Professor M. Wynn Thomas

A: Critical Studies

1. Morgan Llwyd (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1984), pp.84. An English language introduction to Llwyd

2. The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987), pp.313 

3. Emyr Humphreys (Caernarfon: Gwasg Pantycelyn, Llên y Llenor Series, 1989), pp.96. A critical biography of the leading novelist of twentieth-century Wales.

4. Morgan Llwyd, ei gyfeillion a'i gyfnod (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1991), pp.208. [A study of the great 17th century Puritan/ Behmenist visionary, one of the classical writers of Welsh prose. Places him in the context of his turbulent times, and includes chapters on his correspondence with Peter Sterry, his relationship to the Quakers etc.] Awarded two prizes for scholarship.

5. Internal Difference: Literature in twentieth-century Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992), pp.214.

6. John Ormond (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997), pp.118

7. Corresponding Cultures: the two literatures of Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), pp.295.  

8. Kitchener Davies (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002) 

9. Transatlantic Connections: Whitman US, Whitman UK (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2005) 

10. In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010) 

B: Scholarly Editions

1. Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, Morgan Llwyd (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1988), pp.144. [Scholarly edition, including modernised text, introduction and notes, of one of the great classics of seventeenth-century Welsh religious prose.]

2. A Toy Epic, Emyr Humphreys (Bridgend: Seren Books, 1989), pp.200. [Edition includes Introduction, drawing on manuscript materials; a thirty-page Afterword; and textual notes.]   

C: Edited Collections

1. R.S.Thomas: y Cawr Awenydd (Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1990), pp.140. [Essays on R.S.Thomas's poetry.]

2. "The Page's Drift": R.S.Thomas at eighty (Bridgend: Seren Books, 1993), pp.232. [Includes essays by Helen Vendler and Ann Stevenson.] 

3. DiFfinio Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995), pp.216. [Essays on the connections between the Welsh- and the English-language literature of Wales.]

4. Gweld Sêr: Cymru a chanrif America (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001), pp.251. [Essays on the construction of the U.S. in Welsh-language culture, and on the U.S's perceptions of Wales.]

5. Emyr Humphreys, Conversations and Reflections (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002), pp.229.

6. (with Manon Rhys), James Kitchener Davies: detholiad o'I waith (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002), pp.263.

7. Welsh Writing in English (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), pp.345. This is the first authoritative critical history of the literature from the Middle Ages to the present. 

8. R.S.Thomas, Residues (Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2002), pp.70. 

D: Translations

1. Dail Glaswellt (Cardiff; Academi Gymreig/ Welsh Academy, 1995), 93pp. [Translations by M.W.Thomas of selection from Whitman's Leaves of Grass, with photographs, explanatory notes, and a 16 page introduction.]

E: Special Edition

1. Wrenching Times, Walt Whitman (Gregynog: Gregynog Press, 1991). [Fine Book publication of Drum-Taps, with introduction notes, and engravings by Gaylord Schanilec.] Winner -- Limited Editions Category, 1992 British Book Design and Production Exhibition.

F: Pamphlet

1. R.S.Thomas: Bardd Rhyfel/ R.S.Thomas: War Poet (Welsh Arts Council, 1996), 42pp.

1. "Strangers in a Strange Land: a reading of Noon Wine", in D. Bryfonski, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism in the United States, Vol.10, 1979.

2. "Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World: some metamorphoses of Salem witchcraft", in Sidney Anglo, ed., The Damned Art (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), 202-226.

3. "Glamorgan Literature in English", Chapter 16 of Prys Morgan, ed., Glamorgan County History, Vol.VI (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1989), 353-366.

4. "Morgan Llwyd y Piwritan", in Geraint H. Jenkins, ed., Cof Cenedl III (Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1988), 61-88.

5. Introduction, Afterword and Notes to A Toy Epic (see above), pp.7-14, 122-158.

6. Introductory chapter to R.S.Thomas: y Cawr Awenydd (see above), xiii-xxiv.

7. "Agweddau ar farddoniaeth y chwedegau", R.S.Thomas: Y Cawr Awenydd, 23-41.

8. "Y Duw Cudd", R.S.Thomas: Y Cawr Awenydd, 77-94.

9. "Emyr Humphreys: Mythic Realist", in J.J.Simon and Alain Sinner, eds., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Publications du Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg, 1991), 264-281.

10. "Pwys Llên a Phwysau Hanes", in John Rowlands, ed., Sglefrio ar Eiriau (Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1992), 11-21.

