by R. S. Thomas
You failed me, farmer, I was afraid you would (i)
You go up the long track (i)
You have no name (i)
You never asked what he was like (i)
You never heard of Kant, did you, Prytherch? (i)
You remember Davies? He died, you know (i)
You served me well, Prytherch (i)
Young I offered an old man (i)
Your move I would have (i)
R.S. Thomas was born in 1913. He won the Heinemann Award in 1955, the Queen’s Gold Medal for poetry in 1964 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1978. He has received three Welsh Arts Council Literature Awards. His autobiography, Neb, was published in Welsh in 1995. He died in 2000.
Copyright
A PHOENIX EBOOK
First published in Great Britain in 1993 by J.M. Dent.
First published in ebook in 2011 by Phoenix.
Copyright © R.S. Thomas 1993
The moral right of R.S. Thomas to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge the use of poems from Later Poems (Macmillan London Ltd, 1983) Experimenting with an Amen (Macmillan London Ltd, 1986) and Counterpoint (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1990).
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978 1 7802 2308 7
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