I have been dipping into this anthology over the last few months and I have enjoyed the mix of poems and prose. One of the interesting features is most of the prose is snippets taken from larger autobiographical works of writers whose mature voice you are familiar with and in some it is clear that they are using that mature voice to reflect on their childhood while other narrate whatever the incident is firmly within the experience of childhood.
This is loosely a 'Welsh' collection but there is not much within it that could not have been written in an English context. For me where there was a foreignness about the collection its due to much of it coming from rural settings in the early to mid twentieth century and therefore the absence of most of the 'comforts' we now not only taken for granted but find civilised live unimanginable without.
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