Damian Walford Davies è un poeta, scrittore e librettista la cui opera si immerge profondamente nelle tradizioni letterarie esplorando al contempo temi contemporanei. La sua specializzazione accademica nel Romanticismo e nelle letterature gallesi informa un linguaggio poetico e narrazioni complesse che risuonano con profondità intellettuale e potere emotivo. Crea una voce distintiva che unisce l'acume accademico a un'espressione artistica avvincente.
In Damian Walford Davies's compellingly eerie new poetry collection, Docklands - A Ghost Story, a louche architect is haunted by the ghost of a young girl through the booming docklands of Victorian Cardiff and the bourgeois drawing rooms of the expanding city.
An authoritative introduction by a leading Dylan Thomas scholar to the nature, cultural background, achievement and critical reception of this major poetOCOs work."
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.
Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France. These poems conjure his career, his rivalries and his remarkable secret missions in the saddle during World War 2 carrying forged identity documents that saved the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews.