« Lines on the Breton Edge »
«Linennoł war ribloł lemm Breizh»
«Lignes sur le Fil Breton»
«Linien am Rande der Bretagne»
(poetry in English, Breton, French and German).
by Roy Eales,
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Roy Eales, a British journalist and writer, was born in London and now lives in Brittany.
He began writing poetry at the university where he studied literature and journalism.
Since 1966, he has worked as a journalist, including almost ten years writing on the staff of the Economist of London. He became an independent journalist in 1991 after leaving London to live in Pluned, western Brittany.
"Brittany is chaos in the air, wild fertility in the soil, a clasp of people, land and sea. All this seems to go straight to my roots. Here, the worst takes longer to arrive. Its a privilege to live amidst the wild Atlantic, far outside the urban cage in which noise is culture and what counts most is a personal place. Here good nature comes first. There is something admirable, and perhaps, prophetic for Europe, about the unaffected behaviour of the Bretons whose natural instinct is to be kind, tough, wily, resistant to global noise and, above all, to preserve their culture-language, stories, art, music, singing, dancing, joking, eating, drinking. I love them and their breton space.
Much of this poetry is about the strained embrace in Brittany or elsewhere of the nervous present with the continuous past. The poems speak for themselves even though readers always hear what they think they hear."
Roy Eales, Pluned, 1997.
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