Tag: Welsh poetry in English
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Peter Finch: Wales’s Mr Poetry
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…
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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…