Bondo by Menna Elfyn Malika Booker instead offering a fresh perspective

instead offering a fresh perspective on a vital yet hidden part of our world

and confirms his place 'among the finest of our poets' (Melvin Bragg)

Emily Hasler

as well as poets who’ve spent time in the North-East

and meditations on the lot of refugees

Bondo by Menna Elfyn Malika Booker instead offering a fresh perspectiveMenna Elfyn's Bondo is her latest collection in Welsh and English. Her title means eaves in Welsh, referring to poems about getting close to language as sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically over a number of years. These meditative poems began simply as a personal engagement with the grief of Aberfan, expressing solidarity with a nations wound. Bondo is also the voice which echoes the role of th Welsh bard as remembrancer. Menna Elfyn is