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WILLIAMS, EVAN GWYN

38 Portland Road, West Bridgeford, Nottingham, NG2 6DL

Born in 1938 in Neath to Welsh–speaking parents, Evan was raised in Rhigos Halt and Penderyn. He was educated at Rhigos Primary School, Vaynor and Penderyn Grammar School, Coleg Harlech and Manchester Polytechnic, where he gained an honours degree in English. Evan has worked as a quarry worker, steelworker, psychiatric nurse, civil servant and secondary school teacher. His stories and poems have been broadcast from the BBC and published in Stand, Tambimuttu’s London/New York, Poetry Wales, The Anglo–Welsh Review, Planet and Norman Hidden’s Workshop. He was a member of the Group Poetry Workshop which included Peter Porter, George MacBeth, Alan Brownjohn and Philip Hobsbawm which met at 21 Earl’s Court in 1968. From 1976-78 he worked for Tambimuttu on Poetry London/New York. Evan writes in a variety of forms including the sonnet, heroic couple and elaborate metaphysical schemata.

Selected Publications:
The Clown and other poems (Triskel Press, 1971)
Putting Hank Janson Aside (Tuba Press, 1977)
The Welsh Private Eye (Wizard Press)
Rhigos Halt (Wizard Press)
The White Balloon and Other Poems (Tuba Press, 1998)
Dancing In the Mirrors (Redbeck Press, 1998)
Celebration and Death of Susan Constance (1944-1997)  (Tuba Press, 2000)
Invocation of Manawydan (Shoestring Press, 2000)
Mammon (Tuba Press, 2003)
WYNN: The Life of a Proletarian Pushed from Pillar to Post (1948-1976) (Tuba Press, 2007)


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