Literary Bus Tour - T. Harri Jones in Llanafan Fawr

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Literature Wales is delighted to announce a series of new Literary Bus Tours and Walks for 2011. We are taking to the roads, byways and footpaths to bring Wales’ literatures closer to the landscapes in which they are embedded. This year’s programme is more diverse than ever, comprising four bus tours and four walking tours located across the country from Snowdonia to the Brecon Beacons.

T. Harri Jones (1921-1965) is the last great unknown poet of the 20th century. Born at Cwm Grogau, near Builth Wells, he studied at University College, Aberystwyth and became a lecturer at University College, Newcastle, New South Wales. He published three volumes of verse in his lifetime and wrote a great deal more. In them, he appears a confessional poet in the modern manner, baring his life with astonishing frankness and sensitivity. The poems reveal him in all his passion and anguish, his vulnerability and lovability. Lucidly and obsessively, he liberated himself from the cramp of chapel reliogion as from rural isolation to enter the age of anxiety.

This bus tour will visit numerous places from Jones' early life, interspersed with an introduction by P.Bernard Jones and a lecture, readings and commentary by John Pikoulis. The afternoon will finish with a re-dedication, by the poet's sisters, of a statue in honour of T.Harri Jones.