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.

A world without poetry would be a dire thing indeed. From Dylan Thomas’s famous villanelle Do not go gentle into that good night to Shakespeare’s famous love sonnet parody, Sonnet 130, the forms of ...

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, ...

The first Welsh poets included Aneirin and Taliesin, whose work descended from the tradition of the druids. Sometime between 400 and 700 AD, Brittonic developed into four different languages ...

The modern expectations of English poetry have changed, but the centuries-old Welsh poems emphasise that their writing is an ancient craft, and can bring life to the tales of times long ago in a ...

Welsh poet and Anglican priest R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) has been described as "a poet of the cross, the unanswered prayer, the bleak trek through darkness.” Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Home ...

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 ...

He was a native English speaker but learnt Welsh in his 30s – which he claimed was too late in life to be able to write poetry in the language. For more stories from where you live visit InYourArea.

Few of those who have translated Welsh poetry into English have succeeded as well as Anthony Conran, whose Penguin Book of Welsh Verse, published in 1967, revealed to a wider readership not only ...

Sarah McCreadie's delighted to be combining her football and writing passions to produce 15 poems.

Plans for more Welsh spoken in schools are part of the push for one million Welsh speakers by 2050 "Boring" poems and books used for GCSE Welsh are putting students off studying the subject at A ...