List Of Writers

JONES, SALLY ROBERTS

3 Crown Street, Port Talbot, SA13 1BG
Tel: (01639) 886186
Email: srjones@alunbooks.co.uk

Poet, critic, local historian. Born in London to a Welsh father, Sally was educated at University College of North Wales, Bangor. She moved to Port Talbot in 1967, where she worked as a freelance lecturer, writer and publisher. Her first book of poems, Turning Away: Collected Poems 1952–1968 (Gomer, 1969), won the Welsh Arts Council Prize in 1969. Sally has published four collections of poetry, critical studies, short stories, folk tales for children, local history, bibliographies of Anglo–Welsh literature. Sally set up Alun Books with her husband Alwyn in the late 1970s.

Selected Publications:
Turning Away: Collected Poems 1952-1968 (Gomer, 1969)
The Forgotten Country (Gomer, 1977)
Elen and the Goblin and other legends (Alun Books, 1977)
Allen Raine (Writers of Wales Series) (University of Wales Press, 1979)
Relative Values (Poetry Wales Press, 1985)
The History of Port Talbot (Alun Books, 1991)
Pendaruis (Alun Books, 1992)
Dic Penderyn (Alun Books, 1993)

Contributed to:
Books of Welsh Interest (editor) (1977)
Over Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (co-editor) (Alun Books, 2000)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Workshops, for all ages, on storytelling
2. Anglo-Welsh children’s literature
3. Getting published
4. Read and discuss own work