Real Series: Real Cambridge

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Caergrawnt: canolfan academaidd hynafol a chymuned ordirol, canolfan wyddoniaeth a thechnoleg a chanolfan feddyliol grefyddol a gwleidyddol ryddfrydol, cartref i amgueddfeydd mawrion a bythynnod gwledig. Gyda mynwent ryfel Americanaidd, gŵyl werin, caer o'r oes haearn, gwasanaeth gosber a Pink Floyd, dyma le cwbl unigryw, fel y canfu'r cyn-fyfyriwr Grahame Davies.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Cambridge, ancient academic centre and fenland community, science/tech centre and centre of radical religious and political thinking, home to grand museums and agricultural cottages. With an American war cemetery, folk festival, iron age fort, evensong and Pink Floyd, it is a place alone as former student Grahame Davies finds on his return.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Grahame Davies is a Welsh poet, author and lyricist, who has won numerous prizes, including the Wales Book of the Year Award. He is the author of 17 books in Welsh and English, including: 'The Chosen People', a study of the relationship of the Welsh and Jewish peoples; 'The Dragon and the Crescent', a study of Wales and Islam; a novel, 'Everything Must Change', about the French philosopher Simone Weil, and the popular work of psychogeography, 'Real Wrexham'. A native of Coedpoeth near Wrexham, now based in Cardiff and London, he has a degree in English from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and a PhD from Cardiff University. He was awarded an honorary D.Litt from Anglia Ruskin University, and is a Fellow and Governor of Goodenough College, London. He travels internationally as a reader and lecturer, carries out numerous high-profile poetry commissions, and collaborates extensively with musical and visual artists. His poetry has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications such as: The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Poetry London, the Literary Review in America, Orbis (#136 Spring 2006), Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English, Absinthe (Michigan, USA, 2007), Kalliope (Germany, 2009), Poetry Review, and Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series Villanelles (2012).