Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman recognising a right – a

recognising a right – a responsibility – to risk the necessary word

For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth

These poems course through sonnets and ghazals

His celebrated memoir An Aran Keening (2001) is about a year’s stay on one of the islands of that Archipelago

Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman recognising a right – aIn McCraes hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through Kate Kellaway, GuardianConfirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time Kit Fan, GuardianWriting you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and