Paperback. ‘David Annwn’s work drills deep into strata of myth and history, exposing devices which resonate in new contexts. Faithful to the living moment, his poems dip, hover and dart through soundscapes rich with suggestion, rhythmically charged and etymologically playful. Formally adventurous and inviting disjunction, these texts retain a lyric coherence that powerfully renders layers of experience. The mode veers from jazzy to mystical, evoking in the reader both disturbance and content. Bela Fawr’s Cabaret has this recognisable stamp: music and legend ‘Knocked Abaht a Bit’, mischievous humour yielding subtle insight.’ Gavin Selerie

Price £14.00

136pp

ISBN
1-904052-24-1

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Danse Macabre: Death and the Printers

David Annwn, Kelvin Corcoran, Alan Halsey, Gavin Selerie

Published by West House Books / Ispress 1997

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Poems in response to the famous woodcut of 1499 showing skeleton Deaths fetching the workers from a printer’s office. The image, which originally appeared in Hus’s edition of the Danse Macabre, is the first known illustration of a printshop. The poems range through a variety of themes, historical and contemporary, and consider the Faust myth in relation to new technology.

Price £6.00

40pp

ISBN
0952189194

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Euro6oros

David Annwn

Published by Ispress 2002

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Poem. ‘Annwn’s challenge is that one should keep up with him and his Eurobus, his Occident Express, as it races through an intellectualised landscape full of data, scraps of arcane knowledge, popular culture and contemporary myth-making.’ (John Mole)

Price £5.00

32pp

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Hear the Voice of the Bard!

David Annwn

Published by West House Books 1995

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture to the Blake Society in 1994, David Annwn considers the origin of William Blake’s vision of the Bard, tracing it back through Thomas Gray to the great Welsh bardic poems of Aneurin and Taliesin. He goes on to follow its recent history, from W.B.Yeats to the modernist poetics of Robert Duncan. Typeset at Five Seasons Press.

Price £6.00

32pp

ISBN
0952189119

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The Last Hunting of the Lizopard

David Annwn, Alan Halsey

Published by West House 2007

Limitation 150 copies numbered & signed by author & artist

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

8 b/w images (approx. 165 x 110 mm) by Halsey, text by Annwn. Typeset & handsewn at Five Seasons Press, digital reproduction by Reprodux, Hereford. ‘Does the diet of the lizopard consist only of books? I can comprehend vellum’s attraction, and good whetting it is for the teeth. The fibres of the pages would certainly give some filling but not nourishment enough. Perhaps it is the readers whose flesh is required. The body of the reader was always necessary for the books of the lizopard to live fully. We might sense the book’s brooding content on its shelf, shadowed in unrealised potential, but as soon as we open its hide we are devoured, and our very essence is life blood to the lizopard.’ Martin Corless-Smith

Price £14.00

20pp

ISBN
978-1-904052-23-4

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Turbulent Boundaries

David Annwn

Published by West House Books 1999

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Poems. The Caseg-Fedi, the Celtic harvest horse, and the ancient Goddess-centred ceremonies of August preside over this sequence by Anglo-Welsh poet David Annwn. Turbulent layers: languages of conflicting technologies, nations and claims on human consciousness push at their boundaries ...

Price £5.00

24pp

ISBN
0953150925

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