the rush of Brackenbury's poems are a work in wonderful progress
and has alternated between the two languages since (with occasional forays into French and Italian)
he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends
Here the theme is his arrival in England as a child in 1956
Coined by Ned Sherrin as “the master of the short poem” his work has also been described as “absolutely beautiful” by Alexander Waugh with Iain Anderson of BBC Scotland noting that it was “philosophy in poetry form” and the Sunday Times commenting on its “dramatic passion and dignity”
Parch by Menna Elfyn, trans. Emma Baines, Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn, Robert Minhinnick and R.S. Thomas Eyewear Publishing the rush of Brackenbury's poemsPublished 23rd October 2025. Menna Elfyn is the best known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh language poets until now writing exclusively in Welsh. Her work has been translated into English and other languages by leading poets from around the world. Following many years of campaigning, Menna Elfyn is moving towards her own sense of resolution as the Welsh language is now accepted and respected as an official language in Wales. In this