Welsh poetry information

Welsh poetry refers to poetry of the Welsh people or nation. This includes poetry written in Welsh, poetry written in English by Welsh or Wales-based poets...

sometime between AD 400 and 700; the earliest surviving literature in Welsh is poetry dating from this period. The poetic tradition represented in the work...

‘'Dock Leaves, as ‘'The Anglo-Welsh Review'’ and later further defined the term in their anthology Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 as denoting a literature...

International Welsh Poetry Competition is an annual English language poetry award and the largest of its kind in Wales. The contest was founded in 2007 by Welsh writer...

Cumbric as well as Welsh. Jackson, however, believed that the two varieties were already distinct by that time. The earliest Welsh poetry – that attributed...

Journals with a Welsh focus include Cambria (a Welsh affairs magazine published bi-monthly in English), Planet, and Poetry Wales. Welsh-language magazines...

Book of Welsh Verse in English is a 1977 poetry anthology edited by the author and academic Gwyn Jones. It covers both Welsh language poetry in English...

The Welsh (Welsh: Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales. Wales is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. The majority of people living in...

Scottish poetry (see Scottish literature) Welsh poetry Jèrriais poetry Guernésiais poetry Manx poetry Cornish poetry The critic Lyn Pykett has written that...

Even a 9th-century date would make it one of the oldest surviving Welsh works of poetry. The Gododdin, known in Roman times as the Votadini, held territories...

Albanian poetry Bosniak epic poetry British poetry Cornish poetry English poetry Old English poetry Manx poetry Scottish poetry Welsh poetry Anglo-Welsh poetry...

Owain mab Urien, and Coel Hen and his descendants feature in Welsh poetry and the Welsh Triads. Almost nothing is reliably known of Central Britain before...

Rhupunt Byr Rhupunt Hir Rhupunt Hwyaf Tawddgyrch Cadwynog Toddaid Welsh poetry Welsh literature Eisteddfod Stephens, Meic, ed. (1998). The New Companion...

Uther Pendragon (Brittonic) (/ˈjuːθər pɛnˈdræɡən, ˈuːθər/; Welsh: Ythyr Ben Dragwn, Uthyr Pendragon, Uthyr Bendragon), also known as King Uther, was a...

antithesis of free." In Welsh poetry, however, the term has a completely different meaning. According to Jan Morris, "When Welsh poets speak of Free Verse...

elite mercenary soldier for Æthelstan. The foundational masterpiece of Welsh poetry, Y Gododdin (c. 638 – c. 1000), tells how Mynyddog Mwynfawr, the King...

In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music.: xvi  The term eisteddfod...

Patagonian Welsh (Welsh: Cymraeg y Wladfa) is a variety of the Welsh language spoken in Y Wladfa, the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Chubut Province, Argentina...

Wyllt (Welsh: [ˈmərðɪn ˈwɨɬt]—"Myrddin the Wild", Cornish: Marzhin Gwyls, Breton: Merzhin Gouez) is a figure in medieval Welsh legend. In Middle Welsh poetry...

Christian poetry is any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any...

and they lived near Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid) in north Wales. Medieval Welsh poetry refers to her as possessing the cauldron of poetic inspiration (Awen)...

poets, allowing monastic scribes to cultivate vernacular poetry. In legend and medieval Welsh poetry, he is often referred to as Taliesin Ben Beirdd ("Taliesin...

Arthur some time later. Also appears frequently in medieval Welsh poetry, as well as in the Welsh Triads and Cad Goddeu. John T. Koch has suggested a number...

This article focuses on poetry from the UK written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language...

written in the Welsh language. It preserves a collection of Welsh prose and poetry, notably the tales of the Mabinogion and Gogynfeirdd poetry. The manuscript...

Pontypridd trolleybus during World War II International Welsh Poetry Competition International Welsh Poetry Competition based in Pontypridd Definitive guide...

mentioned by the Welsh historian Nennius alongside Taliesin and Aneirin, the last referred to as Aneurin Gwenithwawd ("Aneurin of the Corn Poetry"). The revival...