Murmur by Menna Elfyn #Greekpoetry Published in association with the

Published in association with the Wordsworth Trust

Marie Naughton

to push the boundaries of poetic genre

He sits and listens to sounds from past summers

Murmur by Menna Elfyn #Greekpoetry Published in association with thePoetry Book Society Recommended Translation Menna Elfyn's latest collection in Welsh and English is full of murmurings, such as the need to walk the earth as if theres a baby sleeping next door. Murmur is a poetry of meditation, from the reverberations of dead poets to murmurs of the heart which force the poet to dwell on the irregular beat of the poets lot. Distant sounds too are heard from captivity in a sequence of poems about the last princess of