11. "Disgybl a'i Athro: Morgan Llwyd a Walter Cradoc", in J. Gwynfor Jones, ed., Agweddau ar dwf piwritaniaeth yng Nghymru yn yr ail ganrif ar bymtheg (Lampeter/New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), 111-127.

12. "'Keeping his pen clean': R.S.Thomas and Wales", in William V. Davis, ed., Miraculous Simplicity: essays on R.S.Thomas (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993), 61-79.

13. Introduction to "The Page's Drift" (see above), 9-21.

14. "Anglo-Welsh Poetry and the Welsh Language during the 1980s", in James A. Davies and Glyn Pursglove, eds., Writing Region and Nation (Swansea: special number of The Swansea Review, 1994), 511-521.

15. "Whitman and the Dreams of Labor", in Ed Folsom, ed., Walt Whitman: the Centennial Essays (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994), 133-152.

16. "Fratricide and Brotherly Love", in Ezra Greenspan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 27-44.

17. "Whitman and the British Isles", in Gay Wilson Allen and Ed Folsom, eds., Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995), 11-70.

18. "Shaman of Shifting Form: Tony Conran and the Welsh poetic tradition", in Nigel Jenkins, ed., Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Conran (Cardiff: Welsh Union of Writers, 1995), 78-102.

19. "Prints of Wales: contemporary Welsh poetry in English", in Hans-Werner Ludwig and Lothar Fietz, eds., Poetry in the British Isles: Non-Metropolitan Perspective (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995), 97-114.

20. "Rhagymadrodd" and "Symbyliad y Symbol: Euros Bowen a Vernon Watkins", in DiFfinio Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru (see above), 1-6 and 170-194.

21. "Seventeenth-Century Puritan Writers: Morgan Llwyd and Charles Edwards", in R. Geraint Gruffydd, A Guide to Welsh Literature: c.1530-1700 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997), 190-209.

22. "Gillian Clarke: Staying to Mind Things", in Menna Elfyn, ed., Trying the Line (Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1997), 44-68.

23. "Yr efrydd a'r almonwydden: Pennar Davies, y llenor o Lyn Cynon", in Hywel Teifi Edwards, ed., Cwm Cynon (Gwasg Gomer, 1997), 309-328.

24. "Place, Race and Gender in the Poetry of Gillian Clarke", in Katie Gramich and Andrew Hiscock, eds., Dangerous Diversity: cultural essays in Welsh Studies (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998), 1-19.

25. "Outside the House of Baal: the evolution of a major novel", in Sam Adams, ed., Seeing Wales Whole: essays on the literature of Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998), 121-143.

26. "Walt Whitman and Risorgimento Nationalism", in Winnifred M. Bogaards, ed., Literature of Region and Nation (Saint John, Canada: University of New Brunswick in Saint John), Vol.I, 345-367.

27. "Emyr Humphreys: regional novelist?" in K.D.M.Snell, ed., The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland: 1800-1900 (Cambrige University Press, 1998), 201-220.

28. Chapter Two and Chapter Four in R.Arwel Jones, ed., Dal Pen Rheswm (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), 55-99, 163-190. (Interviews with Emyr Humphreys.)

29. Introduction, and (with Tony Brown), "Colonial Wales and Fractured Language", in Tony Brown and Russell Stephens, eds., Nations and Relations (Cardiff: New Welsh Review, 2000), i-iv; 71-88.

30. "Caethiwed Branwen: agweddau ar farddoniaeth Alun Llywelyn- Williams", in Hywel Teifi Edwards, ed., Merthyr a Thaf (Llandysul: Gomer, 2001), 393-414.

31. "'Never seek to tell thy love': Rhys Davies's fiction", in Meic Stephens, ed., Decoding the Hare (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001), 260-282.

32. "Ewtopia: cyfandir dychymyg y Cymry", in Geraint H. Jenkins, ed., Cymru a'r Cymry 2000/ Wales and the Welsh 2000 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001), 99-118.

33. "Representatives and Revolutionaries: the new urban politics revisited", in Ed Folsom, ed., Whitman East and West: new contexts for reading Whitman (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2002), 145-158.

34. ‘Ynghylch Llenydda  a Beirniadaeth’, Alan (ed. Huw Meirion Edwards), Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, (2003), 122-158.

