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  • Peter Finch: Wales’s Mr Poetry

    Peter Finch: Wales’s Mr Poetry

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    Andrew Green
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    In front of me is a 24-page pamphlet published by ‘second aeon publications’ in 1971.  It’s held together with a couple of rusting staples and contains seventeen short poems, typewritten and photocopied.  Back then, that’s how you produced a skinny book of poems: gritty, home-made, no upper-case.  But this one, John Tripp’s bute park and…

  • The portraits of Kyffin Williams

    The portraits of Kyffin Williams

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    Andrew Green
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    This article is based on a talk given to The Arts Society: Brecknock in Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon on 11 September 2018 to mark the centenary of Kyffin Williams’s birth. Introduction My starting point is a talk given by Peter Lord as the Kyffin Williams lecture for 2018 at Oriel Môn, entitled ‘The portraits of Kyffin…

  • Wales Coast Path, day 65: Llanengan to Aberdaron

    Wales Coast Path, day 65: Llanengan to Aberdaron

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    Andrew Green
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    Same journey, same start point, but we’re now down to three, C, H and me, for our last day in southern Llŷn.  Llanengan seems a bit busier than yesterday, though it’s a quieter place than it was when lead was mined here (a chimney still stands above the village).  We walk down to Porth Neigwl,…