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Shards of light / Emyr Humphreys.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humphreys, Emyr, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Shards of Light is a collection of poetic meditations, a compilation of reflections and philosophical contemplations written by the distinguished prize-winning novelist Emyr Humphreys, now in his hundredth year.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Shards of Light
- We are old age
- Scratches on stone
- Bluebells
- The Funny Bone
- Childhood
- Lament for a game of Cowboys and Indians
- Recollections of Nant Mill
- More mice than men
- 'Cousin Swift you will never be a poet'
- Job Creation
- Steel
- The Art Critic
- Transparence
- The Letter Writer
- Love Song
- Silence
- Civil Unrest
- Battlefield
- A Clergyman Muses
- Poughkeepsie
- Bird on a Twig
- Solomon Smiles
- A Day in Hand
- Manawydan
- The Peasant
- A Dog's Life
- To the Sea in a Sieve
- Sacred Tree
- The Courteous Dig
- Wm. Jones Tremadoc
- Nostalgia
- The Damned
- Nid talwrn yw' r byd
- A Moth at St James's
- Brotherhood
- Jacob's Coat
- The Dead
- Wise Man
- Jews
- Terror
- Sunday School
- The House Husband
- John Elias 1830
- Making butter - old style
- The Art of War
- Marvao 2
- The Colonel's Wife
- Rooftop
- The Best-Selling Poet
- Montale Cabinera
- Survival
- The Boat
- More
- Negative Sermon
- The Bard
- Notes on a Page
- Whispers
- The Geese of Time
- Provincial Song
- Recipe for a Poet
- Where they are gone
- A Blessing
- Wealth
- Don't rush
- Novelist's Notes
- From a Far Country
- Etruscan Shadows
- Gododdin
- Picking up signals
- The Sag in the Cloth
- Holy Orders
- Giving Up
- The Thirties
- Elinor getting on
- Making a Difference
- Hitler
- Dictator
- The Same Old Story
- First Winter
- A Political Cry
- Freedom
- Hen Gerdd
- Limp between two languages
- Lines on an Unsuccessful Politician
- Poets in Orbit
- To whom it may concern (1)
- To whom it may concern (2)
- A time before
- Age
- Belief
- Governing Class
- Floor Litter
- Battling with the Ego
- Homework
- In Lazio
- Inflammatory Stuff
- Two of Everything
- Alternative Routes
- Being Rational.
- Domestic Scene
- EP
- Paddington
- A Votive Moment
- Another Route
- Computing
- Dictionaries
- Everyone
- A Rehearsal
- An Actress
- Agostino
- The Stable
- Honesty
- Living In
- Syllables
- Taking Off
- The Secret
- The Fly
- An Open Secret
- The Marble Tomb
- Bones
- Lovesong
- The Shadow Falls
- Evening
- Why water won't bend
- Ultimate Discoveries
- Youth and Age
- Triumph of Old Age
- The Old Couple
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781786833525
- 1786833522
- OCLC:
- 1061860629
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