Bondo by Menna Elfyn Rory Waterman the nightingale and more beloved

the nightingale and more beloved garden birds than you can rattle a feeder at

vital-tender

This enables him to write unforeseeable wordplays and images

where the animal lies shallowly below the surface of the human

Bondo by Menna Elfyn Rory Waterman the nightingale and more belovedMenna Elfyn's Bondo is her latest collection in Welsh and English. Her title means eaves in Welsh, referring to poems about getting close to language as sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically over a number of years. These meditative poems began simply as a personal engagement with the grief of Aberfan, expressing solidarity with a nations wound. Bondo is also the voice which echoes the role of th Welsh bard as remembrancer. Menna Elfyn is