Writing Wales in English: Fight and Flight - Essays on Ron Berry — Essays on Ron Berry

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Roedd Ron Berry (1920-97) yn un o lenorion mwyaf llachar a chwerylgar Cymru. Yn radicalydd ac yn ddaearol, bu'n löwr, saer, llafurwr, chwaraewr pêl-droed ac yn amgylcheddwr anuniongred. Cyhoeddir y casgliad amserol hwn o draethodau amdano i ddathlu canmlwyddiant ei eni.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Ron Berry (1920-97) was one of the most brilliant and cantankerous of Welsh writers. Radical and earthy, he was a collier, carpenter, navvy, footballer, and unorthodox environmentalist. This volume - the first collection of essays on Berry - is a timely response to his forthcoming centenary.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of abbreviations Ways Out: Ways In: Ways Back An Introduction Barbara Prys-Williams, History is what you live: Ron Berry's rumination on his conflicted life and times Tony Brown, A Man’s World: The Short Fiction of Ron Berry John Perrott Jenkins, Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms in So Long, Hector Bebb (1970) Daryl Leeworthy, The Full-Time Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry’s south-Walian Imagination Georgia Burdett, ‘The Inadequates’: Ron Berry and Disability Sarah Morse, ‘Green always comes back’: Ron Berry’s ecocentric writing Tomos Owen, ‘Land of my Feathers’: Ron Berry and Niall Griffiths on the Wing John Pikoulis, ‘Word-of-mouth cultures cease in cemeteries’ Afterword Bibliography

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Georgia Burdett is an ABA therapist and tutor for children with autism, and an independent scholar. Sarah Morse is Senior Executive Officer at the Learned Society of Wales, and an independent scholar.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

• There is no published collected criticism on Ron Berry. This is a unique selling point. • Berry did not receive the critical acclaim he deserved in his lifetime. This is the first attempt to address this apparent neglect. • Berry’s work is hugely relevant to the study of modern Wales, as it straddles the industrial and post-industrial period. • His environmental writings and concerns were so progressive that they were perhaps wasted upon his original readership.