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A poet says it is a dream come true to combine her "great passions" of football and poetry by joining the Wales women squad on their Euro 2025 journey. Literature Wales commissioned poet Sarah ...
R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest whose poems celebrated Welsh nationalism, decried modern technology as a temptation for man to reject his spiritual nature, ...
Serving as the Welsh National Poet until 2025, she intends to emphasise the potential that poetry has in helping people make sense of who they are and understand the world around them.
Each poem is published side by side with its translation either from, or into, Welsh, and the language the poem arrived in dictates which goes on the left page. "We wanted to give Welsh equal weight.
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for Wales", an author has said. Jeff Towns, who wrote Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas ...
This second bilingual Welsh-English poetry anthology from Arachne Press collects 50 original poems by Welsh poets, all written in response to Wales’ rivers. With wide geographical reach, they ...
English remained the language of his poetry, although he did produce several prose works in Welsh, including his enigmatic 1985 autobiography which was written in the third person. It was entitled ...
“Look upon the fury of the sea; it has covered Maes Gwyddneu,” a 13th century Welsh poem reads. Local legend says the islands of Maes Gwyddneu were once ruled by a king, according to Simon ...