The Finch Archive: Wales

• Real Wales
  the whole country
  
• Welsh Literary Links
  the best links page to Welsh literary sites on the web
• Welsh Union of Writers
  rare photographs from 1982
  
• Real Cardiff
  What it's like living here
• Oriel: How It Was
  a short history of the Welsh bookshop 1974-1998
• R.S.Thomas Information
  the alternative database on wales' greatest poet
• The Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency
  The 1998 Press Release describing Finch's move from the Oriel Bookshop and the establishment of the re-launched Welsh Academy
• Zen Cymru
  the sound of one Welsh hand clapping
• Cylch Llên Cymru
  The Web Ring of Welsh Literary Sites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welsh Literary Links

A collection of sites with both literary and Welsh connections where the language used is English. Inclusions and amendments welcome. Part of the Peter Finch Archive

1. Academi - Yr Academi Gymreig / The Welsh Academy
   The official site. Contains a clickable what's-on in literary Wales directory, updated listings on the writers and the publishers of Wales, comprehensive low down on the new Academi, an interactive literary discussion forum, news from Ty Newydd, Taliesin and The New Welsh Review, a section covering breaking Welsh literary news and more. All this in two languages. Visit soon.
2. Moira Andrew
   the Welsh-based children's author .
   
3. Annedd y Cynganeddwyr
   Cartref cynghanedd ar y we
4. Apecs Press
   stories with a Welsh dimension
   
5. Arts Council of Wales
   a guide to ACW's services and a glimpse of the Council's minutes
6. The Bard of Ely
   Ely, Cardiff, naturally. All you need to klnow about Steve Andrews, poet, naturalist, druid.
   
7. The Box
   the online novel
8. Andi Ballard
   poetry and zippy action
9. Bwlet
   AHRB BWLET - the Bibliography of Welsh Literature in English Translation - Swansea's Wynn Thomas powered site that connects Welsh literature with the world
   
10. Bys A Bawd
    Dafydd Gwawr's West Wales bookstore
11. Anne Bennett
    North Wales-based Bennett is one of the UK's leading saga writers
12. The Best Of Wales
    The all-Wales search engine
    
13. Bloomsbury Magazine's Welsh Issue
    includes John Williams's round-up of the new Welsh writers, short fiction from Des Barry and Niall Griffiths, the Dylan Thomas myth and more. Look under Back Issues for March, 2002 - Vulcanised by John Williams
14. Anne Bryan's Strange Attractor
    poetry and fractals, science and mythology, Darwin and dreams. Includes Bryan's own work, a feature on the poet Stevie Smith plus biography and work from Chris Torrance
    
15. Robert Dafydd Cadwalader
    Criccieth based family, maritime, Welsh poetry, myths and legend pages, and loads too.
16. David Callard
    biographies, short stories, and some interesting inside gen on the literary doings of Wales
    
17. Books In Cardigan
    second hand and rare bookselling with a searchable site
18. Bridgend Writers Circle
    The best writing in Glamorgan
    
19. Dennis Carter
    Home page of the educationalist and poet
    
20. Celtica
    home of all things Celtic in Wales and elsewhere
21. The Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
    home of Beirdd yr Uchelwyr - The Poets of the Nobility
22. Gillian Clarke - The Poet's Home Pages
    the official site with poems, biography, bibliography, poems and details of where the poet will be appearing next.
23. Coffeehouse Poetry
    Jan Fortune-Wood's Blaenau Ffestiniog based poetry magazine
    
24. Columbia Publishing
    Wales' newest publisher - jazz, fiction, tv and zip
    
25. C.R.E.W. - Centre for Research into the English Language and Literature of Wales
    Swansea University developing archive of author photographs, biographies, and links
26. Creative Writing at Cardiff University
    details of visiting writers
    
27. Cyfwe
    website for the translation of Welsh literature - a large and developing resource
28. Cylch Llên Cymru
    The Ring of Welsh Literature
29. Stevie Davies
    fast loading site from the Booker longlisted Welsh novelist. Selections from the books, reviews, bookshop, critical comment and much more.
30. Malachy Doyle
    entertaining homesite of the children's author
    
