Jan Morris called Real Cardiff “one of the very best books about a city I have ever read”
and a number of poems celebrating them by Robert Southey
in Altar em Chamas (1982)
Mohamed Berrada
He went on staring at the emptiness
What Vanishes Evangeline Patterson Jan Morris called Real CardiffWhat Vanishes contains four sections: poems of place and displacement set in such far flung locales as Budapest, Berkeley, Vancouver, Point Pleasant, and the skies above Australia along with Dublin, Ballybunion, Dingle, and Drumcliffe. Poems of love and loss, engagement, alienation, and endurance; poems focused on music and musicians, from blues to bluegrass to punk to jazz; and "found" poems from sources as varied as Diane Arbus, Teilhard de Chardin,