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Gwyn Thomas’ Blaenau Ffestiniog

‘Avalon, I know, must be something like this.’ Gwyn Thomas

Gomer Press have published a bilingual book of newly commisioned poems by the National Poet of Wales, Gwyn Thomas.  Illustrated with striking full–colour landscape photographs of Gwyn’s native area, Blaenau Ffestiniog, by talented landscape photographer Jeremy Moore.

Blaenau Ffestiniog has inspired many writers and singers but none more so than Gwyn Thomas.  In this splendid book, the National Poet of Wales celebrates the place he described as ‘a bracelet of a town on the bone of rock…’ and pays tribute to those people who worked that rock to shape the Blaenau we know today.

The combination of wild nature and man’s work in the landscape drew the well-known photographer Jeremy Moore to Blaenau Ffestiniog. He was eager to document the effect of the slate-quarrying industry on one of Snowdonia’s most beautiful areas.  In this stunning volume, his striking photographs form a perfect complement to Gwyn Thomas’s magical poems.

Published by Gomer Press, Llandysul, Ceredigion SA44 4JL Wales.  Tel: 01559 362371;  Fax: 01559 363758; gwasg@gomer.co.uk;  www.gomer.co.uk.

Sales and distribution: Welsh Books Council, The Distribution Centre, Glanyrafon Enterprise Park, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3AQ. Tel: 01970 624455;  Fax: 01970 625506;  Email: distribution.centre@wbc.org.uk.

Also available from: Gardners, Bertrams and directly from Gomer Press.