Major articles and anthologies

A selection of articles and poems in periodicals, anthologies and collections. 

Articles in journals and collections

  • 2025: 'Beirdd Bro Maelor', in Barddas, Haf 2025, #366, p. 40-46.
  • 2023: 'Lineage and Loss: Practising a Traditional Art in Changing Times': Book 2.0  Volume 13, Issue 1, Jul 2023, p. 39 - 49.
  • 2022: 'Wales and Islam: Contact, Coexistence and Conflict in Nine Centuries of Literature,' in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Vol 28, 2022, pp 94-113.
  • 2017: North East Wales: Unfamiliar Complexities", The Welsh Agenda, Winter 2017, No 59, p 26-27.
  • 2017: "Yr angen am wreiddiau" ("The need for roots"), article in E. Gwynn Matthews (ed) Argyfwng Hunaniaeth a Chred; Ysgrifau ar Athroniaeth J.R.Jones, (Y Lolfa, 2017) 143-161. Volume of essays about Identity and Belief in the work of the philosopher J.R.Jones.
  • 2016: Entry on 'Irony' for the Esboniadur online encyclopaedia commissioned by Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, the national Welsh-language college, 2016.
  • 2016: Entry on Bryan Martin Davies for the Bywgraffiadur, online Dictionary of Welsh Biography commissioned by the National Library of Wales, 2016.
  • 2013: 'In the Chapel of the Spirit'. Article on R.S Thomas in Ed. Ali Anwar Encounters with R.S., (H'mm Foundation, 2013). 
  • 2012: 'Everything Must Change', in Eds. John Osmond and Peter Finch 25/25 Vision. Welsh Horizons across 50 years, (Institute of Welsh Affairs) 2012, 31-35.
  • 2012: 'On Mohammed Farid Street, A response to David M Beddoe's The Lost Mameluke: A Tale of Egypt', New Welsh Review, #96 Summer 2012, 26-35.
  • 2011: 'The Dragon and the Crescent', Arches Quarterly, Volume 4, Edition 8, Spring / Summer 2011, Europe's Islamic Past140-146.
  • 2011: 'Wales and Islam', Planet, Number 201, February 2011, 104-114.
  • 2007: 'The Novelist, the Nun and the Biscuit Tin', Eds. Valerie Henitiuk and Amanda Hopkinson, In Other Words, The Journal For Literary Translators, Number 30, Winter 2007, 74-79.
  • 2006: 'Bryan Martin Davies', Ed. Robert Rhys, Y Patrwm Amryliw, Cyfrol 2, (Barddas, 2006), 91-101. Article on the poet Bryan Martin Davies.
  • 2006: "'By Lightning Beneath the Sea': New Media in the Welsh language." Mercator Media Forum, Vol 9, (University of Wales Press, 2006), p.69-83. Ed. George Jones.
  • 2004: "Be 'Di Llyfr y Flwyddyn Rhwng Ffrindia'?' Barddas, No. 278, July / August 2004, 50-52. The experience of judging the Book of the Year competition.
  • 2004: "Sleeping with the Enemy: The Tensions of Literary Translation", New Welsh Review, No 64, Summer 2004, 58-64. 
  • 2004: "Dechreuadau: Y Gymraeg a'r Cyfryngau Newydd", Cyfrwng Media Wales Journal, Vol. 1, 2004, 26-41. Eds. James Thomas, Gwenno Ffrancon. New media in the Welsh language.
  • 2004: Defining a Nation: Wales and the BBC, BBC Wales, 2004. Jointly edited with Patrick Hannan. Essays by various authors on the role of the BBC in Wales.
  • 2004: "Welsh and Jewish: Responses to Wales by Jewish Writers", Culture and the State, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2004, Volume 3, 211. Eds James Gifford, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux. 
  • 2004: "Borders in the Mind", Agenda, Spring 2004, 4-9. Border mentalities in Wales and elsewhere.
  • 2003: “Minority Report"; Cardiff Central, ed Francesca Rhydderch, Gomer, 2003. Autobiograhical essay on background in Cardiff.
  • 2002: Plamak (“Flame”), Number. 3-4, Bulgaria, 2002. Guest-edited edition of Bulgaria's leading literary magazine, devoted to writers from Wales. 
  • 2002: “Bryan Martin Davies”, Mae'n Gêm o Ddau Fileniwm, Beirdd a Barddoniaeth, (Carreg Gwalch, 2002). Ed. Myrddin ap Dafydd.
  • 2002: “Wythnos yng Nghymru’r Byd”: Chwileniwm (University of Wales Press, 2002). Ed. Angharad Price. New technology and the Welsh language.
  • 2002: Success against the odds”, New Welsh Review No. 55, 2002. A critical study of the best Welsh-language poets under 45. 
  • 2001/2: “Resident Aliens; R.S.Thomas and the Anti-Modern Movement”: Welsh Writing in English, 7/2001-2 Ed. Tony Brown. 
  •  2001: “Adennill Tir”, Merthyr a Thaf, (Gomer, 2001). Ed. Hywel Teifi Edwards. Autobiographical essay on background in Merthyr Tydfil.“
  • 2000: “Rhagfur a Rhagfarn: gwrth-semitiaeth yng ngwaith Saunders Lewis, T.S.Eliot a Simone Weil”; Taliesin, No. 100, 2000. Anti-semitism in the work of Saunders Lewis, T.S.Eliot and Simone Weil.

Poems in anthologies

  • 2025: 'To the Nameless Ones' and 'I'r Rhai Dienw', poems in Afonydd / Poems for Welsh Rivers by Arachne Press, 2025.
  • 2021: Where the Birds Sing Our Names, an anthology for Ty Hafan, ed. Tony Curtis (Seren, 2021).
  • 2021: 100 Poems to Save the Earth, eds Zoe Brigley and Kristian Evans, (Seren, 2021), 100 poets respond to the climate crisis.
  • 2020: Arrival at Elsewhere, 100 poets respond to the pandemic, curated by Carl Griffin, (Against the Grain, 2020), pp 2, 64, 65, 70.
  • 2020: Ouroboros Review, Vol. 1. Winter 2020, University of Chicago, poems in English translation p 42 & 52.
  • 2019: Poems from Cardiff, Ed. Amy Wack, (Seren, 2019) , Collection of poetry from the Capital.
  • 2017: Poem, 'Coch', ('Red') in the anthology The Old Red Tongue, (Francis Boutle, 2017), featuring 300 pieces of Welsh writing from the 6th Century to the present day, edited by Gwyn Griffiths and Meic Stephens with an introduction by Professor Dafydd Johnston.
  • 2016: Four poems in Dodos and Dragons, (Aberystwyth University, 2016). Anthology of Mauritian and Welsh writing. Eds. Ameerah Arjanee, Mike Jenkins, Kavi Vadamootoo.
  • 2014: Three poems in Fesul Gair, (Gomer, 2014). Anthology for Welsh GCSE students.
  • 2013: Poems for R.S. A Centenary Celebration, (Hay Festival Press) 2013. Eleven writers respond to poems by R.S.Thomas to mark the centenary of his birth.
  • Press, 2006), p.69-83. Ed. George Jones.
  • 2004: "Cyfannu" and "Making Whole", Beyond the Difference, Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts, Eds. Alyce von Rothkirch, Daniel Williams, (Univ. of Wales Press, 2004), 204-205. Two poems in a festschrift for Prof. M. Wynn Thomas.
  • 2003: The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry, ed. John Rowlands and Menna Elfyn. Bloodaxe, 2003. Four poems and 11 translations in a major anthology of 20th Century Welsh-language poetry in English translation.