Roots Home

Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of our major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home . As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She combines two elements. Seven vivid essay-meditations, informed by (among others) Dylan Thomas, George Herbert, and W.B. Yeats, explore the ways in which poetry bears witness to what is and what might be, presence and transcendence in a threatened world. The meditations precede a journal that runs from Ja