{"id":6725,"date":"2021-11-15T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:42:02","slug":"nerys-williams-this-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6725\/nerys-williams-this-new-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerys Williams: This New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

This New Life <\/strong><\/p>\n

In grieving love<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cymer fy llygaid<\/em><\/p>\n

See thought my sight<\/p>\n

it frames the imaginary<\/p>\n

recentring space<\/p>\n

occupying the circumference<\/p>\n

How love becomes my body<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anadl mewn<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cri\u2019r canu<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F\u2019 enaid noeth<\/em><\/p>\n

Bleached\u00a0 and bounded<\/p>\n

Soul-saviour nude<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canna f\u2019enaid yn y gwaed<\/em><\/p>\n

Downward sight<\/p>\n

its encounter<\/p>\n

Love\u2019s pallor<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canna fi \/\/ cana fi<\/em><\/p>\n

Sing the rememory<\/p>\n

clear sighted<\/p>\n

salt-lipped.<\/p>\n

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Proem<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the age of nine the girl felt thunder in her chest, a catching, its glance to be hurt and happy simultaneously<\/em>. In re-reading Dante\u2019s The New Life,<\/em> she was struck by its anatomy of the emotions, how the lyric I and the spectating eye work in tandem. She caught his glance, remembered the veins on his arms, kicked her trainers in the dirt. The succession of Gabriel blonded \u00a0boys – a pattern of occurrences that followed her as a teenager into adulthood.<\/em> The significance of Dante using the nine-year intervals; meeting Beatrice at 9 losing her at 18 although literary historians challenge this as a strategic \u2018framing\u2019. Even in the 1970s unuttered love is most potent<\/em>. It was so easy being ironic when love flattened into disco, bodywarmers red, blue, green and yellow lights in a village hall.<\/em> Dante\u2019s thinking is itself \u2018a poetics\u2019. She learnt how love starts with the eyes and ends with the mouth, he was stacking the dishwasher at Welsh language camp, wearing <\/em>a Synchronicity t-shirt.<\/em> Was Dante\u2019s reference to the centre of the circumference, a reference to man- \u2018with you it is not thus\u2019 he says. Did he have a premonition of her death? I am turning the speculative sight from boy to girl to woman and man. Eyes downturned she smiled. But then looked back hungrily, as he walked towards her<\/em>. Asked her to dance. The PA was playing Welsh folk music- the dancers were in a ring<\/em>. The poet adds: And here my senses clamour in the rout. She spoke in surprised broken Welsh. \u2018Mor bles\u2019, more blessed.<\/p>\n

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Originally from West Wales, Nerys Williams lives in Kells Co Meath and lectures in poetry and poetics at University College, Dublin. She is the author of two volumes of poetry Sound Archive<\/em> (Seren 2012), Cabaret <\/em>(New Dublin Press, 2017) and a third Republic<\/em> (prose poems) is forthcoming from Seren in 2023. \u00a0Nerys has written books and articles on modern and contemporary poetry. She is currently writing on the collaborative relationship between poets and radio producers at the BBC\u2019s Third Programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This New Life In grieving love \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cymer fy llygaid See thought my sight it frames the imaginary recentring space occupying the circumference How love becomes my body \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anadl mewn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0cri\u2019r canu \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F\u2019 enaid noeth Bleached\u00a0 and bounded Soul-saviour nude \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canna f\u2019enaid yn y gwaed Downward sight its encounter Love\u2019s pallor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[64,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/images-2.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1Kt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/7524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}