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Penderyn’s Grave The
Eloquence of Sorrow
Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis) was born and was buried in my home parish of Aberafan. He was unjustly hung for his part in the Merthyr Riots of 1831. A not insignificant part of my growing up involved apocryphal stories about this working class hero and martyr. |
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poem. Alternately Penderyn's Grave. Learn more about the Merthyr Riots. |
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Silver Terrace Cemetery (Virginia City, Nevada)
They were looking for gold, at first throwing away silver-bearing rocks, when someone realized the folly, and the Comstock Lode was discovered in Virginia City, Nevada. It was the richest silver discovery in history, attracting miners and camp followers from all over the world, including people from Wales and even Mark Twain. The city's cemetery readily attests to an extraordinary diversity of dreamers. Ironically, some of the old mines actually extended under the resting place of many of these miners. This irony inspired the following poem. |
| Listen to John's take on the
poem. Alternately Silver Terrace Cemetary. |
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Idris Speaks Idris Davies was a miner, teacher and
poet who T.S. Eliot thought captured the atmosphere of
the 1926 General Strike better than anyone else. His
work received a welcome second look when Pete Seeger
used a part of one of his poems as a lyric for the
1965 folk song "Bells of Rhymney". The Pop group The
Birds turned it into a major hit.
The poem is a monologue I wrote to accompany my version of the song that includes some of his actual words. |
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For more information on Idris Davies, see the Wikipedia page. |
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talking to Dylan
Thomas...
Questions in Llareggub ...at the
Boathouse
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piece. Alternately Questions in Llareggub. From the album From the First 1500 Years of Welsh Poetry. |
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Kelly and John
the Boathouse, some time ago...
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love and loss of
childhood...
Mawl a Marwnad Afan In Praise and Lamentation for Afan |
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John. Alternately Mawl a Marwnad Afan. I have two short stories about Christmas in Afan, Magic Amongst the Slag Heaps & Once upon a Star |
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the River Afan
by David Good
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