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My Family and Other Superheroes
My Family and Other Superheroes

My Family and Other Superheroes

POETRY

64 Pages, 5 x 7.75

Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket, EPUB

Trade Paper, $17.99 (US $17.99) (CA $21.99)

Publication Date: April 2014

ISBN 9781781721629

Rights: US, CA, LAM, SAM & CAR

Seren (Apr 2014)

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Overview

Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo. Other poems focus on the crammed terraces and abandoned high streets where a working-class and Welsh nationalist politics is hammered out. This is a postindustrial valleys upbringing re-imagined through the prism of pop culture and surrealism.

Author Biography

Jonathan Edwards has written for Big Issue Cymru magazine, written speeches for the Welsh Assembly Government, and currently works as an English teacher. He won the Terry Hetherington Award in 2010, was awarded a Literature Wales new writer’s bursary in 2011, and in 2012 won prizes in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition and the Basil Bunting Award. His work has appeared in a wide range of magazines, including Poetry Review, the North, Poetry Wales, and New Welsh Review.