2019

SM8938 : Memorial stone to Dewi Emrys a Welsh poet, at Pwll Deri, Pembs

taken 5 years ago, near to Tresinwen, Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro, Wales

Memorial stone to Dewi Emrys a Welsh poet, at Pwll Deri, Pembs
Memorial stone to Dewi Emrys a Welsh poet, at Pwll Deri, Pembs
Dewi Emrys (Born David Emrys James in 1881) was a Welsh poet who was also a Welsh journalist, a church minister (like his father before him) but who also enlisted in the army fighting in the Great War in 1917, surviving it to win the crown at the 1926 National Eisteddfod and the Chair in 1929, the first of four such wins for his poetry. But the war and other factors seem to have led him to abandon the ministry and his wife and two sons and become an itinerant poet-tramp (like WH Davies) only to become a journalist again in 1936, by which time he had fathered a child with a female poet in 1930. He lived out his final years with his daughter in Cardiganshire, preaching and writing but not returning to the ministry. He died in 1952.

What a life.

His poetry is amazing.

Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry here: LinkExternal link

Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]   © Copyright Jeremy Bolwell and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Pembs [19] · Dewi Emrys [5] ·
1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger(TM) Map © Crown Copyright
+
1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger(TM) Map © Crown Copyright
TIP: Click the map for more Large scale mapping
Grid Square
SM8938, 145 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Jeremy Bolwell   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 31 August, 2019   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SM 8937 3851 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:0.2976N 5:4.2097W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SM 8937 3851
View Direction
WEST (about 270 degrees)
Clickable map
+
NW N NE
W Go E
SW S SE
Image Type (about): geograph 
This page has been viewed about 81 times
You are not logged in login | register