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About the Book

In the latest ambitious offering from the Real - series, following acclaim for Real Cardiff and Real Cardiff Two, Finch takes on the alien land he didn't know was his, until he grew and went to see it: Real Wales. A cotton-wool nation, full of football and big-brother slim-screen television, or a land of demons, where white robed druids would wail at you through a never ending mist? In muscular, syncopated and witty prose, Finch presents 30 years of journeys through the familiar, the bizarre, and to all those places on the TV weather map he never before had cause to visit. In a country of small and scattered populations, who are all certain of who they are, and where doubt is a quality none possess, Finch comes across poetry in Merthyr, an abandoned castle in Dinas Powys, UFOs and Waldo Williams in West Wales, Jack Kerouac on the beach at Gwbert, the military at Epynt, bizarre sports in Llanwrtyd, flying gravy in Cricieth, panic on Snowdon, and a stripper at the Royal Welsh. Whether reading a mountain as Braille or clearing a tent at Hay with one poem, Finch seeks to embrace the permanently stern independence of spirit he sees across the country. Personal but never pedestrian, in a country where the past is so near the surface but can never quite be picked up, he accompanies oddballs and novelists, historians and local experts, to find something usually forgotten in a world of oil-powered multi-national commercial empires and federal enormity: Small is beautiful.

About the Author :
Peter Finch is a full-time poet, critic, author and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff, Wales. Until June 2011 he was Chief Executive of Literature Wales (formerly Academi), the Welsh National Literature Development Agency. As a writer he works in both traditional and experimental forms. He is best known for his declamatory poetry readings, his creative work based on his native city of Cardiff, his editing of Seren's Real series, and his knowledge of the UK poetry publishing scene.

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[H]is compelling, high energy, Beat prose contrasts starkly with his clipped, wry approach and occasional excursions into the realms of sound and found prose-poetry, echoing his experiments in verse. [ - ] He is never afraid to digress, and his digressions can be the most amusing parts. [ - ] Finch's eye for the socio-political changes in Wales is as keen as his sense of the mystical ley lines or the prevalence of legends.A" The Planet


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781854114839
  • Publisher: Poetry Wales Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Seren
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 160 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1854114832
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Returnable: Y


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