The Mabinogi av Matthew Francis

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<p><i>Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry </i><br><br>¿Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is riding<br>through the space between one world and another . . .¿ <br><br>The <i>Mabinogi</i> is the Welsh national epic, a collection of prose tales of war and enchantment, adventure and romance, which have long fascinated readers all over the world. Matthew Francis¿s retelling of the first four stories (the Four Branches of the <i>Mabinogi</i>) is the first to situate it in poetry, and captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world: a baby is kidnapped by a monstrous claw, a giant wades across the Irish Sea to do battle, a wizard makes a woman out of flowers, only to find she is less biddable than he expected. Permeating the whole sequence is a delight in the power of the imagination to transform human experience into works of tragedy, comedy and wonder.<br><br>The <i>Mabinogi </i>is an important contribution to the storytelling of the British Isl