Reviews for The shores of Lleyn

The average rating for The shores of Lleyn based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-25 00:00:00 Mike Carter After the joyous rumbustiousness of The Rattle Bag, The School Bag feels an altogether more staid affair. Of course this is reflected in the titles of the two books and there is a rather more didactic feel to The School Bag, as if to say "OK, you've had your fun, now sit down and read some educationally improving poetry." It also has something of a feel of a parlour game that Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney decided to play together - only one poem from a poet allowed and all of the poems to be joined together in a thematic chain. The plus of the anthology is that, playing by these rules, a good 90% or so of the poems were new to me, although I can't say that there were that many new ones that really made an impact. One or two made me wonder why they had been chosen at all. All in all it felt a little like the B-sides of those that had made it into The Rattle Bag. Just once Hughes and Heaney slipped up. John Clare's The Badger somehow made it into both volumes.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-09 00:00:00 YVETTE SHANK Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney present a collection of varied poetry from ancient times to modern. A good place to start in poetry reading and it also helps to weed out a lot of the dross, and IMHO, there is an awful lot of that amongst poetry.