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Want something dark and haunting? Try "The Owl Service" by Alan Garner, a chilling modern retelling of an ancient Welsh myth. The past refuses to stay buried. #BookWormSat 🎨Quintin Gleim

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#BookSky #BookWormSat 💙📚 #Books 🖋️📚 #Wales John Cowper Powys

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The Welsh countryside hides old legends beneath its rolling hills. "West" by Carys Davies captures that same sense of longing and myth in a beautifully crafted novel. #BookWormSat 🎨Harry Robertson

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My People is a collection of short stories by Caradoc Evans, first published in 1915 by Andrew Melrose and highly controversial at the time. It is subtitled Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, and has been described as the first work of modern Anglo-Welsh literature. #BookWormSat 🧵

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"A process in the weather of the world Turns ghost to ghost; each mothered child Sits in their double shade. A process blows the moon into the sun, Pulls down the shabby curtains of the skin; And the heart gives up its dead." —A Process in the Weather of the Heart, Dylan Thomas #BookWormSat

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"Never and never, my girl riding far and near... Fear or believe that the wolf in a sheepwhite hood Loping and bleating roughly and blithely shall leap... To eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood." —In Country Sleep, Dylan Thomas #BookWormSat

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"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever." —The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, Dylan Thomas #BookWormSat

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Wales is a land of poets, and no name looms larger than Dafydd ap Gwilym. Writing in the 14th century, his verses about love, nature, and mischief still feel fresh today. #BookWormSat

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#BookWormSat "We are not wholly bad or good Who live our lives under Milk Wood ..." Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood

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I visited #Wales and thought it a mysterious place, with people speaking an ancient language. Relatives traveling in Wales were lured into the woods by a cat, probably to the site of arcane rituals. To me, Welsh occult writer #ArthurMachen best represents the allure of his native land. #BookWormSat

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"The cloud? Oh when it hangs ragged like that we call it the breath of the Brenin Llwyd. The Grey King. He is supposed to live up there on the high land. It's just one of the old stories." -Susan Cooper, The Grey King #BookWormSat #TheDarkIsRising

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Wales is full of ghost stories, and its abandoned mines and misty hills make the perfect setting. The Man in Black by Gerald Verner delivers classic chills with a Welsh backdrop. #BookWormSat 🎨Richard Gilbert

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Rhys Lewis is a novel by Daniel Owen, written in the Welsh language and published in 1885. Its full title is Hunangofiant Rhys Lewis, Gweinidog Bethel ("The autobiography of Rhys Lewis, minister of Bethel").It is agreed to be the first significant novel written in the Welsh language #BookWormSat 🧵

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Today's #BookWormSat theme is 'The Literature of #Wales' in celebration of #StDavidsDay! How about this absolute stunner by the late great #DylanThomas whose work so often has the power to grab you by the throat and steal the breath from your lungs... 🖤

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#BookWormSat "Perhaps the strangest feature in a woman's character is the way she can fall in love with another woman & be true to that love ... there's an inconsistency in that falling in love - it is weak & foolish but the steadfastness of the affection is strong." Amy Dillwyn

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"My birthday began with the water birds And the birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses. And I rose in rainy autumn, And walked abroad in a shower of all my days." - Dylan Thomas, "A Poem in October" #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

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‘And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars Flying with the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark.’ ~ Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas for #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1836.

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‘All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass.’ ~ Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas for #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1909.

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Can’t talk about Welsh literature without mentioning RS Thomas, the poet who captured the soul of rural Wales—its beauty, struggles, and silences. His words stay with you. #BookWormSat

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Gwerful Mechain (1460-1500) much of her poetry was suppressed by male Welsh scholars because it contained erotic elements such as the loosely translated “poem to the vagina” this poem In The Snowfall is my favorite of hers #BookWormSat

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#BookWormSat Celebrating Welsh writer Catharine Jan Morris, born James Humphrey Morris. "To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music." ~

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#BookWormSat #StDavid’sDay #DylanThomas 💛

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#BookSky #BookWormSat 💙📚 #Books #WomenWriting 💡📚 #Wales Wales: The First Place by Jan Morris with Paul Wakefield (Photographer) and Twm Morys (Translator) -- A Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris -- The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris

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“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.” ― Alan Garner, The Owl Service #BookSky #BookWormSat 💙📚 #Books 🖋️📚 #Wales

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OWAIN GLYNDŴR At my nativity the heaven was full of fiery shapes and the foundation of the earth shak’d like a coward. HOTSPUR Why, so it would have done at the same season if your mother’s cat had but kitten’d, though yourself had never been born. Shakespeare, HENRY IV, 3.1 #BookWormSat #Wales

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Allen Raine, the pen name of Anne Adaliza Puddicombe, was one of the best-selling authors of the late Victorian/early Edwardian age. Wales features largely in her romantic fiction, with titles like A Welsh Singer (1896) and A Welsh Witch (1902). #BookSky #BookWormSat 💙📚 #WomenWriting #Wales

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The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff is based on Y Gododdin. #BookSky #BookWormSat 💙📚 #Books #WomenWriting #Wales #ChildrensBooks #Retellings

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When lords came from Din Eidin, A host of picked men from each region, In strife with the English, splendid army… —Y GODODDIN, one of the oldest literary works from Scotland, is written in Old Welsh. The poet Aneirin may have been born in Dumbarton #BookWormSat www.maryjones.us/ctexts/a01b....

