Description
'He became the unacknowledged national poet of his generation, an open hearted soul whose poems embodied much of what our nation is today-diverse, passionate, tender and unafraid to take a hard look at its political and cultural complexity.' - Menna Elfyn 'Nigel Jenkins has a staggering presence in the literature of Wales. His poetry was both political and beautiful, deeply human, wonderfully cosmological and often scathingly humorous. Swansea's most amiable bard and, undoubtedly, it's most popular poet since Dylan Thomas.' - Topher Mills 'This selection of Nigel's work reminds us that a fine poet's voice need never be silenced.' - Gillian Clarke 'Peace, praise & revolution. Jenkins felt these were the true poet's pursuit. And he exemplified this in his own life. A lyrical and political idealist, he saw the writer's role as a necessary thorn in the side of any state or official agency. As excellent in describing snowdrops as he was acerbic about the world's smothered histories, including that of Wales, Nigel Jenkins remains a formidable and radical writer and satirist. His death at 64 was a profound shock to all those who loved his writings and music, both tender and tendentious.' - Robert Minhinnick
About the Author
Nigel Jenkins (1949-2014) was one of Wales's leading writers: a poet and essayist, he was also a political activist, teacher, mentor, broadcaster, playwright, translator, psychogeographer and critic. Brought up on a farm on the Gower peninsula, he went on to study literature and film at Essex University and work as a journalist in England after a brief stint as a circus roustabout in America. On his return to Wales in 1976 he became a full-time writer and lecturer in Creative Writing. He was a founder member, and later chairman, of the Welsh Union of Writers. He won the Wales Book of the Year prize for his travel book Gwalia in Khasia - the story of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists Mission to the Khasi Hills in north-east India. In 2001, he published a selection of his essays and articles as Footsore on the Frontier. He was a co editor of the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, and a noted literary translator from Welsh. He was director of Swansea University's Masters programme in Creative Writing and also worked for Trinity College, Carmarthen, the Workers' Educational Association, and Ty Newydd, the National Writing Centre of Wales.
Book Information
ISBN 9781914595226
Author Nigel Jenkins
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint Parthian Books
Publisher Parthian Books