Ruth Bidgood by Matthew Jarvis
This is the first full-length scholarly study of the prize-winning poet Ruth Bidgood, a writer who is best known for her long-term literary engagement with the landscape and communities of the mid-Wales region she has made her home.
'With its persuasively argued thesis, that Ruth Bidgood's twelve poetry collections compose in effect one integrated epic poem in praise of mid Wales - its history, its inhabitants, its traditions, and its landscape - this thoughtful, thoroughly researched book casts new light on its subjectBidgood's achievement stands out clearly from its pages, which ring true, like her poems.' Professor Jane Aaron "Ruth Bidgood is a poet of subtle complexities. "It takes a particularly sensitive and incisive critic to do her work justice. Matthew Jarvis is such a critic and, in its attentiveness to language and environment, this volume in the Writers of Wales series is a major contribution to the study of Welsh poetry in English. Jarvis's superbly attentive readings should lead to a broader appreciation of Ruth Bidgood's distinctive contribution to Anglophone poetry." Daniel G. Williams, Swansea University
Mathew Jarvis is a professor at the University of Aberystwyth and co-chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English. His research interests include the construction of Welsh place and space in literature and environmental approaches to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780708325223 |
| ISBN 10 | 070832522X |
| Title | Ruth Bidgood |
| Author | Matthew Jarvis |
| Series | Writers Of Wales |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2012-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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