Editor’s preface: Rum Dark Nights
Melanie Perry’s poetry is rooted in the land and uses language in
a way that enables her to investigate the complexity of nature and
the people who inhabit it. Her language is both pleasing to the
ear and inviting to the mind. The invitations to explore the world
offered by the estuary upon which she lives she has accepted
creatively, metaphorically and physically. Mel has become a poet
and performer with a pan-European reputation to the East and
West of Wales and she will shortly have a bilingual collection
published by the Swedish publisher Magnus Grehn Förlag. This
pamphlet is a handful of touchstones from a variety of times and
contexts in Ireland, Wales and Sweden.