Twentieth Century Anglo-welsh Poetry

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This definitive collection displays the beauty and elegance of the best in Welsh poetry from the 20th century. Chosen by one of Wales's most celebrated contemporary poets, this compilation spans the breadth of Welsh life, including the poetry of Georgian influenced W. H. Davies and Edward Thomas, Welsh-language enthusiasts Tony Conran and Nigel Jenkins, and politically inspired Tony Curtis and Duncan Bush. Hundreds of other important Welsh poets are also represented, including John Ormond, Leslie Norris, Harry Webb, Jean Earle, and Gwyneth Lewis. This new edition brings the century completely up to date with the inclusion of work by outstanding new poets Owen Sheers, Sarah Corbett, Kate Bingham and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch.

Introduction

(3)

Prologue

(7)

W.H. Davies (1871-1940)

The Bed-sitting Room

(1)

J is for Jealousy

(1)

The Tugged Hand

(1)

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

Women He Liked

(1)

Celandine

(1)

Swedes

(1)

Old Man

(1)

And You, Helen

(1)

No One So Much As You

(1)

A Private

(1)

The Owl

(1)

A.G. Prys-Jones (1888-1987)

The Wife of Carcassone

(1)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young

(1)

The Send-off

(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est

(1)

Hospital Barge at Cérisy

(1)

Exposure

(1)

Futility

(1)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

(1)

Strange Meeting

(1)

David Jones (1895-1974)

from In Parenthesis

(2)

from The Tribune's Visitation

(2)

from The Tutelar of the Place

(1)

conclusion of The Sleeping Lord

(2)

Gwyn Williams (1904-1990)

Wild Night at Treweithan

(1)

Jet Planes

(1)

After Reading Poems to Einhir

(1)

Idris Davies (1905-1953)

The Angry Summer 20

(1)

The Angry Summer 28

(1)

Gwalia Deserta VII

(1)

Gwalia Deserta XI

(1)

Glyn Jones (1905-1995)

Again

(1)

Where All Were Good to Me, God Knows

(1)

The Seagull

(1)

Dafydd's Seagull and the West Wind

(2)

Fragment: Where is Tangwen Now?

(1)

Vernon Watkins (1906-1967)

The Collier

(2)

The Heron

(1)

Music of Colours -White Blossom

(1)

Ophelia

(1)

Lynette Roberts (1909-1995)

Poem from Llanybri

(1)

Jean Earle (1909-2002)

Visiting Light

(2)

Jugged Hare

(1)

Old Tips

(1)

Blondie

(1)

Backgrounds Observed

(1)

The Tea Party

(1)

Exits

(1)

The May Tree

(1)

Brenda Chamberlain (1912-1971)

Seal Cave

(1)

Henry Treece (1912-1966)

Conquerors

(1)

Y Ddraig Goch

(1)

Michael Burn (1912-)

Welsh Love Letter

(1)

In Japan

(1)

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)

Welsh Landscape

(1)

Cynddylan on a Tractor

(1)

A Welsh Testament

(1)

On The Farm

(1)

The Bright Field

(1)

Geriatric

(1)

A Marriage

(1)

Still

(1)

Clifford Dyment (1914-1970)

'As a Boy with a Richness of Needs I Wandered'

(1)

The Swans

(1)

Dylan Thomas (1914 -1953)

'The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City'

(1)

After the Funeral

(1)

Poem in October

(2)

The Hunchback in the Park

(1)

In My Craft or Sullen Art

(1)

Fern Hill

(2)

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

(1)

Over Sir John's Hill

(2)

Alun Lewis (1915-1944)

All Day It Has Rained...

(1)

The Mountain over Aberdare

(1)

Goodbye

(1)

The Mahratta Ghats

(1)

Karanje Village

(1)

The Peasants

(1)

In Hospital: Poona (I)

(1)

The Sentry

(1)

Roland Mathias (1915-)

Porth Cwyfan

(2)

Sanderlings

(1)

Cae Iago: May Day

(1)

Grasshoppers

(1)

Emyr Humphreys (1919-)

From Father to Son

(1)

John Stuart Williams (1920-2002)

Early Days

(1)

Rhyfel y Sais Bach (The Complaint of Augustus Brackenbury)

100

(2)

Harri Webb (1920-1995)

Pastoral

102

(1)

Epil y Filiast

102

(1)

The Nightingales

103

(1)

Synopsis of the Great Welsh Novel

104

(1)

Ode to the Severn Bridge

105

(1)

Vive Le Sport

105

(1)

Cywydd o Fawl

105

(1)

Robert Morgan (1921-1994)

Blood Donor

106

(1)

T.H. Jones (1921-1965)

My Grandmother Died in the Early Hours of the Morning

107

(1)

A Storm in Childhood

107

(1)

Back?

