Damian Walford Davies is een dichter, schrijver en librettist wiens werk diep geworteld is in literaire tradities en tegelijkertijd hedendaagse thema's verkent. Zijn academische specialisatie in de Romantiek en de Welshe literatuur informeert een poëtische taal en ingewikkelde verhalen die resoneren met intellectuele diepgang en emotionele kracht. Hij creëert een onderscheidende stem die academische inzichten combineert met boeiende artistieke expressie.
Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France. These poems conjure his career, his rivalries and his remarkable secret missions in the saddle during World War 2 carrying forged identity documents that saved the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews.
In Damian Walford Davies's compellingly eerie new poetry collection, Docklands - A Ghost Story, a louche architect is haunted by the ghost of a young girl through the booming docklands of Victorian Cardiff and the bourgeois drawing rooms of the expanding city.
An authoritative introduction by a leading Dylan Thomas scholar to the nature, cultural background, achievement and critical reception of this major poetOCOs work."
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.