The Green Month by Matthew Francis Kate Noakes there are ghosts

there are ghosts

we understand that within their ‘bones Holodomor / lives on’

In a new essay on these additions she discusses the issues raised in the translating – and in some cases retranslating – of these fragmentary and ever-shifting texts

Irish activist Roger Casement

The Green Month by Matthew Francis Kate Noakes there are ghostsPublished 23rd October 2025. Delightful new versions of the great Welsh medieval poet's lyrics intimate, urgent and timeless Dafydd ap Gwilym, the pre eminent poet of Wales, explored love, desire and the natural world with startling frankness and virtuoso wit. In a sequence freely adapted from Dafydd's work, Matthew Francis brings him to life for the modern English speaking reader: as he waits in the woods for his lover, ogles the girls in church or