Murmur

Menna Elfyn''s latest collection in Welsh and English is full of murmurings, such as the need ''to walk the earth as if there''s a baby sleeping next door''. Murmur is a poetry of meditation, from the reverberations of dead poets to murmurs of the heart which force the poet to dwell on the irregular beat of the poet''s lot. Distant sounds too are heard from captivity in a sequence of poems about t...