Christine Evans

Christine Evans has published six collections of poetry. Cometary Phases was Welsh Book of the Year in 1989 and her Selected Poems won the inaugural Roland Mathias Prize in 2005 with praise for her “fresh eye and boldness of metaphor, a sense of living on the threshold of other worlds.”

She has also published prose in the form of landscape pieces and stories for children, and was commissioned to write a year’s journal and an extended account of a solitary journey to St David’s in midwinter. She is at present writing a personal history of the area where she lives.

Born in west Yorkshire, Evans came as a teacher of English to Pwllheli, her father’s birthplace, almost forty years ago and has lived on the Llyn Peninsula ever since. She had an interest in learning Welsh from an early age, having picked up a few words from her grandmother. In 1969 she married into a family which had farmed on the island of Bardsey (Ynys Enlli) for many generations. She began writing poetry suddenly during maternity leave in 1976, and her first book was published seven years later.

She is an experienced writing tutor, regularly teaching courses at Ty Newydd and on Bardsey Island, where she spends half the year with her fisherman husband and son. Her life there is usually too busy and briskly physical to allow for much writing. but she feels that she draws on its imagery of light and water through the winter months at her desk.

DICTIONARY OF THE PLACE-NAMES OF WALES
by Hywel Wyn Owen and Richard Morgan

An authoritative dictionary of the meanings and derivations of Welsh placenames.
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FROM AFRICA TO ICELAND: A VISUAL CELTIC VOYAGE
by John Rogers

A collection of paintings by Welsh artist John Rogers.
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MEGAN THE DETECTIVE
by Frances Thomas

It's amazing what you notice as a trainee detective!
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MOVE OVER, ROVER
by Jac Jones

A heart-warming picture book about rivalry and friendship…
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ON OPEN GROUND
by Tia Jones

Love, loss and betrayal on the wild west Wales coast.
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ABC DEWIN Y CI / DEWIN THE DOG ABC
by Maggy Roberts

Learning the Welsh alphabet is fun with Dewin the dog.
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BATS AT BAY
by Sheena Crossley

The search for the perfect home begins...
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SAINT DAVID OF DEWISLAND
by Nona Rees

The lore and legend of the patron saint of Wales.
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POEMS OF LOVE AND LONGING

Ten of Wales's foremost poets offer new insights into the most intense and intoxicating of all emotions.
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WOLF GOES TO SEA
by Rob Lewis

Another humorous story from the Cold Jac series.
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ON THIS MOUNTAIN

A sumptuous celebration of the mountains of Wales.
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