Our Bookshelf
Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
“This wide-ranging collection sees Curtis writing at the height of his powers and confirms his position as one of Wales’s leading poets.”
Neil Leadbeater, Write Out Loud
“His words break through walls and cross boundaries not in an effort to reach a final destination, but in an attempt to learn the necessary arts of modern survival.”
Professor M. Wynn Thomas
“The poems reverberate with present, sensuous experiences, but beyond their immediacy there is a deep hinterland of public and private histories, grief and delight.”
Helen Dunmore
Leaving The Hills
Tony Curtis’s Leaving the Hills is a collection full of stories from everywhere by a great Welsh poet at his best. From the Welsh mountains to the Hollywood Hills, these poems offer lyrics, longer dramatic monologues and they explore personalities as various as Roger Bannister, Muhammed Ali, Billie Holiday, and Claude Debussy.
In his first poetry collection since From the Fortunate Isles: New & Selected Poems, Tony Curtis brings together poems that range from California to Carmarthen, Medieval Ireland to present-day Wales; there are lyrical poems and longer dramatic monologues. His subjects range from Roger Bannister to Muhammed Ali, from Billie Holiday to Claude Debussy. There is a moving sequence written for the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, in response to the photographs of Chuck Rapport.
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(2024)
Seren
88 pp
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(2024)
Seren holds English language rights and right to license foreign language and overseas editions.
Adolygiadau
“This wide-ranging collection sees Curtis writing at the height of his powers and confirms his position as one of Wales’s leading poets.”
Darllenwch fwy o adolygiadauNeil Leadbeater, Write Out Loud