31. Dogtown Diaries
    Welsh screenwriter Col Jones' fiction
    
32. George Dreher
    A Texas author's look at the life of "Lluellen Rebel in Wales, 1593"
33. Dylans Bookstore
    Jeff Towns' Swansea Based Dylan Thomas specialist bookshop
34. The Dylan Thomas Centre
    Swansea's centre for the 1999 Dylan Thomas festival & other literary events
35. Dylan Thomas Festival
    The annual event
    
36. Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru
    The National Eisteddfod hits the new millennium
37. Menna Elfyn
    bi-lingual site from the Bloodaxe poet
    
38. Equivocal
    Home of the artist and writer Kelvin Hayes
39. The John Evans Official Website
    The homepage for this Valley's writer
40. The World of Lionel Fanthorpe
    a very dynamic site devoted to the Welsh science fiction and fantasy author, broadcaster and adventurer.
41. Mario Fiorillo
    the poet's photos
    
42. Catherine Fisher
    poetry, fantasy and fiction
43. Deborah Fisher - Tregolwyn Book Reviews
    independent book reviews
    
44. Ken Follett
    Yes, he's Welsh. The fiction writer.
    
45. Matthew Francis
    poetry and fiction from the Faber author now teaching creative writing at the University of Glamorgan
46. Gallery Bouglaf
    Poet Douglas Houston's multi-purpose art/poetry/history/satire website
47. Jean Gill
    the flash-aided site of the west of Whitland poet
48. John Gimblett
    the Newport author's poems and travels
    
49. Gwasg Gomer
    introduction, back catalogue and a fascinating museum from Gomer Press, Llandysul, one of Wales' oldest publisher/printers.
50. Lesley Grant-Adamson
    Crime Fiction UK - home of the Welsh Faber-published crime author
51. The Transmudane Worlds of Alex Greene
    poet, short story writer and specialist in Klingon.
52. David Greenslade
    the books of of poet Greenslade, one of Wales's greatest new gen nonconformists.
53. Basil Griffith's Khasia
    Wales in India
54. Viv Griffiths
    poet, seaman, dramatist, fiction writer, raconteur - it's all here, pictures too
55. Philip Gross
    The poet, novelist and creative writing tutor
    
56. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
    introduction and catalogue
57. Hay Festival of Literature
    full programme, booking details and history
58. John Harrison
    the travel & fiction writer, lecturer and explorer
    
59. David Hart
    The Aberystwyth born poet's home pages
    
60. Paul Henry
    Home page of the Seren poet
61. Greg Hill - The Spirit World
    the poet's pages
62. Rhys Hughes
    information about the Swansea author. "Here's a Welshman worthy to succeed John Cowper Powys. The stories in The Smell of Telescopes are quirky, dark, funny and weirdly Celtic." said Michael Moorcock
    
63. Honno
    The Welsh Women's Press
64. Raymond Humphreys
    science fiction, travel, poetry, visual arts & work for children from the Penybont author
65. Brian John
    Flying With Angels - The Pembrokeshire novelist's fifth in the saga
    
66. Dylan Jones
    Poetry, art music - The Next Worse Thing and more
67. Esmond Jones
    ex-coalminer turned poet
    
68. Patrick Jones
    new site & new poems from the young dynamo
69. Phyllis Jones
    Wales, the west, Cornwall and back - a comprehensive and well designed author site
    
70. Francesca Kay
    poetry and gardening
71. Alex Keegan
    Crime & literary fiction writer's homepage which also contains extensive coverage of Welsh writing
72. The King Never Dies
    Gary Greenwood's new fantasy novel - flash aided, graphically intense and that's just the site
73. Tim Lebbon
    the Monmouthshire-based sf author
    
74. Gwyneth Lewis
    poetry, prose and a map of her round the world voyage.
75. Tim Liardet
    The Seren poet's excellent site
    
76. Robin Llywelyn
    bi-lingual site devoted to the work of one of Wales's leading innovative fiction writers. Novel, short stories, biography - all with copious extracts. One of the best designed Welsh sites on the web.
77. Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
    Home page - bibliographic notes, list of books
78. The Mabinogion
    The Welsh Folktales in comprehensive detail
79. Susan Mann
    Poetry and songs
    
