Peter Finch

Five Hundred Cobbings

An updated and expanded volume of poetry by the provocative, and often hilarious, poet Peter Finch. It also included many poems from subsequent collections. By the author of Real Cardiff and Real Cardiff 2.

Selected Later Poems

Nellie S. Huang

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In his youth, Peter Finch wove his way through a series of exploits and adventures. Travels took him to Canada, where a fateful encounter in the Rocky Mountains opened up new horizons. In midlife he and his wife Gundi made the shift to country living, ushering in a new phase in their life, as they set down roots in the hills and settled into a deliberately simplified lifestyle. Peter relates how he and Gundi immersed themselves in ways guided by nature. As she created and sold glass sculptures, he sunk his hands and tools into pure glacial-till soils, sowing, planting, and growing culinary and medicinal herbs, heirloom vegetables and salad greens to take to farmers markets and restaurants in and around Toronto. Invigorated by the pleasures and health benefits of growing, selling, and eating fresh organic food, Peter reveals how he became a passionate advocate of traditional, small-scale, chemical-free farming. High Up in the Rolling Hills shares the personal journey of an independent couple as they explore the vital role of nature, creativity, and healthy food in life.

A Living on the Land

High Up in the Rolling Hills

Discover more of Cardiff in this latest volume, discovering new treasures and revisiting past haunts to find them drastically altered over just ten years. The pace of change has never been quicker, surpassing the booms of the city's nineteenth century heyday, and the clearances and redevelopment of the 1960s and 1970s. Here are the last days of Dic Penderyn, the ornate Mahogany Room above Burger King, the battle for the Vulcan pub, the wedding at Charles Street Carnival, the inside track on Howell's School, the Cross at Culver, the Great Heath, and the lure of Penylan Quarry, among so many other excursions. Jan Morris called Real Cardiff "one of the very best books about a city I have ever read", and in this latest book Peter Finch has captured the essence of Cardiff again. Whether you are a Cardiffian or an outsider this book continues the story of Cardiff, and of so many places.

Real Cardiff

The Severn Estuary: border, trade route, home of industry and leisure. Peter Finch walks the Welsh and English sides and explores its significance past and present, to him and the people who live by it, from tidal Maismore to Worm's Head and Lynmouth. In the Middle Ages the port of Cardiff stretched from Chepstow to Gower. Peter Finch, archetypal Cardiffian, sets out to explore his heritage, walking the Welsh side of the Severn Estuary and reclaiming his personal memories in addition to discovering the lives of others. And with a detour to Maismore, the highest tidal point of the estuary, he walks the English side too, taking in the differences with Wales, reviving past links and looking at his homeland from abroad. On his journey he sees the estuary as border, a highway for trade and ideas, an industrial zone, and a place where people spend their leisure. Rich in anecdote, evocative in description, Finch s book takes in villages and cities, power stations and fishermen, castles and caravans, leg-aching walks and deckchairs on the beach. The tragedy of Lynmouth, the competing delights of Porthcawl, Barry and Weston-super-Mare, the industrial sites of Usk and Port Talbot, the fate of Cardiff, Newport and Swansea docks, the ancient trackways of Swansea Bay and the Star Inn at Neath are just some of the many stories which punctuate Finch s epic walk along some of the most beautiful coastline in Britain.

Edging the Estuary

Exploring the themes and landscapes of postindustrial Cardiff, this third installment of the Cardiff trilogy contains both observations and research on this changing city. Combining historical narrative with personal anecdotes, this journey blends pathos and comedy into a nostalgic, yet blistering, commentary about this historic city. From new shopping and housing developments to the forgotten railways, this exploration studies the people and places that fall between.

The Changing City

Real Cardiff Three

This sequel offers another unorthodox travel guide to Cardiff, Wales. Part history, part topographical writing, and part traditional guidebook, this work explores Cardiff's best off-the-beaten-path destinations such as Ninian Park, Howell's Girls School, Cae'r Castell, and Steep Holm.

The Greater City

Real Cardiff Two

Poet and psychogeographer Peter Finch undertakes 20 walks around his native city, picking out features en route and providing interesting stories, historical and contemporary, about life in the city past and present. His sharp eye and compendious knowledge of Cardiff is illustrated by photographer John Briggs' images in a lively guide to the city.

Walking Cardiff

Niall Griffiths

This guidebook provides a remarkable overview of the Welsh town Aberystwyth--a community of two languages that contains a university, a farming community, a port-turned-marina, the National Library of Wales, provides a home for writers and spies alike, and was also made recently famous--or infamous--by Malcolm Pryce’s novels. The travel guide details an enthralling account of a city that is any number of conflicting and complimentary things--from its medieval beginnings through its Victorian heyday to the fluid mix of longstanding natives, large student population, and colony of those who came and never left. Mixing autobiography with topography, aligning the oblique approach with historical report, and contrasting the prosaic with the downright odd, this study paints a vivid picture of a world-famous town.

Real Aberystwyth

Ever wondered if there was another way of doing it? Poems for Ghosts takes up where his Selected Poems left off. A compendium of modernist plunder, this is no collection for lovers of the traditionally tame. Sound poems, found poems, straight poems, hooliganism restructured, protests at the ruination of heritage, passionate pleas for language. These are innovations, literate blasts, performances. Finch wittily re-arranges our perception of poetry: kippers rub shoulders with Dutchmen, out at the edge America vanishes, the rain falls steadily on our sheep-filled hills. Who else could have suggested that the Welsh might have invented dada?

Poems for Ghosts

"This unorthodox travel guide to Cardiff, Wales, is part history, part topographical writing, and part traditional guidebook. Interspersed with quirky photographs and poems, this stunning and at times comic work explores both the expected, such as splendid Victorian architecture, and the unexpected, such as lost rivers, a Roman fort, holy wells, old race courses, and medieval churches."

John Osmond

John Briggs

Cyfrol i ddathlu 25 mlynedd ers sefydlu'r Sefydliad Materion Cymreig, yn cynnwys cyfraniadau gan 25 o Gymry sy'n myfyrio ar eu profiadau yn ystod y 25 mlynedd a aeth heibio, ynghyd â chofnodi eu gobeithion am y 25 mlynedd nesaf. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

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