Tag: Ruth Bidgood

Some books I read in 2022

December 30, 2022 3 Comments
Some books I read in 2022

Covid may have loosened its grip, but its ‘stay home’ message has lingered, so just as many books got read in 2022 as in the previous year.  I’ve been steered to some of them by research needs, but that hasn’t reduced the enjoyment.  Here are some of my favourites.  The list doesn’t include any charity […]

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Ruth Bidgood at Ystrad Fflur

March 12, 2022 3 Comments
Ruth Bidgood at Ystrad Fflur

The poet and writer Ruth Bidgood died in Rhayader last week, six months short of her hundredth birthday.  She never raised her voice loudly in print, and few people, asked to name five contemporary Welsh poets writing in English, would probably have chosen her.  But the poems she wrote, in a steady stream over forty […]

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