Clawr sengl ‘Peintio’r Byd yn Wyrdd’, Dafydd Iwan, Recordiadau Sain, 1970 In May 2021 I was invited by Professor Kirsti Bohata to join a reading group she was convening for Peak, an arts organisation based in the Black Mountains.  The group was one of a series of reading groups being held to commemorate the centenary…

A 1970 novel by Welsh language author and Plaid Cymru activist Islwyn Ffowc Elis features a terrifying encounter with the deep past. Y Gromlech yn yr Haidd (The Cromlech in the barley) depicts a chilling confrontation between an incomer and a megalithic stone structure known locally as Cerrig Mawr yr Hendre (The Large Stones of…

In May 2022 I travelled to Wexford, Ireland carrying water collected from a spring next to the church where I was baptised, a church dedicated to St David. On the 22nd June 2022 I poured that water into a newly re-instated well at Killagowan, on the pattern day of St Mochua to whom the well…