a brilliant collection. More of the same from an incredible talent, but so much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58819475145078,"sku":"9781781724736","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0041\/5340\/9585\/files\/9781781724736.jpg?v=1790350381","url":"https:\/\/www.siopypentan.co.uk\/products\/gen-9781781724736","provider":"Siop Y Pentan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}