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Menna Elfyn

Cyplau

  • 1 Y cynta' i weld y môr | Translations: caen
  • 2 Gras Ar Ras | Translations: enit
  • 3 Dysgu Cymraeg i Awen Dylan Thomas | Translations: deen
  • 4 Drws yn Epynt | Translations: enzh
  • 5 Cyplau | Translations: enlt
  • 6 Catrin Glyndwr: Cyrraedd | Translations: arcaen
  • 7 Catrin Glyndwr: Colli Amser | Translations: aren
  • 8 Murmuron | Translations: deenzh
Language: welsh
Translations: english (Couplings), lithuanian (Jungtys)
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Cyplau

Murddyn yw byw. Ninnau, mynnwn ei drwsio
at ddiddosrwydd.  Gyda’n dwylo ei saernio 
 
at frig adeilad. Nes clymu o dano nenbren, 
a wylia holl fynd a dod ein byw heb wybren.
 
Dau rwymyn cam. Naddwyd hwy’n gyfan, 
yn gyffion cytun, yn drawstiau llyfn a llydan.
 
Cyfarfod dau. Dyna’r grefft a fagwn wrth amgau 
dros ffrâm dau gnawd gan asio’r llyfnus gyplau 
 
sydd weithiau’n enfysu’n un. Ar ogwydd uwch yr oerfyd, 
geubrennau’n chwiffio serch. Yna’n stond am ennyd.
 
A’r to mor elwig ar dro yn gwichian cariad
wrth ddwrdio’r gwyfyn draw. I aros tro ei gennad.

From: Perffaith Nam / Perfect Blemish
Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2007
Audio production: Wales Literature Exchange
Categories: life & relationship

Translations:

Language: english

Couplings

Life is a house in ruins. And we mean to fix it up
And make it snug. With our hands we knock it into shape

To the very top. Till beneath this we fasten a roofbeam
That will watch the coming and going of our skyless life,

Two crooked segments. They are fitted together,
Timbers in concord. Smooth beams, and wide.

Two in touch. That’s the craft we nurture in folding
Doubled flesh on a frame. Conjoining the smooth couplings

That sometimes arch into one. Aslant above a cold world,
Hollow wood wafting passion. Then stock still for a time.

And how clear cut the roof, creaking love at times,
As it chides the worm to keep off and await its turn.

Translated by Joseph P. Clancy
Language: lithuanian

Jungtys

Gyvenimas – apgriuvus buveinė. Geidžiam ją įsirengt,
Suteikt jaukumo. Savo rankom meistraujam pavidalą
 
ligi stogo viršūnės. Kol pastogėj sutvirtinam siją, kuri
stebės mūs būties de dangus pradžią ir pabaigą – 
 
du kertinius segmentus. Skersiniai harmoningai
prisitaiko vienas prie kito - glotnūs ir netašyti, 
 
poromis sujungti. Meistrystę ugdom kryžiiuodami
ant karkaso du kūnus, jungdami nuludintus galus,
 
arkas išgaubdami. Skersai virš abejingo pasaulio
išdouobtas medis padvelkia aistra. Vėliau aprimsta.
 
O kartais aiškiai girdėti stogo meilus girgždesys,
Jam niumant ant kirmėlės, kad nelįstų - palauktų savo eilės.

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Menna Elfyn

photo © Marian Delyth
* 1952, near Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
lives in: Llandysul, Wales, United Kingdom

Menna Elfyn is an award-winning poet and playwright. She has published fourteen collections of poetry, children’s novels, libretti for UK and US composers as well as plays for television and radio. Her latest collection Bondo (Bloodaxe Books) was published in 2017 and will be published in Italian in 2020. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages, her bilingual volume Murmur (Bloodaxe Books), was selected in autumn 2012 as Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, the first ever book in Welsh/English to be chosen. In 2009, she won an International Award for her contribution to Poetry in Sardinia.

 photo © Marian Delyth
Her biography of the Welsh poet Eluned Phillips was published by Gomer and the English translation Absolute Optimist (Honno) in 2018. Cennad (Barddas) a literary memoir was published in March 2018.  She has written half a dozen tribute poems to RS as well as a commissioned libretto ‘Hymn to a Welshman’, with composer Pwyll ap Siôn. The harpist Elinor Bennett performed the work at a premiere in Portmeirion in 2001. In 2015 she wrote the libretto Gair ar Gnawd/ Word on Flesh with Pwyll ap Siôn, for Welsh National Opera. First commissioned as an oratorio and following its success, further commissioned as a full-scale opera and later televised with surtitles (Rondo).

She is Professor of Poetry, President of Wales PEN Cymru and has been a columnist with the ‘Western Mail’ since 1994.

Publications
  • Mwyara

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1976

  • Stafelloedd Aros

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1978

  • Tro'r Haul Arno

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1982

  • Mynd Lawr i'r Nefoedd

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1986

  • Aderyn bach mewn Llaw

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1990

  • Eucalyptus: Detholiad o Gerddi / Selected Poems 1978-1994

    Bilingual collection

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1995

  • Cell Angel

    Bilingual collection

    Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 1996

  • Pontardawe

    Places, Y Man a'r Lle 10

    Prose poem/essay

    Gwasg Gregynog, 1998

  • Cusan Dyn Dall / Blind Man's Kiss

    Bilingual collection

    Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2001

  • Perffaith Nam

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 2005

  • Perfect Blemish / Perffaith Nam

    New & Selected Poems 1995- 2007/ Dau Ddetholiad a Cherddi Newydd

    Bilingual collection

    Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2007

  • Er Dy Fod

    Poetry for learners/learning a language

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 2007

  • Merch Perygl

    Cerddi 1976-2011

    Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 2011

  • Murmur

    Bilingual collection

    Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2012

  • Bondo

    Bilingual collection

    Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2017

Awards
  • 1977 Major Prize for Poetry at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham (for 'Stafelloedd Aros')

  • 1990 Wales Book of the Year for 'Aderyn Bach mewn Llaw'

  • 2002-03 Bardd Plant Cymru (Poet Laureate for the Children of Wales)

  • 2009 Anima Istanza Prize - contribution to Welsh literature

Links
  • Menna Elfyn

    Menna Elfyn's website

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