Roots Home

Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022.

Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home.

As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She combines two elements. Seven vivid essay-meditations, informed by (among others) Dylan Thomas, George Herbert and W. B. Yeats, explore the ways in which poetry bears witness to what is and what might be, presence and transcendence in a threatened world....