WELSH poetry, written in the Welsh language, few of us can understand. The position — if poets must have positions other than upright — of the poet born in Wales or of Welsh parentage and writing his ...

Are stale with tears trodden underfoot. The heart’s flower withers at the root. Bury it then, in history’s sterile dust. The slow years shall tame your tawny lust. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh ...

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There’s a tradition in Wales of the bardd gwlad—loosely translated as the country poet who serves the community by composing a poem on occasions such as weddings, funerals and birthdays. “It’s an ...

Rhea Seren Phillips is affiliated with Parallel.Cymru on a short-term development project looking into the history of Welsh poets, available to read at https ...