‘We’re just like Little Gods, aren’t we Dad?’
This question, posed to the narrator by his son in the poem ‘Little Gods,’ offers up Glyn Edwards’ primary theme in this collection: relativity. In ‘Little Gods,’ where a father and son collect frogspawn and later observe the dead frogs left over from the hatchings, human becomes creator and mediator, watching over its own small domain, holding the balance between life and death in its palms.
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Alex Hubbard is a writer from London and a PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University. He is currently working on a novel and a set of short stories.
Alex Hubbard is a writer from London and a PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University. He is currently working on a novel and a set of short stories.