The Writers of Wales Database

DAVIES, JASON WALFORD

35 Bryn Adda, Ffordd Penrhos, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2LJ
Telephone: (01248) 671407 (home) / (01248) 382239 (work)
Email: WES009@bangor.ac.uk

Critic and literary historian. Born in Aberystwyth and educated at Bangor University, where he is now a lecturer in the Welsh Department. His main areas of research are Welsh poetry from the Middle Ages and the twentieth century, Anglo-Welsh literature – R.S Thomas’ work in particular – and translation. Much of his work explores the relationship between the two literatures of Wales. Winner of the Crown at the National Eisteddfod in Newport 2004 for his poem ’Egni’.

Selected Publications:
Gororau’r Iaith: R. S. Thomas A’r Traddodiad Cymraeg (University of Wales Press, 2003)
R.S.Thomas and Kyffin Williams (Fy Hanes I) (Gomer, 2006)

Contributed to:
ACB Neb by R.S. Thomas (editor) (Gomer, 1995)
Cof Ac Arwydd: Ysgrifau Ar Waldo Williams (co-editor) (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2006)
Gweledigaethau: Cyfrol Deyrnged Yr Athro Gwyn Thomas (editor) (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2007)
R.S. Thomas: Letters to Raymond Garlick, 1951-1999 (editor) (Gomer, 2009)