{"product_id":"9780141396934-the-book-of-taliesin","title":"The Book of Taliesin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaliesin's is one of the most important names in all Welsh literature - and one of its greatest mysteries. He has fascinated and inspired some of our greatest poets, including Tennyson and Robert Graves. He is a poet; a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword and with magic, between the ancient kingdoms of the fifth- and sixth-century British Isles; a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian theology; and a figure whose literary legend culminated with the compilation in thirteenth-century North Wales of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Taliesin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an anthology gathering the work of some 700 years of anonymous hands.In the first volume since 1915 to gather the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Taliesin\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein its entirety, Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's artfully accessible translation makes these outrageous, swaggering and joyful poems available to a new generation of readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRowan Williams is the former Archbishop of Canterbury and currently Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The author of many books from \u003ci\u003eThe Wound of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, he has published several poetry collections and is a contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGwyneth Lewis is an award-winning poet and was the National Poet of Wales from 2005 to 2006. Her books of poetry in Welsh and English include \u003ci\u003eChaotic Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSparrow Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTreiglo\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eMutating\u003c\/i\u003e) and, in prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Meat Tree- New Stories from the Mabinogion\u003c\/i\u003e. She is freelance and teaches at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34761342812318,"sku":"9780141396934","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0317\/8499\/2899\/products\/the-book-of-taliesin-9780141396934-912803.jpg?v=1690131614","url":"https:\/\/wanderingbookseller.com.au\/products\/9780141396934-the-book-of-taliesin","provider":"The Wandering Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}