Ahadada Books is pleased to present Bela Fawr's Cabaret by David Annwn. You may order our newest title by clicking here. It's now available from Small Press Distribution, please click here!

Writes Gavin Selerie: "David Annwn’s work drills deep into strata of myth and history."

He continues:

...exposing devices which resonate in new contexts. Faithful to the living moment, his poems dip, hover and dart through soundscapes rich with suggestion, rhythmically charged and etymologically playful. Formally adventurous and inviting disjunction, these texts retain a lyric coherence that powerfully renders layers of experience. The mode veers from jazzy to mystical, evoking in the reader both disturbance and content. Bela Fawr’s Cabaret has this recognisable stamp: music and legend ‘Knocked Abaht a Bit’, mischievous humour yielding subtle insight...

On earlier books by David Annwn

Annwn’s turbulent//boundaries forces the limits of boundaries by making them jostle and ultimately confront each other ... bacchanalian feast of pagan rite meets media hype ... ancient meets modern and languages of nations meet each other head-on with delicious abandon and undiluted energy.’
    —Geraldine Monk

Blake’s Kayak: ‘This “descriptive catalogue of pictures, poetical and historical inventions” maximizes Blake and Blake, simultaneously emphasising similarities yet focusing on strategic particulars, hence the “Rob Roy canoe” informs us that “Blake wasn’t a swimmer” though for both writer and reader “the effect is that of looking through water / down into wondrous depths”. Annwn’s project is one of temporal range and linguistic complexity, informed by an incisive historical lens, uniquely evoking a provocative mapping beyond any “geographic”.’
    —Karen Mac Cormack

About David Annwn

David Annwn is a poet and critic who lives in Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK. He lectures for the Open University in Manchester. He is a recipient of the Cardiff International Poetry Award and a Ferguson Centre award for African and Asian Studies.Most recent amongst his books are the collaborations: It Means Nothing To Me, (with Geraldine Monk), and The Last Hunting of the Lizopard, (with Alan Halsey.) One of his poems has been made into a book of calligraphy by Thomas Ingmire for the San Francisco Libraries Collection.