The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses

A varied volume centers on a prize-winning narrative poem that dramatizes the final days and tragic death of Saul in episodic form, and surrounds it with a wide assortment of occasional, devotional, and lyrical pieces. The sequence includes elegies and monodies for public figures and private losses, patriotic and religious stanzas, Welsh-language lines, moral proverbs, humorous epigrams, and poems responding to local disasters and public events. Voices range from sonorous, rhetorical passages to homely, didactic verse, reflecting composition across many years and the author’s experience balancing press work with poetic practice, with a prefatory note on the Eisteddfod competition context.