Mae gan wefan Llyfrgell Cenedlaethol Cymru wybodaeth eang ar deitlau a chynnwys llyfrau rhyddiaith a barddoniaeth.
The National Library of Wales's website has information on titles and contents of a wide range of prose and poetry books.
Chris Grooms has fascinating pages, which teem with knowledge of the above, and much more.
I am an e-mail bookshop dealing with medieval and renaissance topics, and am interested in looking for anyone's wants on historic Wales, free of charge. If I don't have the title in my database, I'm glad to have someone tell me about it. I'm linked to 1,500 other used bookstores via a closed net, and can search an inventory of 1,900,000 books. There is currently a set of Celtia available, a bibliography of books related to Welsh studies, only 500 copies printed.
William Taylor G. F. Armoury Books (medievalbk@aol.com)
The David Morgan Co. in Seattle carries a selection of maps and a couple of the more famous books about Welsh history (in English). There is more information on their web site:
Or call 1-800-324-4934, 9am-5pm Pacific Time
I suggest that you call and ask them to send their catalog: their web site is not the easiest to use and seems to have a few bugs in it. Also, it doesn't list the entire catalog.
A better source of Wales-related books, but not of maps, is Celtic Alternatives in Forest Park, IL. Phone: 708-771-7309. Their e-mail address is celticalt@aol.com
If you're in the San Francisco area, you can look for maps at:
The first volume of poetry in the Welsh language to be published on the Web is "Rebel ar y We" by Robin Llwyd ap Owain, winner of the chair at the 1991 National Eisteddfod.
There's a volume of poetry by the students of The Groves School, Wrexham on their website.
A collection of young people's entries (age about 15-25, prose and poetry) in a competition at the Urdd Gobaith Cymru National Eisteddfod 1995 can be seen here.
There is a poetry anthology by the pupils of The Groves (comprehensive) School, Wrexham on their website.
List of Welsh poets/poems:
Dydw i ddim wedi rhestru'r beirdd hynny a anwyd ar ôl 1950. Mae nifer fawr ohonynt, ac mae rhai yn sicr o'u lle ymhlith beirdd mwyaf Cymru. Mae gormod i'w rhestru i gyd, a dydw i ddim yn fodlon creu rhestr fyrrach, fympwyol. - DPJ
I have not listed poets born after 1950. There is a large number of them, and some are assured a place amongst Wales' greatest poets. There are too many to list them all, and I am not prepared to create a shorter list based on my own whims. - DPJ
The magazine "Planet" has poetry by modern Anglo-Welsh poets. Some Anglo-Welsh poets, mainly from earlier this century:
The Mabinogion, W.H Davies
Selected Poems, Oxford Paperbacks (ISBN 0-19-281432-X)
The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English (ISBN 0-19-281397-8)
Read: An Introduction to Welsh Literature; (ISBN 0-7083-1130-X) University of Wales Press
Novels by Raymond Williams and Emyr Humphreys.
"One Full Moon", a translation of Caradog Prichard's "Un Nos Ola Leuad", which portrays life in a North Wales village very vividly, as seen through the eyes of a young boy whose mother is losing her sanity.
The plays and autobiographies ("George", "Emlyn" and "George Emlyn") of Emlyn Williams.
Interesting insights into Welsh traditional tales, and into Welsh life can be found in Saunders Lewis' plays, many of which have been translated.
"Parables and Faxes" - Gwyneth Lewis ; Bloodaxe Books 1995. (ISBN: 1 85224 319 8)
"Eucalyptus" - Detholiad o Gerddi - Menna Elfyn; Selected Poems 1978-94. Gomer. 1995. (ISBN 1 85902 189) 1.
"Cell Angel" - Menna Elfyn; Welsh-English Bilingual Edition. Bloodaxe Books. 1996. (ISBN 1-85224-384-8) 1.
Books published by the Welsh Folk Museum at Sain Ffagan, Cardiff, are very good on Welsh traditions and folk history.
DPJ
Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru (the University of Wales Press) - see below - have published an excellent adaptation of Mabinogi stories by Gwyn Thomas. Available in Welsh and English.
There's also a book with smaller pages but more text and fewer (though good) pictures, which consists of parts of each Mabinogi story, adapted by Rhiannon Ifans. That's published by Y Lolfa, and is also available in Welsh and English.
Addresses etc:
Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru (University of Wales Press)BTW, the above URL (Y Lolfa) leads to a lot of pages with information about Welsh publishers, bookshops, theatres, media, travel, etc., etc.
The story of Rhiannon is beautifully presented in a series of pages by Rhiannon (Rhi) Kerins from Maryland.
DPJ
Llanerch Publishers. They publish or supply quite a few books on this sort of theme, and I have bought stuff like the Black Book of Carmarthen, Taliesin poems, Brut y Tywysogion etc. from them. Write and ask for a catalogue. Their prices tend to be pretty reasonable.
Llanerch Publishers,Two academic articles in English about Cynghanedd (strict metres in Welsh poetry) by Toby D. Griffen may be found on his web pages.
Barry Taylor suggested the inclusion of the following English englyn in this section. It was written by Gerallt Lloyd Owen. Read it aloud. Cynghanedd, like most music, is designed for the ear.
DPJ
On every grave I hear a groan,
A sigh as old as creation,
Unmeasured in emotion -
Could it be, maybe, my own?