Cromen: 6 books

W H Davies, born in Newport in 1871, is famous for his poem Leisure, which opens -     What is this life if, full of care     We have no time to stand and stare.     No time to stand beneath the boughs     And stare as long as sheep...

The Morgan family live at Abercorran House in Balham - they’re friendly, welcoming, slightly eccentric and Welsh. Arthur Froxfield becomes a frequent visitor and recounts the stories he heard there of swan maidens, the Castle of Leaves and the house of the days of the year. When Arthur...

Ellis Wynne, 1671-1734, was a rector, poet, translator and royalist, but he’s primarily known as the author of Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg which was first published in London in 1703. The Sleeping Bard is led through three visions following the path of sinners on their way to hell. Filled with imagination,...

Spring was late in 1913 and Edward Thomas decided to go and search for winter’s grave and the tell-tale signs of season’s turn. On Good Friday, March 21st, Thomas set out to cycle westwards from London. “I had a wish of a mildly imperative nature that Spring would be arriving among the Quantocks...

The Road to En-dor opens at the Yozgad prisoner of war camp in February 1917, when EH Jones receives a postcard from an aunt – “No news in it, but it suggests a means of passing the evenings. I’m fed up with roulette and cards myself, and I’d like to try it.” Within two days the prisoners...

Hugh Morgan is thinking of getting married… Mwntseison sits on the Welsh coast and in the final years of the nineteenth century Hugh Morgan is the village Mishteer and its major employer. His sail-shed, which is managed by Ivor Parry and provides an income to most of the local households, is central...