Gerallt Lloyd Owen

Gerallt Lloyd Owen (6 November 1944 – 15 July 2014) was a Welsh-language poet, considered to be one of the leading "strict-metre" poets in Wales.[1]

Works

Owen began as a "political poet" in the 1960s, often using medieval forms or imagery for purposes of promoting Welsh nationalism. His political works at times satirized the failings of the Welsh people, or Welsh history, rather than simply praising them.[2]

One of his later works, Afon, is more about childhood. Part of it is quoted in a document on early children's education in Wales.[3]

Death

Owen died on 15 July 2014 in hospital at the age of 69.[4]

Awards

References
  1. Stephen Cushman; Clare Cavanagh; Jahan Ramazani; Paul Rouzer (26 August 2012). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition. Princeton University Press. p. 1538. ISBN 1-4008-4142-9.
  2. Literary devolution: writing in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England by Elinor S. Shaffer, pp. 76–79.
  3. An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies by Trisha Maynard, Nigel Thomas, pp. 126–127.
  4. "Gerallt Lloyd Owen wedi marw". BBC Cymru Fyw (in Welsh). 15 July 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  5. BBC Staff (15 July 2014) "Gerald Lloyd Owen is dead," BBC (London) captured at 17:41 on 15 July 2014 (in Welsh). Literature Wales Archived 2011-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
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