Snaring Heaven
"The most significant writer among these prizewinners � I take to be Christopher Meredith. He writes with freedom and perhaps unfashionable eloquence about alienation and doubt." So wrote Michael Hofman in the T.L.S. of the 1983-84 Gregory Award winners. Meredith's first short book, This, went on to win the Welsh Arts Council Young Writer Prize in 1985. Snaring Heaven, his first full-length collection, includes some poems from the now unavailable This, many more new pieces, and some free translations from the Welsh. The subjects range from a scratched LP, to the planet Jupiter, to a man with a cardboard box on his head, to, in the longer poems, an attempt at considering the relationship between what's inner and personal, and the outer political world.
Snaring Heaven is available from Seren, Floors 1 & 2, 38-40 Nolton Street Bridgend,CF31 3BN, or email. Seren also have a web site
Click on the book cover to see a poem from Snaring Heaven
Or click on the book cover for The Meaning of Flight to see some new poems from that collection.
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