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Banerog

The 98 strict and free-metre poems included in Banerog exemplify the creative application of research questions and findings and the collection contributes to, and analyses human-environment interactions through creative practice. Drawing on the poet’s geographical research into hydrology, geomorphology and memory, the poems in the collection examine the relationships between landscape, politics, place and language, and also articulate his subjective experience in twenty-first century Wales. Poems explore the way in which the physical landscape of Wales is experienced, notably its aquatic spaces (rivers and beaches) and its urban environments. The poet experiments with genre and form: he encompasses the public and private spheres and also switches from concise englynion to extended odes in which the full potential of metaphors are explored. The poet operates on a variety of spatial scales, and the political and environmental tensions that he identifies in a Welsh context assume relevance that is, at once, localised and global. The collection, shortlisted for the Welsh Book of the Year Prize, includes the prize-winning short collection ‘Stryd Pleser’ that examines the tensions experienced in, and created by, Welsh-language communities in Cardiff. The collection displays a progression from some of the poet's earliest work published before 2008 (approximately 10% of the collection, primarily prize winning poems from the Urdd National Eisteddfod and elsewhere).