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Pen and Plough: 20th-century Poets and Bards of Ceredigion, by Diarmuid Johnson (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch £8.50)
CEREDIGION is renowned among Welsh speakers for its proletarian poets, skilled in their use of the complex traditional metres of Welsh poetry and in this book Diarmuid Johnson explores the considerable published body of their work, mainly from 1933 to 2012.
Nowhere in Europe, says Johnson, has so rich and abundant body of poetry been published in so short a time by so many accomplished writers — working-class poets some of whom had received little formal secondary education.
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