Norman Schwenk
BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR
- Title: The Hare That Hides Within: Poems About St. Melangell
- Description:
In this title, ten Welsh poets write about a spiritual homecoming. From the Back Cover This is the first anthology of poems about St Melangell and the mysterious legend of the hunted hare, a girl praying among thorns and a prince confronted with sudden spiritual awareness. The restoration of her church and shrine in Wales in the early 1990's created a wholly unexpected fusion of poetic ideas As she had done hundreds of years, St Melangell seemd to draw together old enemies and rivals and hold them in suspension: Christian and pagan, saint and sinner, hunter and ecologist. many of the leading poets of Wales found themselves caught up in this event, and some of the results are printed here. About the Author Anne Cluysenaar was born in Belgium, finished her schooling in Ireland, received a degree from Trinity College, Dublin, and in the sixties took Irish citizenship. She now lives on a smallholding in Wales. Her selected poems Timeslips (Carcanet) contains a sequence 'Vaughan Variations', exploring themes from the work of the Breconshire poet Henry Vaughan. She edits poetry for Scintilla.Norman Schwenk was until his retirement Convenor of Creative Writing at Cardiff University. He now works as a freelance writer and teacher. He has two collections of verse in print, The Black Godess (Chiron Press) and How to Pronounce Welsh Place Names (Alley Press). American by birth, he has lived in Wales since the 1960's.
