Syniadau ar y Môr (Gwenffrwd)

       “...pan hulio nos o gystudd 
Dros ein llwybrau cnawdol cu, 
Pan na fedd daear un llawenydd, 
Trown ein trem i’r nefoedd fry.”

A native of Flintshire in north-east Wales, the poet Gwenffrwd, the bardic name of Thomas Lloyd Jones (1810-1834), died in exile in Mobile, Alabama, from yellow fever aged just twenty three.

He published a total of fifty-one poems during his short life, which have been collected together for the first time in this volume. Despite his young age, when he died he was already considered a genius by his contemporaries. An innovator in the free metres and one of the first poets to write a sonnet in Welsh, he wanted to inspire a revolution in Welsh poetry. 

His poems discuss timeless subjects such as the fleeting nature of life and the power of the human imagination, and they represent the vanguard of the lyrical tradition in Welsh poetry developed by later poets. This volume is the first publication ever entirely devoted to his poetry.  

Paperback, 128 pp.