35. In M. Wynn Thomas, ed., Welsh Writing in English (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003): ‘Introduction’ (1-6); (With Tony Brown), ‘The Problems of Belonging’ (165-202); (With Jane Aaron), ‘“Pulling you through changes”: Welsh Writing in English before, between and after two Referenda’ (278-310).

36. ‘“Time’s Changeling”: Autobiography in The Echoes Return Slow,’ Damian Walford Davies, ed., Echoes to the Amen: essays after R.S.Thomas (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), 183-205.

37. ‘The Valleys,’ in Hywel Teifi Edwards, ed., Yn Gymysg Oll i Gyd (Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 2003), ix-xv.

38. (with Daniel Williams), ‘A sweet union?’: Dylan Thomas and post-war American poetry,’ Gilbert Bennett, Eryl Jenkins and Eurwen Price, eds., I Sang in My Chains (Swansea: 2003).

39. ‘Postscript: Reliving the Life’, in A Welsh CountrysideRevisited: A new social study of Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa (Welshpool: the Powysland Club, 2003), 165-170.

40.  Foreword, Christine Kinsey and Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, eds., Imaging the Imagination (Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2005), 7-11.

41.  (with S. Rhian Reynolds) ‘Introduction’, S. Rhian Reynolds, ed., Bibliography of Welsh Literature in English Translation (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), ix-xxviii.

42.  ‘”All lenient muscles tensed”: the poetry of Roland Mathias’, Robert Minhinnick (ed), Poetry Wales: Forty Years (Bridgend: Seren, 2005), 168-177

43.  ‘Whitman and Labor’, in D. Kummings, A Companion to Whitman (Blackwell’s Literature and Culture Series, 2006), 60-75.

1. Entries on Dylan Thomas et al. in Cassell's Dictionary of English Literature, 1970

2. Editor of Welsh Studies section, Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (CD-ROM: European Society for the Study of English), 1997

3. Entries on Emyr Humphreys, R.S.Thomas and Glyn Jones (latter two co-authored with Dr Tony Brown) for ABES.

4. Entries for The Companion to the Literature of Wales: Association for Welsh Writing in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press,  1986): D.T.Davies, J.A.Davies, Barbara Hardy, Emyr Humphreys, Gwyneth Lewis, John Pikoulis, The New Welsh Review, A Toy Epic, R.S.Thomas.

5. ‘John Ormond (1923–1990)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

6. Entries on New York, the British Isles, and Labor, in J.R.LeMaster and Donald R. Kummings, eds., Walt Whitman: an Encyclopaedia (New York and London: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1998).

7. Section on modern Wales in Peter France, ed., The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (OUP, 2000), 187-189.

8. Entries on R.S.Thomas and on Welsh Writing in English for the HarperCollins Encyclopaedia of Wales.

9. Entry on Welsh Writing in English for the Encarta CDRom of World Literature.

10. Entry on Welsh Writing in English and Welsh language literary culture, for the Encyclopaedia of Celtic Culture.

(with Dr Rhian Reynolds), Online Bibliography of Welsh Literature in English Translation (Bwlet.net),constructed with AHRB funding. 

