It never ceases to amaze me how many poems dead authors write - how do they do it? Is there a secret compound somewhere, where recently dead poets are ressurrected and forced to write new poems? Or do they just leave poems on bits of paper hidden in obscure places, not to be discovered until years ...
I bought this edition of R.S. Thomas' 'Selected Poems' when it came out in the mid-1990s - around the time that the Welsh former priest was nominated for the Nobel Prize - and have dipped in and out of it ever since. This was the first time that I had read it cover to cover, however (by virtue of be...
Let's just ignore the irony/confusion of collecting up a pile of poems, publishing them in a book and titling said book, "Uncollected Poems." They're poems that were never published in a collection during Thomas' lifetime... ...which led me to have low expectations; surely this meant Thomas didn't...
This book contains the collections published in the last decade of Thomas's life and the posthumous collection, Residues. Thematically, it is largely more of the same concerns that featured through-out his career, namely Wales, its people (particularly its farming people), Christian faith (and dou...
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