See How They Run (18 page)

This is a ground-breaking series and I congratulate Seren on their foresight; I’m surprised that the Welsh-language publishers didn’t do it a long time ago. The Triads would be an obvious consideration.

And so finally I come to the Anglo-Welsh tradition, which I suspect is coming to an end, or at least
entering a different phase. Maybe this series is a fitting epitaph to a century of English writing by
people with deep roots in the Welsh tradition. How many people will write in both languages in future?
We have only a handful now, and as our written
culture splits quite clearly into Welsh writing and English writing in Wales, a new future beckons.

I hope you enjoy my book.

Lloyd Jones

Acknowledgements

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Poetry Wales Press Ltd

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© Lloyd Jones 2012

ISBN 9781854116086

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Lloyd Jones
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Cover design by Mathew Bevan

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The publisher acknowledges the financial support of the Welsh Books Council.