Background
- Born in
- Cardiff
- Educated at
- Bangor UniversitySt Michael's College
- Awards
- 🏆 Horst Bienek Award for Poetry🏆 King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry🏆 Cholmondeley Award🏆 Heinemann Award
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Trending topics shown first"Alone Together" — a BBC Radio Play about his life and relationship with his wife, by Neil McKay"
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"Any form of orthodoxy is just not part of a poet's province … A poet must be able to claim … freedom to follow the vision of poetry, the imaginative vision of poetry … And in any case, poetry is relig…"
"True Christianity at its most profound is as good as you get. … I think I've been lucky in the period which I've lived through because obviously I would have been for the chop in earlier days. The Inq…"
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1913
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