Books Books Books
Category: Anthologies, Fiction, Non Fiction, Poetry, Poetry Anthologies
Number of pages: 160
ISBN: 9781854111869
Publication date: November 25, 1997
Price: £9.99
Celebrate Christmas the Welsh way in the company of some of the country’s leading writers, past and present. Christmas mass, the nativity play, turkey and plum pudding, the Mari Lwyd, presents, the weather, the shopping and post-festive blues are among the many subjects drawn from stories, poems, diaries and letters. Wartime Christmases in Swansea and the Rhondda – and home thoughts from India and Italy – pantomime characters, Christmas cards and New Year Resolutions; R.S. Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Dannie Abse, Gillian Clarke, Catherine Fisher, Bruce Chatwin, Sian James, Kate Roberts and Leslie Norris, Christmas in Wales has all the ingredients for the complete experience of the season of celebration.
Dewi Roberts
Dewi Roberts, who lived in Denbighshire, is well known in Wales as an anthologist. His regional compilations include Visitors’ Delight and A Clwyd Anthology. He published a travel book, The Land of Old Renown, and was an essaysist and reviewer for a number of publications. Apart from literature, his main interest was local history.
