{"id":8432,"date":"2023-12-31T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:24:55","slug":"press-excerpts-from-seasons-in-the-sun-winters-breath-3-poems-by-annest-gwilym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/press-excerpts-from-seasons-in-the-sun-winters-breath-3-poems-by-annest-gwilym\/","title":{"rendered":"Press. Excerpts from Seasons in the Sun. Winter&#8217;s Breath 3 Poems by Annest Gwilym"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\n<strong>Days like this to be read as honey<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>For the child I never had<\/em>\r\n<ol>\r\nI would give you:\r\nthe honeydrip of low sun on the horizon;\r\na cold that sugar-coats mountain tops,\r\ncollides cells and atoms;\r\nall the tree-lined hours of your dreams;\r\na moonsuck and sunstruck\r\nclock stuck at youth;\r\nfour seasons in a day.\r\n\r\nIn my witchery I would\r\nline up jars of bright starshine\r\non your windowsill;\r\nconjure Caravaggio days, \r\nraining pomegranate seeds;\r\ntrap it all in amber.\r\n\r\nAnd if you ever lived, \r\nyou could live it too.<\/ol>\r\n\r\nFirst published in the PK Project<em> Quixotic Travellers<\/em>, December 2018.\r\nAlso published in<em> Caught in the Net<\/em>, November 2019.\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>In the Immensity of Night<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\nThings with invisible hands\r\nunlatch the doors unseen\r\n\r\nCreep on silent feet\r\naround my floating bed\r\n\r\nTap their long, strong nails\r\non my wooden headboard\r\n\r\nWhisper poetry in my sleep\r\nwhich evaporates at dawn\r\n\r\nA crinkle of leaves gathers\r\nat the base of the bed\r\n\r\nWhile the sea laps at my front door\r\nlost and miles from home\r\n\r\nBaby crabs with tiny pincers\r\nknock, want to enter\r\n\r\nThe herons are watching\r\nas gulls tear candy-floss clouds\r\n\r\nOutside is dangerous, static-filled\r\ninside is better\r\n\r\nI pull the duvet under my chin\r\nI think I\u2019ll stay here<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<strong>Winter\u2019s Breath<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\nWinter\u2019s breath is snow-dust prophecy,\r\nhumus and moss-scented ache \r\nof leaf mould from autumn on the floor.\r\n\r\nUnder the cold, clear fire of stars\r\nits wind corrugates the sea\u2019s iron\r\nin the silent meadows of the night.\r\n\r\nWinter\u2019s woods are antlered, dark,\r\nfox-sharp, full of long, wolfish shadows\r\nthat follow you home.\r\n\r\nIts eye is pale, glaucous; air salted \r\nwith frost, whose sharp proboscis \r\nprobes every crack and crevice.\r\n\r\nWinter is a black and white country.\r\nThe old know this: it strips flesh\r\nfrom trees, flowers, bones.<\/ul>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/press-excerpts-from-seasons-in-the-sun-winters-breath-3-poems-by-annest-gwilym\/seasons-in-the-sun-back\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Seasons-in-the-Sun-Back-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Seasons-in-the-Sun-Back-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Seasons-in-the-Sun-Back.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carreg-gwalch.cymru\/seasons-in-the-sun-3008-p.asp\"> https:\/\/carreg-gwalch.cymru\/seasons-in-the-sun-3008-p.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/press-excerpts-from-seasons-in-the-sun-winters-breath-3-poems-by-annest-gwilym\/sanyo-digital-camera-2\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AnnestGwilym.2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AnnestGwilym.2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AnnestGwilym.2.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> Annest Gwilym<\/em><\/strong> is the author of three books of poetry.<em> Surfacing <\/em>(2018) and <em>What the Owl Taught Me<\/em> (2020), were both published by Lapwing Publications. What the<em> Owl Taught Me<\/em> was Poetry Kit\u2019s Book of the Month in June 2020 and one of <em>North of Oxford\u2019s<\/em> summer reading recommendations in 2020. Annest has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, both online and in print, and placed in several writing competitions, winning one. She was the editor of the webzine <em>Nine Muses Poetry <\/em>from 2018-2020. She was a nominee for Best of the Net 2021. Her third book of poetry \u2013<em> Seasons in the Sun<\/em> \u2013 was published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch in September 2023 and was Poetry Kit\u2019s Book of the Month in November 2023 as well as being one of their Christmas reading recommendations. She has been nominated for the Wales Book of the Year Award 2024\/Gwobr Llyfr y Flwyddyn 2024. <em>Seasons in the Sun <\/em> is available from Amazon and other places. 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