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He is at Milford-Haven. Read, and tell me How far ’tis thither. … How far it is To this same blessed Milford. And by th’ way Tell me how Wales was made so happy as T’ inherit such a haven. Shakespeare, CYMBELINE, 3.2 #BookWormSat #MilfordHaven #Wales #Cymru #Cymbeline #Cynfelyn #Innogen #Imogen

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#500GreatBooksByWomen #BookSky #BookWormSat 💙📚 #Books #WomenWriting 🖋️📚 #Wales A Small Country by Siân James pub. 1979 Rural Wales before World War I

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FLUELLEN I do believe your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Davy’s day. KING HENRY V I wear it for a memorable honor; For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman. Shakespeare, KING HENRY V, 4.7 #BookWormSat #Wales #Cymru #StDavidsDay #Leeks #HenryV

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Dylan Thomas captured the rhythm of Welsh life in Under Milk Wood, a lyrical dive into a small town’s dreams and secrets. A must-read for lovers of poetic prose. #BookWormSat Photo: Seth Whales

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‘A fine gull on the tideflow, All white with moon or snow, Your beauty’s immaculate, Shard like the sun, brine’s gauntlet. Buoyant you’re on the deep flood, A proud swift bird of fishfood.’ ~ Yr Wylan (The Seagull), Dafydd ap Gwilym. #BookWormSat #StDavidsDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ Wilhelm Kuhnert, 1904.

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Every morning when I wake, Dear Lord, a little prayer I make, O please do keep Thy lovely eye On all poor creatures born to die And every evening at sundown I ask a blessing on the town, For whether we last the night or no I’m sure is always touch-and-go. Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas #BookwormSat

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‘From far east to west, across the vastness of earth The sun moves with the dazzle of a girl Beautifully dressed in the body of day. It shepherds the sky from horizon to horizon.’ ~ Dafydd ap Gwilym and @racheldeering.bsky.social here for #BookWormSat #StDavidsDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ The Sun, Edvard Munch, 1911.

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‘So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden…And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd.’ ~ The Mabinogion. #BookWormSat #StDavidsDay 🖼️ Rachel Blackwell

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'Cats — by day the most docile of God's creatures, everyone of them in the night enlisting under the devil's banner — took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.' -W. H. Davies 🎨Leticia Zamora #BookWormSat

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“But you are known as a great animal lover! Mr. Hughes” cried Jones.“It's budgerigars I keep Mr. Jones, not elephants!” ~ Ivor The Engine and The Elephant (1979), Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin. #BookWormSat #BBC

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"'Isn't a shame we don't understand a bit of English, Ann Ifans?' 'I don't know, indeed; you understand quite enough in this old world as it is. Who knows how much pain you manage to avoid by not knowing English.'" Kate Roberts, Feet in Chains #BookWormSat

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Like the old songs they left behind, We hung our harps in the willows again. Ballads of boys blow on the wind, Their blood is mingled with the rain. War / Rhyfel / Hedd Wyn Translation Gillian Clarke ©️Aaron Mccoy #BookWormSat

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The Mabinogion is Wales’ great literary treasure, a collection of ancient tales filled with magic, love, betrayal, and transformation. If you’ve never read it, you’re missing out. #BookWormSat

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'I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.' ~Dylan Thomas 🎨Christian Schloe #BookWormSat

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"In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn..." Fern Hill Dylan Thomas #BookWormSat

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“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ✍️Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night #BookWormSat

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🌊🐦‍⬛🌊"The sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea." 📖Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood. #StDavidsDay #BookWormSat

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“In assembly, Mr Checker announced that these are the best years of our lives. He said that most of our defining memories will be formed during school.” ~ Submarine (2008), Joe Dunthorne. #BookWormSat #Film [📷Craig Roberts as Oliver Tate, in the 2010 film version of the book.]

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“Is he dead? For if he is, then I am dead, and we are dead, and all of sense a mockery. How green was my Valley, then, and the Valley of them that have gone.” ~ How Green Was My Valley (1939). Richard Llewellyn. #BookWormSat #Oscars #Film

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The Swan Keeper of the oval lake ... You gleam on rippling water In a crystal-coloured shirt, A doublet of a thousand lillies. You wear a jacket of white roses, Woodbine flowers for a gown. You are the moon among birds, White-cloaked. Anon. Medieval Welsh Lyrics tr. Clancy #StDavidsDay #BookWormSat

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The myths of Wales are stitched into its landscapes. From the haunting shores of Llyn y Fan Fach to the towering ruins of Harlech Castle, every place tells a story. #BookWormSat Photos: Markus Trienke

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My attic study is full of books, around a thousand of them, of which I might have read a half, the others lie in wait; some were bought years ago and are destined to remain unread, others were consumed as soon as I brought them home. Richard Gwyn, The Vagabond's Breakfast #BookWormSat

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