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.
Soemps 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Slipping the Leash 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
The Handle of the Door 
The Silvering 
The 'White City' 
States of Happiness 
Hansel and Gretel 
Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth 
The Tamarit Poems 
Dog Poems 
Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems 
Floss 
Strong in the Rain 
Steep Tea 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Florilingua