Book description
A century after his death as a young man on a blood-soaked battlefield far from his mountain farm, Hedd Wyn's name remains seared on an entire nation's memory. His home has become a place of pilgrimage, and his story continues to sadden, anger and inspire us. This volume comprises a…
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I love this book.
I bought it from the bookshop at Hedd Wyn’s Eryri/Snowdonia museum-home Yr Ysgwrn, and I have returned to the poems and beautiful photos in it many times.
The poems are presented in Cymraeg and English, alongside evocative imagery of the area where Hedd Wyn lived. It’s a collection of poems that I find haunting, beautiful and simple, made all the sadder for the fact that Hedd Wyn, an established poet who had won several poetry awards, died within the first two hours of his first battle in July 1917 but went on to posthumously…
From Tesni's list on the home front, the war front and, on life as a PoW during World War One.
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