Seasons in the Sun

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Casgliad o gerddi gan Annest Gwilym, bardd sy'n byw yng Ngogledd Cymru. Cynhwysir 31 cerdd rydd sy'n canolbwyntio'n gyffredinol ar natur a'r tymhorau. Mae'r bardd yn adlewyrchu ar y modd y mae lle wedi effeithio ar ei bywyd, mae'r mor yn ddelwedd amlwg a phlethir straeon am fytholeg Gymreig yn y gwaith.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A poetry collection by the north Wales-based poet Annest Gwilym. It comprises 31 poems of free verse focused in general on nature and the seasons. These form a backdrop to the poet's personal reflections on how place has affected her life. The ocean is a repeating theme, and there is also a thread of Welsh mythology woven through the collection.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Annest Gwilym lives in north west Wales, near the Snowdonia National Park. She is a native Welsh speaker. She has received four Special Commendations and four Shortlisteds in writing competitions in recent years. She received a Special Mention in Sentinel Literary Quarterly's poetry competition (May 2018). She was shortlisted in the Littoral Press Nature Poetry Collection Competition 2019. She was joint runner-up in the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2015, for short fiction. She was the winner of firstwriter.com's Fifteenth International Poetry Competition 2016/17. This is her third collection of poems.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

The collection contains thirty-one poems of free verse which are generally focused on nature and the seasons. These form a backdrop to the poet's personal reflections on how place has affected her life. The ocean is a repeating theme, and there is also a thread of Welsh mythology woven through the collection. "In her new book of poems, Seasons in the Sun, Gwilym reaches out with honesty and compassion, sharpening the eyes and understanding with a sensory and versatile collection, evoking a fusion of time, people and place." – Byron Beynon "Reading these poems, I get a strong sense of a poet who is deeply embedded in her land and home, in her own personal history, and her present. A poet who thinks about what has been lost and what may have been. One who watches, remembers, dreams. And very much a poet who feels everything, even if she appears to be standing on the outskirts." – Maxine Rose Munro "The poems in this collection by Annest Gwilym offer a varied and individual insight into people and places, buildings and objects. With each poem we are invited to see and experience these things with the poet and to journey with her through the interesting and exciting landscape she draws and it is a landscape well worth exploring." – Jim Bennett