Damian Walford Davies je básnik, spisovateľ a libretista. Jeho diela sa hlboko ponárajú do literárnych tradícií a zároveň skúmajú moderné témy. Ako akademik sa špecializuje na romantizmus a literatúru Walesu, čo sa odráža v jeho poetickom jazyku a prepracovaných naratívoch. Jeho tvorba je cenená pre svoju intelektuálnu hĺbku a emocionálnu rezonanciu.
Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France. These poems conjure his career, his rivalries and his remarkable secret missions in the saddle during World War 2 carrying forged identity documents that saved the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews.
In Damian Walford Davies's compellingly eerie new poetry collection, Docklands - A Ghost Story, a louche architect is haunted by the ghost of a young girl through the booming docklands of Victorian Cardiff and the bourgeois drawing rooms of the expanding city.
An authoritative introduction by a leading Dylan Thomas scholar to the nature, cultural background, achievement and critical reception of this major poetOCOs work."
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.
A collection of poems that aims to celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of motality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings.