Meic Stephens

Standard Name: Stephens, Meic

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Sheenagh Pugh
SP contributed to an anthology of Welsh writers, Poets Against Apartheid, 1986, a poem entitled Because. She is also represented in later Welsh anthologies: Twentieth-Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry, edited by Dannie Abse ...
Occupation Gillian Clarke
She and Meic Stephens had first seen the house in August 1989: a building of Queen Anne appearance, with some parts dating from more than a century earlier, once owned by David Lloyd George ...
Publishing Gillian Clarke
Not published until her thirties, GC has been seen as a late starter.
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer, June 1997.
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Of her first attempts at poetry-writing she has said: I threw my first poems in the bin because I was unaware...

Timeline

: Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published...

Writing climate item

Spring 1965

Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published at Merthyr Tydfil, partly in order to allow English-language poets to contribute to the revitalised nationalist culture of the period.
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Texts

Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.