80. Candice Morgan
    Pontypridd author shows us her poetry and images
81. John Morgan
    Polarity's Child - animated poems and photographs
    
82. Mercator-Mosaic
    promoting literature across frontiers and across languages
83. Christopher Meredith
    the poet and novelist
    
84. Jon Mitchell
    poems and pop-ups from this Swansea born writer now resident in Japan
85. Goff Morgan
    the Newport Town Poet's work
86. Nicholas Murray
    the poet, novelist and critic from the Welsh marches
    
87. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol / The National Library of Wales
    the heavy stuff
88. Old Stile Press
    the private press of Frances & Nicolas McDowall
    
89. Panda
    Esmond Jones's on-line literary magazine
    
90. Parthian Books
    home of Richard Davies's excellent enterprise
91. Alan Perry
    site of award-winning Welsh poet, painter and short-story writer. Poems, paintings, drawings - and a short story.
    
92. Barry Edgar Pilcher
    poetry from the Cardiff beat, now resident in Donegal - love and peace and saxophones of reality
    
93. Planet
    excellent site from the Welsh Internationalist
94. Poetic Occasions
    Steelworker Colin Lewis's profitable sideline. Name the occasion, pay the fee (£10.00) and get the poem back by e-mail
95. Poetry Wales
    The magazine's own site
    
96. The Poetry Of Wales- Gwarnant
    Jeff Davies's medieval archive
97. John Pook
    work from the Anglo-Welsh poet
    
98. Richard Poole
    extensive site from the author and poet
    
99. The Preseli Bluestones
    Sion Pysgod's fiction from the Pembrokeshire mountains
100. Selwyn Pritchard
     work from the late poet
     
101. Sheenagh Pugh
     The prize winning poet's home page - now much expanded - contains contains selections from her new collection, The Beautiful Lie (Seren), as well as a FAQS page for schools
102. Rack Press
     Nicholas Murray's Wales-based poetry pamphleteers
103. Reminiscences of Wales 1924 - 1942
     Nathan Hughes' history
     
104. Catherine Robinson
     the west Wales children's author
     
105. Raw Nerve & Razor Blade Press On Line
     Darren Floyd's Cardiff based dark fiction magazine and book publisher
106. Catherine Robinson
     the north Wales-based children's author
     
107. lloyd robson
     poems and more from the Cardiff-based author
     
108. SAMWAW
     The South and Mid Wales Association of Writers - news and contact, diary and much more
     
109. Scrawl
     Wales's new on-line young-orientated lit fiction poetry whatever magazine
110. Scriveners
     Abergavenny's Hen & Chicks writers group
     
111. A Sense of City Road
     Lloyd Robson's poetry photomontage recreation of the Cardiff street
112. Seren Books
     home of Wales's leading publisher of Welsh writing in English
     
113. Labi Siffre - So Strong
     The home page for the well-know singer-songwriter, poet and dramatist
     
114. Owen Sheers
     work from the Welsh born poet
115. Jonathan Shipton
     The Carmarthenshire children's author and poet
     
116. Penny Simpson
     Dog Days - Penny's short fiction
     
117. Iain Sinclair
     The Complete Review Sinclair pages - reviews, bibliography, links, data
118. Sins
     The Carmarthen writers site
     
119. Skald
     the north Wales based poetry mag edited by Zoe Skoulding & Maldwyn Thomas
     
120. Slope
     #8 of this on-line literary magazine is a Welsh issue guest edited by Peter Finch. A snap shot of verse writing (mainly in English) in Wales today
     
121. Softopia
     the literary diaries, found poems, design futures and imagined software of John Chris Jones
     
122. Spareman Joe Pumford
     the performance poet and mainstay of Newport's Stow Hill Poets shows us how it is
123. Susan Richardson
     home pages from the writer and workshop leader
     
124. Jenny Sullivan - The Magic Apostrophe
     home page of the well-known children's author
125. Swansea & District Poets
     Esmond Jones' Abertawe come-all-ye
126. Tanglost Tales
     Chris S Stephens' independent consultancy and literart resource site for schools. Author of the Pembrokeshire based Tanglost tales.
     
127. Alison Taylor
     the Gwynedd based novelist
128. The Life And Work Of Dylan Thomas
     An excellent site with poetry, prose, biography, photos and embeded sound files.
     
