
Grahame Davies is a Welsh poet, author and lyricist, who has won numerous prizes, including the Wales Book of the Year Award. As a much-sought-after lyricist, he collaborates extensively with composers and wrote the words for the song ‘Sacred Fire’, which, with Sarah Class’s music performed by South African soprano Pretty Yende, was one of the musical highlights of the Coronation of King Charles III in May 2023, and was described by Andrew Lloyd Webber as ‘mesmerising’. .
Lightning Beneath the Sea
Already well-known for his prizewinning Welsh-language poetry and fiction, and for his scholarly non-fiction, Grahame Davies has now produced his first collection of poems in English.
More info →Real Cambridge
Cambridge: the right brain of Oxbridge, the composite capital city of Clever. For eight centuries, this quiet English seat of learning has been one half of history’s longest-running academic arms race. When it comes to stockpiling Nobel Prizes, only that Ivy League newcomer, Harvard, has more.
More info →Real Wrexham
Wrexham: the Eastern Front of Wales. The place where the tide of Saxon invasion rolled in, hit the mountains and stopped. The place where Owain Glyndwr came to get married, where Elihu Yale came to be buried, and where the giants of English football came to be killed. This is a border town where landscapes, accents and identities meet, mingle and merge. A place where mountain meets plain, Wales meets England, and the Mabinogion meets Man United.
More info →Rhaid I Bopeth Newid
Nofel hynod ddiddorol yn plethu hanes brwydrau ymgyrchwraig ddiflino dros barhad yr iaith a'r cymunedau Cymreig yng Nghymru'r unfed ganrif ar hugain gyda hanes yr ymgyrchwraig radical o Ffrances Iddewig Simone Weil.
A highly interesting novel which interweaves the battles of a 21st century campaigner for the survival of Welsh language and communities with the story of the radical Jewish Frenchwoman campaigner Simone Weil.
More info →The Dragon and the Crescent
Nine Centuries of Contact with Islam
In The Dragon and the Crescent poet and critic Grahame Davies explores the relationship between Wales and Islam through a compilation of writings by Welsh authors.
More info →Alchemy of Water: Alcemi Dwr
This book celebrates the landscape and people of Wales through poems and photographs.
More info →Achos
Yn ei gyfrol Adennill Tir, mynegodd Grahame Davies brofiad cymunedau y Cymoedd gyda dicter ac angerdd. Yn ei ail gyfrol, Cadwyni Rhyddid, a enillodd wobr Llyfr y Flwyddyn, dinoethodd eironi a safonau dwbl y Gymru ôl-ddatganoli gyda ffraethineb. Yn awr, yn ei drydedd gyfrol, y mae'n bwrw golwg annibynnol ar y Gymru gyfoes, gan ofyn cwestiynau dyrys a holi, 'Sut mae'r achos?' -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
More info →The Big Book of Cardiff: New Writing from Europe’s Youngest Capital
The editors Peter Finch and Grahame Davies are ideally placed to select the writers and writing which reflect the changing face of Cardiff.
More info →The Chosen People: Wales and the Jews
The histories of the Welsh people and the Jewish people have entwined in a number of ways over the centuries. The Chosen People uses extracts from Welsh literature to show the two nations have interacted both in Wales and elsewhere.
More info →Cadwyni Rhyddid
Ail gyfrol o farddoniaeth bryfoclyd Grahame Davies yn cynnwys dros 30 o gerddi amrywiol yn adlewyrchu rhagrith a chaethiwed bywyd dinesig Cymry Caerdydd. Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf ym mis Mehefin 2001. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
More info →Oxygen: New Poets from Wales
Thirty poets (fifteen from each language) under 45 from Wales demonstrate the great depth of poetic talent in contemporary Wales.
More info →Meddwl A’r Dychymyg Cymreig
Sefyll Yn Y Bwlch - Cymru A'r Mudiad Gwrth-fodern - Astudiaeth O Waith T.S.Eliot, Simone Weil, Saunders Lewis Ac R.S.Thomas (Y meddwl a'r dychymyg Cymreig)
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