Still Here by Elin ap Hywel, trans. Laura Fisk illness dodging and playing with logic

dodging and playing with logic to create a brand new poetics

Ranging from New York to small-town Aberdeenshire

Ann Westgarth

so much so that one might say that Maps of Desire represents the perfect union of poet and translator

Still Here by Elin ap Hywel, trans. Laura Fisk illness dodging and playing with logicPublished 31st October 2025. Elin ap Hywels Still Here, translated by Laura Fisk, is a resonant and formally diverse collection that weaves together myth, memory, politics, and personal reflection across shifting poetic registers. Drawing from Welsh history and folklore, ap Hywels writing moves from lyrical meditations on landscape and loss to sharply observed, quietly subversive commentaries on gender, identity, and domestic ritual. The poems often