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Since the age of seventeen, Giles Watson has been fascinated by the work of the fourteenth century Welsh poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym, and has previously published modern English paraphrases of his work. At the end of an eighteen year stay in the United Kingdom, he took a trip from his home in rural Oxfordshire to Dafydd's burial place at Ystrad Fflur in Ceredigion. The title poem in this collection is the result of his vigil at the yew tree that ma...

Saints, Birds and Devils takes readers on a poetic tour of mediaeval European history, with a focus on the relationships between birds and human beings. The poems respond to a wide range of sources from the Middle Ages, from Icelandic romances and Norse legends, to stories from the lives of saints, monarchs and scholars. The collection concludes with a series of paraphrases of mediaeval poems in modern English. Illustrated by the author with m...

In this sixth collection of twelve paintings and twelve poems, John Lincoln and Giles Watson explore the colourful and often sensual world of flowers: the sexual organs of plants.

The shadow of Fascism spreads across Italy as Mimma, a young journalist from Turin, takes refuge at her Uncle Lorenzo's nightclub in Soho, London. As another World War becomes inevitable, Mimma forges an unassailable friendship with Sarah, an aspiring jazz singer, while her family are increasingly embroiled in resistance against Mussolini. The coming conflict brings out the best and worst in people as Mimma's brother is captured, Londoners pre...

I Dream in White Horses' is a collection of lyric poems inspired by the Ridgeway Path, accompanied by the author's own paintings and pastels. The poems celebrate the path itself, but also the trees, ancient monuments, wildflowers and insects which may be found along its course, or by diverting down roads into the Vale of the White Horse. The images which accompany the text include watercolours, gouaches, and - appropriately - soft chalk pastel...

From one October to the next, Giles Watson's lyric poems celebrate the landscape, antiquities, flora and fauna of the Ridgeway Path. Each poem is accompanied by a photograph, and arranged in order from one October to the next, building a beautiful impression of the serendipitous experience of walking this ancient road throughout all seasons of the English year.

Between 31 March and 13 May, 2020, Giles Watson went into self-isolation during the Covid-19 outbreak, and sought mental and spiritual refreshment in memories of some of his most beloved landscapes.Illustrated with photographs from his years in England, A Glister of Leaves revisits the megalithic monuments, woodlands and chalk downlands of southern Oxfordshire, recalls encounters with exquisite insects, and celebrates the gifts of solitude and...

Between 31 March and 13 May, 2020, Giles Watson went into self-isolation during the Covid-19 outbreak, and sought mental and spiritual refreshment in memories of some of his most beloved landscapes.Illustrated with photographs from his years in England, A Glister of Leaves revisits the megalithic monuments, woodlands and chalk downlands of southern Oxfordshire, recalls encounters with exquisite insects, and celebrates the gifts of solitude and...

In this companion volume to their earlier collaboration, 'Recollections', Giles Watson's poems and Martin Williamson's photographs combine to evoke the changing moods of the seasons of a British year from one winter to another.

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Recollections' takes readers on a tour through England and Wales, in search of ancient landscapes, churches, abbeys, hillforts and castles. Martin Williamson's vivid, colourful, energetic paintings are accompanied by Giles Watson's poems, which evoke memories of two decades spent exploring these treasured, sacred places. Texts and images alike will appeal to anyone who is fascinated by the landscape, history and traditions of the British Isles...

A visual metaphor, an archetype and a place to which we may retreat in our dreams: many of us have secret garden in our unconscious, or even in our conscious fantasies. These drawings and poems explore the tension between nature and nurture which is characteristic both of real gardens, and of the gardens in our imagination.

John Lincoln's system of drawing or doodling using hundreds, perhaps thousands of circles drawn with a fibre-tip pen is a technique of automatic drawing derived from what the surrealist André Breton called "Pure psychic automatism". The results can be understood at a number of levels from simple diagrams to symbols and visual metaphors, all of which offer analogies for human thought and experience: images which touch on the unconscious. Giles ...

This fifth collection of twelve paintings by John Lincoln and twelve poems by Giles Watson explores the theme of seeds: repositories of potential life and growth.

This fourth book in a series, featuring poems by Giles Watson and paintings by John Lincoln, takes its inspiration from the folklore surrounding twelve species of British birds.

An otherworldly poem, illustrated with photographs by the author, 'Isola' is lyrical, contemplative and enigmatic.

From legends of the Furies to the shower scene from 'Psycho', from the gentleness of Melangell to the fury of Andraste, this collection explores folk-tales and myths through a range of different voices. Giles Watson's dramatic monologues and idiosyncratic poetic narratives are complemented by beautiful and often unsettling illustrations by Buffarches.

The fourteenth century Welsh bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym, left a lasting impression on the poetry of his age: verse which often addressed preoccupations we still share today. This collection includes love poems, a lament for a felled tree, extravagant praises for wealthy patrons - including the Welsh freedom-fighter Owain Glynd

These twelve pictures by John Lincoln and twelve poems by Giles Watson are united by their emphasis on the shades of yellow which lend such vibrance to natural scenes. From the colours of leaves and catkins, through evening reflections on the surface of a pool, to the hues of sunlight itself, the paintings and poems dwell on the subject of illumination in nature.

This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms. The essays attend to evaluations of speech styles across nations. No previous work has embraced this comparative perspective globally, but such a volume that situates language and attitude research in the 21st century is long overdue. T...