Letters from Wales — Memories and Encounters in Literature and Life

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Ers 1996, ymddangosodd colofn Sam Adams 'Letter from Wales' yn PN Review , un o'r cyfnodolion barddoniaeth ag iddo'r parch uchaf yn y DU. Mae'r golofn wedi cynnig mewnwelediad a gwerthfawrogiad o lenyddiaeth, diwylliant a hanes Cymru, ac mae'r gyfrol flaengar hon yn casglu ynghyd y llythyrau hyn sy'n cwmpasu chwarter canrif o waith.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review , one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters - a quarter century of work.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Sam Adams was born, in 1934, and raised in the small mining valley of Gilfach Goch, when it still possessed three working pits. In common with most of the valley’s children at that time, his father and grandfathers were mineworkers. He was educated at a local primary school, Tonyrefail Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he studied English. He began writing in the corners of a busy working life in the education service, emerging first as a poet. His work appeared in all the Anglo- Welsh magazines and he became successively reviews editor then editor of Poetry Wales . For the University of Wales Press he has written three monographs in the ‘Writers of Wales’ series, on Geraint Goodwin, T J Llewelyn Prichard and Roland Mathias, and edited Mathias’s Collected Poems and Collected Short Stories . His three novels, Prichard’s Nose and In the Vale (both Y Lolfa), and The Road to Zarauz (Parthian) have attracted critical praise, as has Where the Stream Ran Red (Y Lolfa), an amalgam of family and local history. His connection with Manchester-based Carcanet began in 1974 when he edited Ten Anglo-Welsh Poets for the press. Since 1982 he has made more than 150 contributions to its magazine PN Review .

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

‘This is writing in time and over time; the author’s horizons widen as he goes, his impressions change... What is revealed is the generous deep-rootedness of the author’s cultures.’ – Michael Schmidt Since 1996, Sam Adams’s ‘Letter from Wales’ column has been appearing in PN Review , one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period. Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the ‘letters’ are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.