Bondo by Menna Elfyn Malika Booker  The Autistic Alice

 The Autistic Alice

as well as poets who’ve spent time in the North-East

 Being Human is a companion volume to those two books – a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even broader

mercury and sulphur

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Bondo by Menna Elfyn Malika Booker  The Autistic AliceMenna Elfyn's Bondo is her latest collection in Welsh and English. Her title means eaves in Welsh, referring to poems about getting close to language as sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically over a number of years. These meditative poems began simply as a personal engagement with the grief of Aberfan, expressing solidarity with a nations wound. Bondo is also the voice which echoes the role of th Welsh bard as remembrancer. Menna Elfyn is