Silver Branch: Bardic Poems & Letters to a Young Bard

by Kevan Manwaring, Caitlín Matthews (Foreword)

What does it mean to write and perform bardic poetry in the twenty-first century? This monumental collection, from the author of The Bardic Handbook and The Way of Awen , brings together 25 years of selected verse to explore that challenge. The diverse range of poems can be enjoyed for their own sake and will also inspire others to craft and voice their own creative responses to identity, ecology, and community, grounded in the body, the land, and conviction. Silver Branch includes an introduction to the author's practice as a performance poet, originally published as Speak Like Rain , along with the Bardic-Chair-winning poem Spring Fall ; Bio*Wolf ; Green Fire ; Dragon Dance ; The Taliesin Soliloquies ; Thirteen Treasures ; poems from the stage shows Arthur's Dream , Robin of the Wildwood , Return to Arcadia , and Song of the Windsmith ; plus more recent bardic poems and songs.

314 pages, Paperback

Published August 19, 2018

About the author

Kevan Manwaring is a prize-winning writer & lecturer in creative writing who lives on the ancient downs of Wiltshire. He is the author of over twenty books including The Windsmith Elegy series of Mythic Reality novels; Desiring Dragons, Oxfordshire Folk Tales, Northamptonshire Folk Tales, The Bardic Handbook, and Ballad Tales (ed.). He loves walking in other worlds, but sometimes he prefers to ride his Triumph motorbike.

Winner of the One Giant Write SF Novel Competition