Peacemakers: Collection Of Poetry

Out Of Print... Of all the great Welsh poets of this century, Waldo seems the most contemporary. He is the patron saint of the Language movement and of Pacifism in our time...Waldo appeals to an age which sets "caring" up as an absolute, which is suspicious of all-male approaches, and for which the threat to the futureto children, to humanity, to the earth itselfis a constant pre-occupation. Rapid and seemingly irreversible change breeds anxiety; and Waldo joy and sense of rightness can move one to tears. As someone once said of Wordsworth, he has a wisdom to offer'. Tony Conran's fine translations and introduction to the poems of Waldo Williams illustrate the vision, with both its joy and suffering, of one who was both a great poet and one of the best-loved people in Welsh Wales.