Poetry. "The power of Arthurian legend, and of the hold romantic love has over human beings, is shown again here in this moving sequence which speaks almost entirely in the voices of the women in the stories. The harshness of landscape and the culture these people were subject to—the women, the men, and the children—seems only framed differently, but very close to our own. Margaret Lloyd has gathered all this to her with haunting empathy for human life and the life of the natural world"—Jean Valentine.

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Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England, of Welsh parents and grew up in a Welsh community in central New York State. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England, and has published a book on William Carlos Williams's poem Paterson (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). Her first poetry book, THIS PARTICULAR EARTHLY SCENE, was published by Alice James Books in 1993. Lloyd completed A MOMENT IN THE FIELD: VOICES FROM ARTHURIAN LEGEND (Plinth Books, 2006) while on a fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, an International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. Presently, she chairs the Humanities Department at Springfield College, Massachusetts.

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