Resultaten voor 'damian walford davies'
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Viva Bartali!
Inspired by the lyrical, mythic mode of Italian sports journalism from the 1930s to the 1950s, Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France (1938, 1948), known both as 'Gino the Pious' because of his fervent Catholic faith, and as Ginettaccio ('Gino the Terrible'), owing to the short shrift he so often gave the Press. Conjuring Bartali at crux moments in his personal and professional career, through joy and tragedy, defeat and victory, the collection places us alongside the young rider proving his mettle and adding to his palmares in the edgy atmosphere of Mussolini's Fascist Italy, whose political ideology he loathed. From amateur races to the professional one-day classics and on to Tour de France glory, Bartali is seen alongside his fellow riders as both vulnerable body and elite athlete; both cycling's hard man and fond and bereaved father; both kneeling believer and climbing god. The collection gives us an insight into the complex relationship that underpinned his great rivalry with the campionissimo ('champion of champions') Fausto Coppi - the 'man of glass' against Bartali's 'man of iron'. It was a rivalry that a divided a nation and defined a sport. We are with Bartali at the 1948 Tour de France when he takes a phone call from the Italian prime minister, who asks him to do his part in diffusing a political crisis that could have tipped over into violence. And we witness his remarkable secret missions in the saddle as a courier throughout Tuscany during World War 2, carrying forged identity documents that helped save the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews. It was a deed he never spoke about - one for which he was named 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem in 2013.
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Poets Graves/Beddau'r Beirdd
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Cof ac Arwydd - Ysgrifau ar Waldo Williams
Cyfrol o ddeg ysgrif sy'n cynnig darlleniadau ffres, annisgwyl ac heriol o fywyd a gwaith Waldo Williams (1904-71). Ceir cydbwysedd rhwng trafodaethau testunol-fanwl ac ymdriniaethau cysyniadol. Ceir yn ogystal ddialog fywiog rhwng y gwahanol ysgrifau, yn enwedig yn annibynaieth barn y cyfranwyr unigol.
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Môr Goleuni/Tir Tywyll
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Cartographies of Culture
New Geographies of Welsh Writing in EnglishThis pioneering study offers dynamic new answers to Christian Jacob's question: 'What are the links that bind the map to writing?'.
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Waldo Williams
RhyddiaithDamian Walford Davies is Professor of English and Head of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.
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The Protagonists
Never before published and written in three weeks in the autumn of 1967 after two visits to the Greek detention island of Leros, The Protagonists is Brenda Chamberlain's response--both heartbreakingly lyrical and disturbingly visceral--to the right-wing coup d'état of April 1967. A dangerous, dissident text that draws on the conventions of absurdist theater, the play can be viewed as the dark culmination of Chamberlain's profound, career-long exploration of individuality, belonging, incarceration, imaginative freedom and the social role of the artist. It is also a startlingly candid articulation of her own emotional and psychological "internment" at the time. This edition includes a wealth of additional material, including Chamberlain's own sketches, photographs of the play in performance, an interview with the lead actor, a contemporary review of the play's performance, and an in-depth essay contextualizing Chamberlain's literary techniques and influences.
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Echoes to the Amen
R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh poet and an Anglican clergyman whose ironic anti-pastorals, poems of filial resentment, bold charting of the new cosmos, and dialogues with Wallace Stevens and Søren Kierkegaard are among the subjects explored in this collection of critical essays. The first volume to appear since the poet's death in 2000, Echoes to the Amen considers the achievement and legacy of a Welsh icon and one of the great poets of the twentieth century, offering a broad and detailed assessment of the full range of Thomas's distinguished career, as well as engaging new readings of the painful cultural, spiritual, and emotional tensions of his work.
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Whiteout
Searching out troubling dualities, paradoxes, and dislocations that mark people's lives, this collection of poems explores the borders between human and cosmic spheres, life and art, the organic and the technological, the secular and the spiritual. Common ground is turned up in unexpected places. The edgework of these poems marks a willingness to quibble. By turns impassiones, elegiac, and tounge-in-cheek, the volume confronts the reader with the world's uncertainties and disorder. At the same time, it imagines ways of mending hurt, tracking the struggle to love expansively in diminishing space.
€ 13,00