To begin at the beginning. Or perhaps the end. It was in this Welsh village overlooking the estuary of the River Taff that the poet Dylan Thomas crafted and drafted many of his works before his ...

A world without poetry would be a dire thing indeed. From Dylan Thomas’s famous villanelle Do not go gentle into that good night to Shakespeare’s famous love sonnet parody, Sonnet 130, the ...

Serving as the Welsh National Poet until 2025, she intends to emphasise the potential that poetry has in helping people make sense of who they are and understand the world around them.

A world without poetry would be a dire thing indeed. From Dylan Thomas’s famous villanelle Do not go gentle into that good night to Shakespeare’s famous love sonnet parody, Sonnet 130, the forms of ...

WELSH poetry, written in the Welsh language, few of us can understand. The position — if poets must have positions other than upright — of the poet born in Wales or of Welsh parentage and ...

It takes an imaginative mind to combine nonfigurative forms made with fused glass and Welsh poetry, but Sian Poeschl does it. Exhibiting at Studio Arts Gallery in Laguna Beach, Poeschl melds two ...

"It's almost impossible to get English language poetry onto the television in Wales but S4C lap up Welsh poetry." Seren publishes about six poetry books a year, and sales average 500-600 copies.

Early Welsh poetry Last updated: 11 August 2008. The first Welsh poets included Aneirin and . Taliesin, whose work descended from the tradition of the druids. ...

"We wanted to give Welsh equal weight. There is an ingrained assumption that to reach a big audience, poetry from Welsh poets must be in English," Ms Potts said.

Few of those who have translated Welsh poetry into English have succeeded as well as Anthony Conran, whose Penguin Book of Welsh Verse, published in 1967, revealed to a wider readership not only ...