Air Histories

Christopher Meredith’s Air Histories starts in the Stone Age and ends in the future. It’s marked by formal diversity and a wide range of subjects, with the personal alongside the impersonal and the experimental alongside well-known forms, including some translations from the Welsh. Throughout, it engages the rich meanings of its title, touching on the elemental and on historical time, as well as music and story, meditating on human creativity and its fallibilities. Gorgeous and original descriptions of nature in Wales are also prominently featured, particularly the Black Mountains, near the author’s home.

Christopher Meredith is a professor of creative writing at the University of Glamorgan and the author of the novels The Book of Idiots, Griffri, Shifts, and Sidereal Time. He is also the author of three poetry collections and the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, the Arts Council of Wales Young Writer Prize, and the Fiction Prize for his first novel, Shifts.