Selected Prose of R.S. Thomas

R.S. Thomas

R.S. Thomas is Wales’s most eminent poet in the English language, and one of the most acclaimed poets writing in Britain today. Since 1946 he has published twenty-six collections of poetry including his massive Collected Poems in 1993 …

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Swansea Girl

Barbara Hardy

Swansea Girl is a recollection of childhood and adolescence in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, told with an attractive candour and made vivid by the author’s remarkable eye for detail …

Up the Lamb

John Ackerman

’Up The Lamb’ is the story of young John Ackerman’s growing up in the mining town of Maesteg during the Depression and the war years. The son of a butcher - and therefore the family were ’trade’ - John escaped the worst of the poverty while being acutely aware of it in the lives of his schoolmates ...

W.H. Davies

Lawrence Normand


The story of W.H. Davies is one of the most remarkable in twentieth century letters. Born in lowly circumstances in Newport, he moved to America where he lived as a hobo – a life he recorded in Autobiography of a Super-Tramp ...

Welsh Journal

Jeremy Hooker

In ’Welsh Journal’ Jeremy Hooker recalls his life in the seventies when he was an English lecturer (in both senses) at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Delighting in his closeness to nature, life in a cottage in rural Llangwyryfon is delineated in delicate, poetic prose ...