1. "Y nofel a Duw ar drai ar orwel pell", Diwynyddiaeth XXI (1970), 3-15.
2. "'Strangers in a strange land': Katherine Anne Porter's Noon Wine", American Literature (May, 1975), 230-246.
3. Entries on Dylan Thomas et al. in Cassell's Dictionary of English Literature.
4. "A Study of Whitman's Late Poetry", in Walt Whitman Review 27:1 (March, 1981), 1-14.
5. "Whitman and the American Democratic Identity, before and during the Civil War", Journal of American Studies (April, 1981), 73-93.
6. "'A New World of Thought': Whitman's early reception in England", Walt Whitman Review 27:2 (June,1981), 744-748.
7. "Agweddau pellach ar Gymreigrwydd Morgan Llwyd", Y Traethodydd CXXXVIII (1982), 141-153.
8. "Whitman and the obligations of memory", Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 28:24 (Sept.,1982), 43-54.
9. "Whitman and Manhattan-New York", American Quarterly 34:4 (Fall,1982), 3-13.
10. "Song of Myself and possessive individualism", Delta (France), 16 (Mai,1983), 3-13.
11. "Ann Griffiths and Morgan Llwyd: a comparative study of two Welsh mystics", Studies in Mystical Literature 2:2 (June, 1983), 23-40.
12. "Whitman's achievements in the personal style in Calamus", Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1:3 (December, 1983), 36-47.
13. "Sisial y Sarff: ymryson oddi mewn i Forgan Llwyd", Y Traethodydd CXXXVIII (1983), 173-183.
14. "Whitman's Calamus and Emerson's Friendship", American Transcendental Quarterly 55 (Jan,1985), 49-61.
15. "Morgan Llwyd a William Erbery", Y Traethodydd, CXLIII (1987), 38-49.
16. "Walt Whitman's Welsh connection: Ernest Rhys", Anglo-Welsh Review 82 (1986), 77-85.
17. "Airs on a shoe-string", Planet 63, 5-8.
18. "Llyfr y Tri Aderyn a Beibl Morgan Llwyd", Y Traethodydd (Gorffennaf, 1988), 147-158.
19. "My People and the revenge of the novel", New Welsh Review (Summer, 1988), 17-22.
20. "Cymru: gwlad dychymyg y Sais", Taliesin 61, 90-102.
21. "Y Ddau Alun: Alun Lewis ac Alun Llywelyn Williams", Taliesin 64, 25-35.
22. "Raymond Williams' medium", Welsh Book News, Autumn, 1988, 5-6.
23. "Olrhain hanes Y Tri Llais", (i) Barn, Ionawr, 1989, 23-25; (ii) Barn, Chwefror, 1989, 23-25.
24. "Recent Whitman criticism", Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 6:2, 97-101.
25. "Yma o Hyd: delwedd o Gymru", Taliesin, Awst, 1989, 94-98.
26. "Raymond Williams a Llên Cymru", Efrydiau Athronyddol, 1989, 32-47.
27. "Emyr Humphreys's poetry", Poetry Wales 25 (September, 1989), 10-12.
28. "Karl's Darl: a biography of Faulkner", London Review of Books, Jan 11, 1990, 12-13.
29. "Tu Hwnt i'r Llen", Taliesin 70 (Gorffennaf, 1990), 54-61.
30. "Flintshire and the Regional Forecast", New Welsh Review (Summer, 1990), 10-15.
31. "The relentlessness of Emyr Humphreys", New Welsh Review 13 (Summer, 1991), 37-40.
32. "Iaith newid y byd", Golwg (Mawrth 12, 1992), 19-21.
33. "Morgan Llwyd a hanes y presennol yn y gorffennol", Y Cofiadur 57 (Mai, 1992), 4-15.
34. "From Walt to Waldo: Whitman's Welsh admirers", Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10;2 (Fall, 1992), 61-73.
35. "'Unfamiliar affections': Dylan Thomas and the novelists", Swansea Review 10 (Autumn, 1992), 45-53.
36. "R.S.Thomas at eighty", Book News From Wales (Summer, 1993), 5-7.
37. "Barddoniaith Saesneg yn y Gymru gyfoes", Taliesin, 195-6.
38. "Peter Pan a'r Pentecost", Barddas (Gorffennaf/Awst, 1993), 28-33.
39. "R.S.Thomas: bardd enbydrwydd bywyd", Barn (Mai, 1993), 40-41.
40. "Llenyddiaeth yn y famiaith", Golwg (Medi, 1993), 20-21.
41. "Revisiting the Castles of Wales: Tony Conran's recent poetry", Swansea Review 12 (1994), 21-26.
42. "Whitman's Tale of Two Cities", American Literary History 6:4 (Winter, 1994), 633-657.
43. "Hidden attachments: aspects of the two literatures of modern Wales", Welsh Writing in English: a Yearbook of Critical Essays 1 (1995), 145-163.
