'Wild Cherry: Selected Poems [reveals] a writer of massive scope – a poet equally adept at lyric poems, poems of love and desire, poems for public spaces and occasions – and, crucially, a powerful wielder of words against some of the most pressing issues affecting Wales and the wider world in Jenkins' lifetime (and now), such as environmental damage, militarism, capitalism, imperialism – Jenkins took it all on with rage and humour ... [The book] is richly nourishing, entertaining, lyrical and wise – doing merit to a multifaceted talent whose influence already reaches far and who will continue, posthumously, to be an ambassador for Wales.'
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