The Little Hours

"The voice has poetic authority: a technique capable of thinking and feeling through the poem, which compels attention." – Jeremy Hooker

The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems is a landmark volume which collects key poems from the career of Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, one of the outstanding poets of her generation in Wales. In addition to the classic sequences 'The Tree Calendar' and 'Book of Shadows', the book also includes new work, such as a cycle of poems devoted to the Benedictine hours.



Hilary Llewellyn-Williams has written poetry most of her life; her first collection, The Tree Calendar (1987), won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writer Prize. She subsequently published five collections, the most recent being Greenland (2003). After an interval of several years she returned to writing poetry. Her poems have been described as "rich, intricate, intense and full of dazzling imagery", and as having "a remarkably sensuous intelligence". Her themes range from our relationship with the natural world, myth and folklore, human drama, domestic life, spirituality and the primacy of physical place. She lives in Abergavenny.