44. "Glyn Jones: 1905-1908", Barn 388 (Mai, 1995), 11.
45. "Amgylchu'r cylchgronau", Llais Llyfrau (Haf, 1995), 8-9.
46. "On translating Whitman's poetry into Welsh", Modern Poetry in Translation (New Series) 7 (Spring, 1995), 202-203.
47. "O na bai Walt yn Gymro", Barn (Hydref, 1995), 24-28.
48. Introduction to Ysbrydoliaeth R.S.Thomas (Cyfeillion Glyn y Weddw, 1995), 2-3.
49. "No Englishman: Wales's Henry Vaughan", Swansea Review 15 (1995), 1-19.
50. "R.S.Thomas: War Poet", in Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 2 (1996), 82-97.
51. "Wales and Postcolonialism": responses to Questionnaire, S.P.A.N. (Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) 41 (October, 1995), 56-60.
52. "Pennar Davies y Llenor", Y Traethodydd (Ebrill, 1997), 83-89.
53. "'All lenient muscles tensed': the poetry of Roland Mathias", Poetry Wales 33:3 (January, 1998), 21-26.
54. "'Never seek to tell thy love': Rhys Davies's Fiction", Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 4 (1998), 1-21.
55. "Emyr Humphreys: Y Sgrifennwr ar y Mur", Golwg 10: 32 (Ebrill 23, 1998), 18-19.
56. "'In Occidentem & Tenebras': putting Henry Vaughan on the map of Wales", Scintilla 2 (1998), 7-24.
57. "Weathering the Storm: Whitman and the Civil War", Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Autumn, 1998), 1-23.
58. "Irony in the soul: the religious poetry of R. Socrates Thomas", Agenda 36:2 (Winter, 1998), 49-69.
59. "'Keeping the Rhondda for Wales': the case of James Kitchener Davies", Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, New Series, 6 (2000), 119-134.
60. "He belongs to the English': Welsh Dylan and Welsh-language culture", Swansea Review 20 (2000), 122-134.
61. "R.S.Thomas: a great religious poet of the Calvinistic sublime", The New Welsh Review 51 (2000), 12-13.
62. "Introduction", in Tony Brown and J. Russell Stephens, eds., Nations and Relations (Cardiff: New Welsh Review, 2000), I-iv.
63. Obituary essay on R.S.Thomas, Barddas,Rhagfyr (2000), 18- 19.
64. "R.S.Thomas, 1913-2000", A470, 2-3.
    "Dylanwadau: Dylan Thomas a Llenorion Cymraeg", Taliesin 112 (Haf, 2001), 13-29.
65. ‘Cyfieithu: cynnyrch cyffindir iaith’, Taliesin 118 (Gwanwyn, 2003), 109-113, (with Tony Brown)
66. ‘Monica Lewinksy a fi, ’Y Llyfr yng Nghymru / Welsh Book Studies 5:5 (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2003), 24-43.
67. ‘Between here and now: the recent work of Christine Kinsey, ’The David Jones Journal 4:1-2 (Winter, 2002/ Spring 2003), 130-133.
68. “For Wales, see Landscape: Early R. S. Thomas and the English topographical tradition”, in Tony Brown, ed., Welsh Writing in English 10 (2005), 1-31.
69. (with John Turner) “’Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me”: Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature, 1919-1923,’ Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 21:2 (Fall, 2003), 41-64.
70. ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young [Brynteg] Man’, Planet 172 (August/September 2005), 14-22.
71. ‘Roemerstadt a Hladik’, Y Traethodydd (Ionawr, 2005), 28-33.
72. ‘Vernon Watkins: Taliesin of Gower’, PN Review (autumn, 2006), 50-54.
73. ‘Vernon Watkins: Taliesin Bro Gwyr’, Taliesin 129 (2006), 11-24.
74. Foreword to Emyr Humphreys, A Man’s Estate (Parthian, 2006), ix-xiii.
75. ‘”A Grand Harlequinade”: the Border Writing of Nigel Heseltine’, in Tony Brown, ed., Welsh Writing in English: a Yearbook of Critical Writing 11 (2007), 51-68.
76. ‘”Fidelities where beams together run”: Vernon Watkins and Henry Vaughan’, Scintilla 11, (2007),168-184.
77. Rhyfel y Gair: yr awdur a’r pregethwr yn llên Cymru, University of Wales Annual Lecture, National Eisteddfod, Flint, 2007.

