Description
A Last Respect celebrates the Roland Mathias Prize, awarded to outstanding poetry books by authors from Wales. It presents a selection of work from all eleven prize-winning books, by Dannie Abse, Tiffany Atkinson, Ruth Bidgood, Ailbhe Darcy, Rhian Edwards, Christine Evans, John Freeman, Philip Gross, Gwyneth Lewis, Robert Minhinnick, and Owen Sheers. It is a who’s who of contemporary poetry which shows the form in good health in Wales.
The fifty-four poems in A Last Respect range across a gamut of subjects – relationships, nature, environmental issues, mortality, time, war, Wales, poetry itself, even the minefield of parents evenings. They are inventive, experimental, formal, original and of the highest quality.
The poems are bookended by an essay by Professor Jane Aaron on the life and work of Roland Mathias, and an Afterword on him and on the state of poetry in Wales by Professor Daniel G Williams. These explorations of Mathias’ legacy make A Last Respect much more than an anthology by making it also an informative guide to poetry in Wales over the past fifty years.
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
How To Write Poems 
Confessional Sonnets 
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy 
Dog Poems 
States of Happiness 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes 
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots 
Gold from the Stone 
Selected Poetry 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Strong Words 
The Tamarit Poems 
Book of Mercy 
The Genre of Silence 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Signs Like This 
Hansel and Gretel 
The Art of Derek Walcott