"This is volume two of my autobiography, and describes the years 1968 to 1986. The first volume (1950 - 1968) was published with Authors Online and its information is on the home page of www.aias.us. Both volumes are very popular open source off www.aias.us, and are available in the blue box above the coat of arms on the home page of www.aias.us. This volume describes my undergraduate and graduate days at University College of Wales Aberystwyth, and my post doctoral days at Oxford, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea up to the point where I left in October 1986 to become a visiting full professor...
"This is volume two of my autobiography, and describes the years 1968 to 1986. The first volume (1950 - 1968) was published with Authors Online and it...
I first started writing poetry in my early twenties, when I was a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford with poems about the declining coal mining industry which I remembered from childhood. I read avidly in both languages from an early age, the supremely great prose of the William Morgan Bible in Welsh, many books in Welsh and English, poetry and prose. The Welsh speaking Baptist culture was all around me in this house because my grandfather, Thomas Elim Jones, a coal miner and Prif Ddiacon (Head Deacon), was pious, highly literate, and also a musician, composer, conductor and brass band leader....
I first started writing poetry in my early twenties, when I was a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford with poems about the declining coal mining industry...
