Growing from a year-long commitment to write one haiku a day, Catstrawe ranges through family history and female relationships, the stimulation of travel and the inspiration to found in the immediate environment, politics and the world situation, but always, at its heart, the experience of living with cancer. Quickly outgrowing the limitations of seventeen syllables to explorer more extended forms, this is a book about living life to the full in the face of the inevitability of death.

About the Author
Helen May Williams lives in South West Wales, where she regularly leads poetry workshops including the Poetry Society Stanza group in Carmarthen. Her poetry sequence, The Princess of Vix, was published by Three Drops Press in 2017. As Helen May Dennis, she formerly taught at the University of Warwick and published on twentieth-century North American literature and poetry, including on: Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Willa Cather, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and contemporary Native American novelists in Native American Literature: towards a spatialized reading (Routledge 2007).


Book Information
ISBN 9781788640442
Author Helen May Williams
Format Paperback
Imprint Cinnamon Press
Publisher Cinnamon Press