A fully illustrated volume revealing an intimate cultural collaboration between poet and illustrator.

At the heart of this book is an image from Homer: the great shield which Hephaestus forged for the warrior, Achilles. In his second collection, Lyndon Davies attempts to imagine a shield for the complexities of the current era.

Lyndon Davies was born and brought up in Cardiff and has lived in various parts of Britain and France. He studied English at Aberystwyth University. Lyndon now lives in Llangattock, Powys with his wife, a painter, and combines freelance writing with renovating an old house. His poems have appeared in Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review and Fire, and also in the anthology The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian, 2003). His first major collection of poems, Hyphasis, was published by Parthian in 2007.

Penny Hallas is both an artist and an art therapist, two activities which inform and nourish one another. Over the last couple of years she has been collaborating with poets Lyndon Davies and Graham Hartill on a series of cultural discussion groups, known as the Glasfryn Seminars.