Fiction
ISBN: 9780907476948
Publication date: April 27, 2020
Price: £9.99
The short story has long been a popular form with writers and readers in Wales. The Green Bridge collects work by 25 of the country’s foremost writers of the twentieth century in an entertaining and varied anthology. Horror, satire, humour, war, tales of the aristocracy, of navvies, love, and madness, industry the countryside, politics and sport: these stories provide insight into the changing values of Wales and the world. This is enjoyable reading for those who know Wales and its authors, and for newcomers to both.
Featuring: Dannie Abse, Glenda Beagan, Ron Berry, Duncan Bush, Brenda Chamberlain, Rhys Davies, Dorothy Edwards, Caradoc Evans, George Ewart Evans, Margiad Evans, Sian Evans, Geraint Goodwin, Nigel Helseltine, Richard Hughes, Emyr Humphreys, Glyn Jones, Gwyn Jones, Alun Lewis, Clare Morgan, Leslie Norris, Ifan Pughe, Alun Richards, Jaci Stephen, Dylan Thomas and Gwyn Thomas.
John Davies
Born in 1944, John Davies was brought up in Port Talbot, south Wales, and in Prestatyn where he taught English. He has also taught in Michigan and Washington. In 1986 The Visitor’s Book, his third collection, was joint winner of the Poetry Society’s major award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. John Davies is also a talented wood carver. For more information about John Davies visit his website www.birdsinthewood.co.uk.
John is editor of the short story collection The Green Bridge which is the latest title to be redesigned for the Seren Classics series.
“The Green Bridge fully deserved its place on the bookshelf back in 1988, when it was first published. Its reappearance is a welcome one, being a definite milestone on the journey of Welsh stories in English, which continue to entertain and enthrall travellers who choose this bifurcating, twisting and ultimately cajoling path.”
Jon Gower, Nation Cymru
