Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin

Edited and translated by

Marged Haycock

559 Pages, ISBN 978 0 9557182 8 1     
Published by CMCS 2007, second, revised edition 2015     


The Book of Taliesin is the most enigmatic and mysterious of the 'Four Ancient Books of Wales'. This fully revised edition offers an authoritative introduction to the early Welsh poems associated with Taliesin, the legendary shape-changing bard.

Professor Haycock has als edited and translated Prophecies from the Book of Taliesin (CMCS 2013)

The cover illustration from the fourteenth-century Book of Taliesin is reproduced by permission of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.


(The text above comes from the back of the book)     



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