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Prophecies from the Book of Taliesin, ed. and trans. Marged Haycock (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2013). viii + 199 pp. ISBN 978-0-9557182-7-4. £25.00. Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin, ed. and trans. Marged Haycock, 2nd, revised edition (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2015). viii + 559 pp. ISBN 978-0-9557182-8-1. £35.00. The Book of Taliesin (MS Peniarth 2 in the National Library of Wales), copied in the first half of the fourteenth century, contains sixty-one poems in Middle Welsh, many of them no doubt of much earlier origin. Quite a number of the poems, including a block of twelve claimed by their editor to be the work of a historical sixth-century poet 'Taliesin', were published, with translations, from the late 1950s onwards by Sir Ifor Williams, and the religious and scriptural poems were edited...