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This book is a timely Welsh antidote to Brexit. It is packed with original materials but is written in a highly accessible style by an author who recently won a Welsh Book of the Year award. It throws a wholly new light on Wales, revealing a country that has long been internationalist in cultural outlook, well prepared to look in directions other than that of England.
This study places the internationally renowned poetry of two major figures, R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams, in a new and illuminating context. It demonstrates how theological convictions are embodied in the very form and texture of poems. The book draws attention to a cultural phenomenon of European resonance, because it runs counter to established secular practice in the UK, in Western Europe and in the US.
Mae'r llyfr yn adrodd hanes Kate Bosse-Griffiths a'i theulu cyn ac yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd, ac yn disgrifio effeithiau polisi hil-laddiad y Natsiaid arni hi a'r teulu. Mae'n hanes ysgytwol a dirdynnol sy'n cynnwys llofruddiaeth ei mam, hunanladdiad ei modryb, diswyddiad ei thad oedd yn llawfeddyg llwyddiannus, ac erlid aelodau'r teulu i wledydd fel China a Sweden.
A translation of the Welsh-language classic Cudd fy Meiau by Pennar Davies. The original was published as a weekly column in the Congregational newspaper Y Tyst in 1955. The volume has been long regarded as a classic by many Welsh people and the book records the honest confessions of a deeply spiritual man. Foreword by Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Biography of the academic, poet, novelist, critic, historian and theologian who played a major role in the literary and religious life of Wales in the second half of the twentieth century.
Wales, though a small country, has a literature amongst the oldest in Europe. With nearly 3,300 entries, this volume provides a reference to Anglo-Welsh and Welsh literature.
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