wales

DAVIES from kendrive ^Pro 674 days old

With R.S. Thomas, you can't get away from the Church or Welsh characters for long. Here he tells of a Deacon, who doesn't seem able to control his wandering ...

PHTHISIS from kendrive ^Pro 680 days old

R.S. Thomas brings us a picture of illness and decay in his native countryside. THE WELSH HILL COUNTRY Too far for you to see The fluke and foot-rot ...

MECHANISATION from kendrive ^Pro 681 days old

Iago Prytherch (yesterday) was a real old man of the land and continued farming in the ancient tradition. He used horses to pull his plough and shunned ...

WHO IS IAGO PRYTHERC? from kendrive ^Pro 687 days old

[ ... ] the mid Wales and Thomas chose it for his character so that non-Welsh readers could pronounce it. While "Iago" is the Welsh common first name and ...

IF I WERE A BLACKBIRD from kendrive ^Pro 688 days old

R.S. Thomas was very close to nature in his beloved Welsh countryside. Here he comments on the rich, but loaded, song of the blackbird. A BLACKBIRD ...

SWEET SUSURRATION from kendrive ^Pro 828 days old

A simple, descriptive poem by JB. Just right for the hot weather that is forecast for the next few days. I like that phrase "susurration"; It sounds ...