List Of Writers

WILLIAMS, HERBERT

63 Bwlch Road, Fairwater, Cardiff, CF5 3BX
Tel: (029) 2065 3211
Email: h.williams13@ntlworld.com
Website: www.herbert-williams.co.uk

Poet, novelist, short story writer, dramatist. Born in Aberystwyth. First collection of poetry published 1965. Journalist, then BBC producer, before becoming full-time writer in 1979. Poems, short stories, plays broadcast by BBC, HTV and Thames Television. Contributor to New Welsh Review, Planet, Cambrensis, Western Mail, The Transatlantic Review, Aquarius, Decal, Iota and other journals. Co-founder of Roundyhouse Poetry Magazine. Awards include Hawthornden Poetry Fellowship 1992. Adjudicated Rhys Davies Short Story Competition 1998. Herbert is a Fellow of Academi. Read A Sample Poem

Selected Publications:
Come Out Wherever You Are (Quartet, 1976)
Stage Coaches in Wales (Stewart Williams, 1977)
Railways in Wales (Christopher Davies, 1981)
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Parks (National Parks Guide) (Webb & Bower, 1989)
Stories of King Arthur (John Jones, 1990)
Ghost Country (Gomer, 1991)
Davies the Ocean: Railway King and Coal Tycoon (University of Wales Press, 1991)
The Stars in their Courses (Alun Books, 1992)
John Cowper Powys (Seren, 1997)
Looking Through Time (Headland, 1998)
A Severe Case of Dandruff (Gomer, 1999)
Voices of Wales (Tempus Oral History Series) (Tempus, 1999) 
The Woman in Back Row (Gomer, 2000)
Punters (Gomer, 2002)
Come Out, Wherever You Are: The Great Escape in Wales (Gomer, 2004)
Wrestling in Mud (Cinnamon, 2007)
The Marionettes (Cinnamon, 2008)

Telvision Scripts:
A Solitary Mister: The Life and Death of Dylan Thomas (BBC2)

Radio Scripts:
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (adaptation) 
The Citadel by AJ Cronin (adaptation)



Wrestling in Mud (Cinnamon, 2007)

"…For anyone in Wales with the slightest interest in who we are and how we manage our rain-driven lives this is essential reading…"
Peter Finch

"…In Wrestling in Mud we encounter Herb Williams at the peak of his powers, a wise, reflective, mature poet who at the same time delights in being as scurrilous and acerbic as a thwarted teenager…"
Ifor Thomas





Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings from/discussions of own poetry or fiction
2. Readings from John Cowper Powys/discussions of his work

AGE RANGE: None. Schoolchildren, students, adults - anything goes!