129. Neurotic Poets: Dylan Thomas
     a new look at the bard
     
130. Dylan Thomas - The Official Site
     Chronology, Dylan Thomas Festival, Dylan Thomas Centre, the works
     
131. Dylan Thomas
     a selection of his poems
132. Dylan Thomas UK
     Pat Hughes' Merthyn Theatre Company and their Dylan Thomas performances
     
133. The Dylan Thomas Prize
     The biennial literary prize for authors under 30
     
134. R S Thomas Study Centre
     Wales' greatest twentieth century poet - 1913-2000. Bangor's complete archive
135. R S Thomas Blogspot
     life through the medium of R S.
     
136. Barry Tobin
     includes poetry from this Cork-born Cardiff-based former-librarian and expert on the Irish Famine
137. Chris Torrance
     the champion adventurer on the web at Anne Bryan's site
138. Transcript
     Literature Across Frontiers - on-line journal in English, French and German.
139. Twmbarlwm Writer's Guild
     Writers Group pages (with homework)
     
140. Ty Newydd
     home site for the north Wales writers' centre
     
141. University of Wales Press
     one of the earliest of the Welsh presses to go on line. Not as academic as you'd think.
142. Unsafe Poems
     Ifor Thomas's unsafe sex web site
     (temporarily off line)
143. Verso
     where poetry gets up close to music - Verso is a Cardiff poet
     
144. Virtual Cardiff
     includes much arts coverage including what's on for writers
     
145. Visions of Caradoc
     Tom Davies celebrates his new book, The Media, Prophecy and Violence with a splendid spoof of Welsh preaching complete with sample sermons and Cwm Rhondda playing on the chapel organ in the background. Alternative Christians enter here.
146. Wales Arts International
     Arts Council of Wales & British Council pages. Includes information of Welsh magazines and other support for literature.
147. Wales On Fire
     Where writers, rappers and film-makers deal with everyday events in Welsh towns and housing estates. Click the map. Right where you live.
     
148. Wales On Line - Books
     A-Z books about Wales listing
149. The Well Versed Society
     Cardiff-based dead poets society. Check here for meetings
     
150. The Welsh Books Council
     home of book distribution and book information.
     Check Gwales - "Your Key To The Books Of Wales" for their comprehensive on-line database of Welsh books in print
151. Welsh Literature - An Introduction
     a pretty detailed twenty chapter introduction to literature in the Welsh language from its origins to today. The site includes links to a similar introduction to Welsh history as well as to Wales in general.
152. Welsh literature Abroad
     who is going where and what's been translated
     
153. Welsh Science Fiction Association
     sf in the land of the red dragon
     
154. Welsh Writing In English Yearbook
     data on Tony Brown's critical essays annual
     
155. Andrew Craig Williams
     new poetry and a lively site - recent overhaul
     
156. David Williams
     the Welsh crime novelist's web site - Chief Inspector Merlin Parry solves it again
157. Herbert Williams
     home base for the poet, novelist and broadcaster - recently neatly revamped by Ann Williams of Willow Web Design
158. The Wolfman Knew My Father
     Anthony Brockway's notes from the margins of Welsh culture. Some writers.
     
159. Working Title Writers
     site of the Cardiff based performance and slam champions. The group may no longer function but like a cyber ghost the site lives on.
160. World Wide Wales TV
     Well worth a look - audio and visual clips from Wales including biographies of a number of authors including Idris Davies, Dylan Thomas and R S Thomas. Bi-lingual.
     
161. Writers' Holiday
     Anne Hobbs Caerleon six day annual residential writers' conference. Full details.
     
162. Year of Reading
     the all-Wales approach
163. Young Welsh and Poetic
     just what it says on the tin
     
164. Your Stories
     From Newport to Cardiff and Bridgend, Monmouth to Merthyr, Your Stories aims to write the map of South East Wales with poems, essays and short stories from or about the area. Send in your writing (no more than 300 words please) to wales.southeast@bbc.co.uk - and they'll add you to the map.
     
     
     And if you can't find what you want from the above then go directly to Wales On the Web, the Assembly funded comprehensive gateway run by the National Library of Wales.

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