108

(1)

Mr Jones as the Transported Poet

109

(1)

Bird on a Jaunt

110

(1)

Leslie Norris (1921-)

Elegy for Lyn James

110

(1)

Hyperion

111

(2)

His Father, Singing

113

(1)

A Glass Window

114

(1)

Bridges

115

(1)

Belonging

116

(1)

Hudson's Geese

117

(1)

Elegy for David Beynon

117

(2)

Ruth Bidgood (1922-)

Little of Distinction

119

(1)

Old Pump-house, Llanwrtyd Wells

119

(1)

Safaddan

120

(1)

Hawthorn at Digiff

121

(2)

Banquet

123

(1)

John Ormond (1923-1990)

My Dusty Kinsfolk

124

(1)

My Grandfather and His Apple-Tree

125

(1)

Cathedral Builders

126

(1)

The Key

127

(1)

In September

128

(1)

Design for a Quilt

129

(1)

Design for a Tomb

130

(1)

The Gift

131

(1)

Joyce Herbert (1923-)

Dossers at the Imperial War Museum

131

(1)

The Irish Scullery Maid

132

(2)

Dannie Abse (1923-)

Return to Cardiff

134

(1)

Hunt the Thimble

135

(1)

Photograph and White Tulips

136

(1)

Pathology of Colours

137

(1)

In the theatre

138

(1)

Case History

139

(1)

Welsh Valley Cinema, 1930's

139

(1)

Thankyou Note

140

(1)

Raymond Garlick (1926-)

Dylan Thomas at Tenby

141

(1)

Consider Kyffin

141

(1)

Note on the Iliad

142

(2)

Behind the Headlines

144

(1)

The Heiress

144

(1)

Mercer Simpson (1926-)

Homo Erectus, Cerne Abbas

145

(1)

John Tripp (1927-1986)

The Last at Lucy's

146

(1)

Caroline Street, Cardiff

147

(1)

Armistice Day '77, Honiton

148

(1)

Ploughman

149

(1)

Twilight in the Library

149

(1)

Connection in Bridgend

150

(1)

Father

151

(1)

Christine Furnival (1931-)

Rhiannon

152

(1)

Tony Conran (1931-)

Elegy for the Welsh Dead, in the Falkland Islands, 1982

153

(2)

Spirit Level

155

(1)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Hoover

156

(3)

Harry Guest (1932-)

Wales Re-visited

159

(1)

Herbert Williams (1932-)

The Old Tongue

160

(1)

Sam Adams (1934-)

Rough Boys

161

(1)

Gwbert: mackerel fishing

162

(1)

Jon Dressel (1934-)

Intercity, Swansea-London

163

(1)

Let's Hear It For Goliath

164

(1)

Bryn Griffiths (1935-)

The Master

165

(1)

Dolphins

166

(2)

Sally Roberts Jones (1935-)

Household Cavalry, Llanstephan

168

(1)

Another Lazarus

168

(1)

Gillian Clarke (1937-)

Baby-Sitting

169

(1)

Foghorns

169

(1)

The Hare

170

(2)

Overheard in County Sligo

172

(1)

Windmill

172

(1)

Neighbours

173

(1)

Lament

174

(1)

No Hands

174

(1)

John Powell Ward (1937-)

London Welsh v. Bridgend

175

(1)

Here, Home

176

(1)

Marathon

177

(1)

The Wye Below Bredwardine

178

(1)

Meic Stephens (1938-)

Hooters

179

(1)

Elegy for Llywelyn Humphries

180

(1)

John Barnie (1941-)

I Had Climbed the Long Slope

181

(1)

The Town Where I Was Born

182

(2)

Gladys Mary Coles (1942-)

The Dornier

184

(1)

