Menna Elfyn

Murmuron

língua: galês

Traduções : alemão (Ein Murmeln), inglês (Murmurs), chinês (細語)

Murmuron

Sut mae byw yn drugarog
yn y byd hwn?
Dyna’r cwest, a’r cwestiwn.

Sut mae cerdded yn ddistaw
heb waedd yn y gwyll?
Na’r un cysgod erchyll.

A throedio’r byd hwn fel pe bai
baban yn cysgu yn y ‘stafell drws nesa’,
fel y rhown y byd rhag iddo ddeffro.

Murmur bendithion
o gylch y muriau
A gwres serch yn ei seiliau.

Menna Elfyn

Foto © Marian Delyth

* 1952, near Swansea, Wales, Reino Unido
vive em: Llandysul, Wales, Reino Unido

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.

Foto © 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.

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