The Green Month

Delightful new versions of a great Welsh medieval poet's lyrics - intimate, urgent and timeless

Dafydd ap Gwilym, Wales's greatest poet, explored love, desire and the natural world with startling frankness and virtuoso wit. In a sequence freely adapted from Dafydd's work, Matthew Francis brings him to life for the modern English-speaking reader. Plants, birds and animals are fondly invoked while weather and the elements – wind, waves, fog and ice – play their part. These delightful poems remain, across the centuries, intimate, urgent and timeless.