Heron in the Alyn

185

(1)

Ann Drysdale (1942-)

Language Difficulty

186

(1)

Lament of the White Queen

186

(1)

Christine Evans (1943-)

Callers

187

(1)

Lucy's Bones

188

(1)

Enlli

189

(1)

John Davies (1944-)

How To Write Anglo-Welsh Poetry

190

(1)

Sunny Prestatyn

191

(1)

In Port Talbot

192

(1)

The Visitor's Book, 8

193

(1)

The Visitor's Book, 9

194

(1)

Duncan Bush (1946-)

The Hook

194

(2)

Pneumoconiosis

196

(1)

Summer 1984

197

(1)

Aquarium du Trocadéro

198

(2)

The Sunday The Power Went Off

200

(1)

Living In Real Times

201

(2)

Brigitte Bardot In Grangetown

203

(1)

Tony Curtis (1946-)

Preparations

204

(1)

To My Father

205

(1)

Games With My Daughter

206

(1)

Pembrokeshire Buzzards

206

(1)

Queen's Tears

207

(1)

Portrait of the Painter Hans Theo Richter and His Wife Gisela in Dresden, 1933

208

(1)

Soup

209

(1)

Land Army Photographs

210

(1)

Peter Finch (1947-)

We Can Say That

211

(1)

The Tattoo

211

(1)

Fists

212

(1)

Douglas Houston (1947-)

Lines on a Van's Dereliction

213

(1)

A Night Out

214

(1)

Paul Groves (1947-)

Anniversary Soak

215

(1)

The Back End of the Horse

215

(1)

Turvy-Topsy

216

(1)

Nigel Jenkins (1949-)

Castration

217

(1)

Wild Cherry

218

(1)

Shirts

219

(1)

Ainadamar

220

(1)

Steve Griffiths (1949-)

The mines in sepia tint

221

(1)

Sheenagh Pugh (1950-)

The Guest

222

(1)

Guys

223

(1)

Railway Signals

223

(1)

'Do you think we'll ever get to see Earth, sir?'

224

(1)

Sometimes

225

(1)

The Woodcarver of Stendal

226

(1)

The Frozen Field

226

(3)

Allegiance

229

(1)

Hilary Llewellyn-Williams (1951-)

Feeding the Bat

230

(1)

The Little Cloth

231

(1)

Two Rivers

232

(2)

Making Babies

234

(1)

Robert Minhinnick (1952-)

Short Wave

235

(1)

Surfers

236

(1)

Sunday Morning

236

(1)

Catching My Breath

237

(1)

The Aerial

238

(1)

The Drinking Art

239

(1)

The Looters

240

(1)

She Drove a 'Seventies Plymouth

241

(1)

Mike Jenkins (1953-)

Survivor

242

(1)

A Truant

243

(1)

Diver-Bird

244

(1)

Christopher Meredith (1954-)

Christening Pot Boiler

245

(1)

Plasnewydd Square

246

(1)

Huw Jones (1955-)

Man Lying in a Hallway

247

(1)

Catherine Fisher (1956-)

Severn Bore

247

(1)

Those Who Make Paths

248

(1)

Frozen Tarn

249

(1)

Words

249

(1)

Oliver Reynolds (1957-)

from Tone Poem

250

(1)

Spanish Dancer

251

(1)

Paul Henry (1959-)

The Winter Wedding

252

(1)

Love Birds

252

(1)

Gwyneth Lewis (1959-)

from Six Poems on Nothing: III

253

(1)

from Welsh Espionage: XI

254

(1)

The 'No' Madonnas

254

(1)

Sunday Park

255

(1)

Stephen Knight (1960-)

The Big Parade

256

(1)

Daedalus

257

(2)

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch (1966-)

Lighting the Fire

259

(1)

Deryn Rees-Jones (1968-)

Largo

259

(1)

The Great Mutando

260

(1)

Frances Williams (1968-)

Blind

261

(1)

Champ Practising

262

(1)

Sarah Corbett (1970-)

Green Rose

263

(1)

Kate Bingham (1971-)

Things I Learned at University

264

(1)

In Passing

265

(1)

Owen Sheers (1974-)

Antonia's Story

265

(1)

Flag

266

(2)

Biographical Notes

268

(9)

Acknowledgements

277

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