Gwyn Parry's lyric voice is inscribed with the rhythms and accents of his native Welsh; essentially, he is writing in Welsh through the medium of English. To read his poetry is to enter a transformational vision of the world, one that is alive to the beauty of the landscape and the grace of a people at one with their natural environment. In this collection, he faces his own native land, his own life, using a language and a form that is simple and yet compellingly intense. The result is a powerful confrontation with loss - loss of childhood, loss of the land itself, and the final wrenching loss of a beloved father. Parry's striking ability is to capture a vanishing world through the examination of his own life. Ultimately, what he offers us is a rare and precious gift; the truth of a life authentically lived.

Crossings is the third collection of poetry from Gwyn Parry, whose work has also been widely published in magazines and journals including, among many others, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland, The Anglo-Welsh Review, Planet Magazine, Acorn, The Connacht Tribune and Copacetic. His work has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and is included in Burning the Bracken (Seren Books), a recent anthology of Welsh writing. Gwyn Parry currently lives in Dublin where he is facilitator of the Dublin Writers' Workshop.

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