The first Welsh poets included Aneirin and Taliesin, whose work descended from the tradition of the druids. Sometime between 400 and 700 AD, Brittonic developed into four different languages: Early ...
A new bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English "equal weight" to encourage poets to write in their first language. Fifty poets from Wales each write about ...
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 ...
Re-examination of Welsh poems dating back to 10th century show Myrddin as prophet concerned by human interactions with nature He is probably most often thought of today as a wizard, a shape-shifter or ...
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 of ...
Welsh-English anthology about Welsh equivalent of Route 66 republished twice since release on St David’s Day It is variously described as a snake, a zip, a ribbon, a scar, a Welsh version of Route 66.
What does it mean to be Welsh today? Is it being born in Wales, having Welsh family, or simply a matter of living there? It can be hard for a person of any culture to specifically define what makes up ...
"Boring" poems and books used for GCSE Welsh are putting students off studying the subject at A-level and university, it has been claimed. Students want to see a more modern take being used as ...