Still Here by Elin ap Hywel, trans. Laura Fisk illness As the book progresses

As the book progresses

Chen Chen's debut When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was published in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2019

dodging and playing with logic to create a brand new poetics

And yet this collection of beautifully crafted poems makes complete sense

that silence deepens

Still Here by Elin ap Hywel, trans. Laura Fisk illness As the book progressesPublished 31st October 2025. Elin ap Hywels Still Here, translated by Laura Fisk, is a resonant and formally diverse collection that weaves together myth, memory, politics, and personal reflection across shifting poetic registers. Drawing from Welsh history and folklore, ap Hywels writing moves from lyrical meditations on landscape and loss to sharply observed, quietly subversive commentaries on gender, identity, and domestic ritual. The poems often