With just a week to go before the start of our Seren Cornerstone Poetry Festival, our Friday Poem is from of the authors performing – Yvonne Reddick. ‘Vésuve 1857’ is taken from her Mslexia Prize-winning pamphlet, Translating Mountains.
The poems of Translating Mountains are multi-layered compositions. They tell of grief for a beloved father as well as a close friend, who both died in mountain-climbing accidents. The author’s own love of mountaineering comes through with her vividly described sections of action: grappling with tie-lines, slopes and ravines, of aspiring to glorious heights while coping with treacherous and changeable weathers.
These poems are also hymns to stunning landscapes, with mountains and place names often in a craggy, atmospheric Gaelic. Full of tension, emotion and action, this is writing that grips and holds our attention.
Catch Yvonne Reddick at the Seren Cornerstone Poetry Festival on Sunday 10 February alongside a chorus of Mslexia Prize-winners – tickets available now.
Translating Mountains is available on the Seren website: £5.00
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