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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: Link