Welsh Journals

Our Contributors JOHN ACKERMAN: native of Maesteg, Glam. Poet, story-writer and critic. Educated at King's College, London, where his thesis on Welsh writers aroused the interest of Professor Isaacs and the late LAG Strong. Did further post-graduate research at Swansea, lectured to w E A classes in Glamorgan, and is now English Master at one of the best grammar schools in the country. Now working on a book (fiction) and enjoying the responsibility of his first teaching post. ALUN RICHARDS: Aged 29. Educated Pontypridd, Caerleon and Swansea. Lieutenant in Royal Navy, 1949-52, and Panamanian Flag supernumerary. Happily domiciled in Cardiff: married, one son. Story-writer, playwright and critic: has just sold three plays to B B C T v network. DAVID REES: Born 1928. Contributes to The Spectator, The Guardian and Wales regularly. His Private View in our last issue is one of a series of imaginative pieces he is writing with strong Welsh backgrounds. Has worked as copywriter and as p r o in various advertising agencies. JACK RAYMOND JONES: 'Most of my stuff has been dramatic stuff for broad- casting-my play The Last Day was produced on the B B C, and I have just finished some more plays for television. I want to write one that's got some guts'. I have written stories and poems and slighter things for The Guardian, Tribune, World Digest, and of course Wales. CLIVE GAMMON: Aged 30. Author of Hook, Line and Spinner (a fisherman's autobiography). Lives near Pembroke. glyn jones: Distinguished story-writer whose pre-war book The Blue Bed (Cape) is still remembered by literary critics. A further collection The Water Music consolidated his reputation. Is having a novel published by Dents next year. Signatory of the Cardiff Nuclear Disarmament Campaign. TED THOMAS: Aged 23. Speaks Welsh. Educated Switzerland, Machynlleth, and New College, Oxford (where he took literature under Lord David Cecil). Sings Welsh and Russian folksongs to the guitar, having been a Russian interpreter in the I. Corps. Poems in Isis, Oxford Opinion. Recently married to a girl who knows only Old Welsh, a Celtic philologist and former pupil of Profldris LI. Foster. GWYNETH WILLIAMS: Wife of Dr Jac L Williams of Aberystwyth University. D MORGAN REES: Lives at Lisvane, Glam. and has travelled extensively spending winters abroad. WILLIAM A ROBSON: Professor of Public Administration ,at London School of Economics and Political Science since 1947. Recreation: fencing.