Ruth Bidgood published her first book of poetry in 1972, the year she turned fifty, and she has been writing about the landscape and communities of her mid-Wales homeland ever since. This book is the first full-length study of Bidgood's life and work, considering her career to date and providing detailed scrutiny of her poetry from its genesis in the 1960s to her prizewinning 2009 volume Time Being. While acknowledging the breadth of Bidgood's...