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Words from the Wall includes poems about the killing fields of Agincourt
Sometimes a tornado can be more beautiful than it is destructive
’— Valerie Wallace‘A compassionate recorder of our fallible bodies
which Vakalo herself designed
Love letters come from Libya and desperate postcards from Powys
The Gododdin by Aneirin, trans. By Gillian Clarke James Davies Words from the Wall includesThe Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down in early Welsh by two medieval scribes. It is composed of one
