R. S. Thomas; M. Wynn Thomas [editor] — Residues

Northumberland, Bloodaxe Books, 2002. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this posthumous poetry collection from Welsh writer Ronald Stuart Thomas. First edition. A posthumously published collection of poetry from Ronald Stuart Thomas, who published as R. S. Thomas, a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. Being a collection of paired down works exploring the metaphysical questions and contradictions of life, with titles such as: Watching, Planetary, Via Crucis, Two Views of Olympos, Poised Stone, and more. Edited by M. Wynn Thomas, a Welsh Professor of English at Swansea University who holds the Emyr Humphreys Chair of Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University. His expertise is in American poetry and modern Welsh literature. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. The odd ink mark to the contents page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.