Welsh Journals

Our Contributors GLYN JONES: Born Merthyr Tydfil 1905. Contributed to first numbers of Wales in 1937. Also to Best Short Stories, 1938, 1940 English Swry, Nos. 2 and 4, New Verse, Twentieth Century Verse, Life and Letters, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry (London), etc. Now teaches at Caerphilly. Author of The Blue Bed (Cape), Poems (Fortune Press), The Water Music (Routledge, 1944). VERNON WATKINS: is 39, recently demobbed from the R.A.F. (Sergeant) married, one daughter. Before the war lived at Pennard, Gower; now has a house (temporarily) at Sketty, Swansea. Works in a bank in St. Helen's Road. Has been regularly associated with Wales since Autumn, 1936, and contributed several poems to our first issue. Author of The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd and The Lamp and the Veil (Faber). Calls himself a Welsh poet. But hates criticism and categories. DYLAN Thomas Born Swansea, 1914, son of English master at Grammar School. Author of 18 Poems (Parton Press), 25 Poems, The Map of Love, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Deaths and Entrances (Dent). During the war wrote film scripts and commentaries for M.O.I. documentaries. Is now employed as a non-staff reader by the British Broadcasting Corporation at London. NIGEL HESELTINE: Son of Peter Warlock, the composer; his home was at Cefn- Bryntalch, Abermule, Montgomery. He has already published a book of travel in Albania, Scarred Background a set of translations from Dafydd ap Gwilym (Cuala Press); two books of poems, Violent Rain, The Four-Walled Dream, two plays, and Tales of the Squirearchy (Druid Press), which has been well- received by the critics. He has also made a reputation as a producer on the Dublin stage. GWYN WILLIAMS: colleague of H. L. R. Edwards in Alexandria. Author of an anthology of Welsh poems, with translations, from Taliesin to the present day to be published shortly, entitled The Rent that's Due to Love. J. M. EDWARDS: of Barry. Thrice-crowned Bard of Wales and Adjudicator at this year's National Eisteddfod at Mountain Ash. Llyfrau'r Castell, Cardiff, will shortly publish his Peiriannau a Cherddi Eraill. Has done sterling work as adjudicator at local and country eisteddfodau. A. G. Prys-Jones Georgian. One of H.M. Staff Inspectors of Schools in Wales. Born in Denbigh, North Wales but now considers himself a naturalised Glamorganshire man, and is an ardent lover of the Vale." Educated at various Public Elementary Schools, Pontypridd County School, Llandovery College, and Jesus College, Oxford (where he was a contemporary and friend of Lawrence of Arabia). Collected, in 1917, the first anthology of the poems of Welsh men and women writing in English, published under the title Welsh Poets." A volume of his own early poems appeared in 1927, Poems of Wales." Has contributed poems to the Welsh Outlook," Welsh Review," Everyman," Observer," New Statesman," Y Llenor," and the Western Mail," for which he now reviews poetry. Has frequently broadcast talks, short stories and readings from the Welsh B.B.C. Station, Cardiff, and a number of his historical sketches, short plays and poems have been broadcast from the same station. It is rumoured that his real metier is humorous verse, but apparently his output in this direction has been reserved, so far, for the more informal gatherings of the Welsh Inspectorate. ALUN Llewllyn Author of The Deacon and other novels. Member of the P.E.N. Club (London Centre). J. WILLIAMS Hughes Native of Marian Glas, Anglesey; lectured in America; author of Troi'n Alltud (Llyfrau Pawb): liberal candidate for Flintshire; now serving in Army in India.