1. Jeremy Hooker, A View from the Source, AWR 75 (1983), 90-92.
2. John Pikoulis, ed., Alun Lewis: A Miscellany, AWR 74 (1983), 92-96.
3. Glyn Tegai Hughes, William Williams Pantycelyn, The Tablet
4. Pennar Davies, E. Tegla Davies, AWR 77 (1984), 114-116.
5. Joseph Clancy, tr., Twentieth Century Welsh Poems, AWR 75 (1984), 88-95.
6. J. Kimberley Roberts, Ernest Rhys, Welsh History Review 12 (1984), 453-454.
7. Emyr Humphreys, Salt of the Earth, Welsh Book News (Summer, 1985), 7-8.
8. Jan Morris, The Matter of Wales, Welsh Book News (Spring, 1985), 10-11.
9. R.S.Thomas, Ingrowing Thoughts, Welsh Book News (Autumn, 1985), 8-9.
10. Susan Butler, ed., Common Ground, Welsh Book News (Winter, 1985), 8-9.
11. John Pikoulis, Alun Lewis: a Life, AWR 78 (1985), 90-94.
12. John Davies, The Visitor's Book, AWR (1985) 114-116.
13. Joseph Clancy, tr., Saunders Lewis's Plays, Planet 52 (1985), 116-118.
14. Meic Stephens, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Literatures of Wales, Welsh Book News (Spring, 1986), 105-106.
15. Emyr Humphreys, An Absolute Hero, Planet 55 (1986), 105-106.
16. Roland Mathias, A Ride Through the Wood, Welsh Book News (Summer, 1986), 8.
17. Gareth Alban Davies, Trigain, Barddas 13 (Medi, 1986), 15.
18. Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils, Welsh Book News (Spring, 1987), 7-8.
19. W.Tydeman, ed., The Welsh Connection, Welsh Book News (Summer, 1987), 11.
20. Jeremy Hooker, The Presence of the Past, Welsh Book News (Autumn, 1987), 10-11.
21. Wiliam Owen Roberts, Y Pla, Llais Llyfrau, (Gaeaf, 1987), 14-15.
22. Douglas Houston, With the Offal Eaters, AWR 87 (1987), 117-118.
23. Vernon Watkins, Collected Poems, Poetry Wales 22 (1987), 87-89.
24. Tony Conran., tr., Welsh Verse, Poetry Wales 22 (1987), 79-81.
25. P.J. Donavan, ed., Morgan Llwyd, Welsh History Review 13 (1987), 501-502.
26. Emyr Humphreys, Open Secrets, Welsh Book News (Summer, 1988), 5-6.
27. Alun Llywelyn-Williams, Ysgrifau, Golwg (Rhag., 1988).
28. Caradoc Evans, Nothing to Pay, New Welsh Review (Summer, 1989), 81-85.
29. The Gregynog Poets Series, Poetry Wales (Sept.,1989), 62-63.
30. Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman: the Political Poet, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Summer, 1989), 28-32.
31. Malcolm Kelsall, Byron's Politics, Swansea Review (Nov., 1988), 51-55.
32. Helen Fulton, Dafydd ap Gwilym in the European Context, Wales on Sunday (Dec.,1989).
33. Ioan Williams, Capel a Chomin, Planet 80, 105-106.
34. R.S.Thomas, Counterpoint, Golwg (Tachwedd 23, 1990), 22-23.
35. Cary Archard, ed., Poetry Wales, 25 Years, Llais Llyfrau (Spring, 1991), 10.
36. Wiliam Owen Roberts, Pestilence, New Welsh Review 13 (Summer, 1991), 46-47.
37. Graham Clarke, Walt Whitman: the poem as private history, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9:1 (Summer, 1991), 30-32.
38. Christopher Meredith, Griffri, Golwg (Chwefror, 1992).
39. Nigel Jenkins, John Tripp, Llen Cymru (Summer, 1993).
40. Joel Myerson, ed., Whitman in his time, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9:1 (Summer, 1991), 30-32.
41. Robin Llywelyn, Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn, Barn (Autumn, 1992).
42. John Rowlands, Ysgrifau ar y Nofel, Llais Llyfrau (Winter, 1992), 16-17.
43. R.S.Thomas, Mass for Hard Times, Golwg (Spring, 1993).
44. Sandra Anstey, Critical essays on R.S.Thomas, Planet 99 (June/July, 1993), 99.
45. Derec Llwyd Morgan, Ni cheir byth wit lle bo llawer o feirdd, Taliesin 81 (Summer, 1993), 91-95.
46. Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?, Acumen (October, 1993), 90-92.
47. Joseph Clancy, tr., Saunders Lewis: Poems and Cynthia Davies, tr., Euros Bowen: Poems, New Welsh Review 21 (Summer, 1993), 105-107.
48. Mihangel Morgan, Dirgel Ddyn; Endaf Jones, Mewn Gornel Fechan Fach, Golwg (Awst, 1993), 20-21.
49. 49. James Dougherty, Walt Whitman and the Citizen's Eye, Nineteenth-Century American Literature 46:3 (December, 1993), 373-376.
50. 50. "When Hollywood comes to Holyhead", Times Literary Supplement (March 25, 1994), 18.
51. 51. M.J.Van Buren, Waiting: the Religious Poetry of R.S.Thomas, Planet 106 (1994), 108.
52. 52. Six from Sinclair Stevens, Acumen 20 (1994), 84-86.
53. 53. Don Coles, Someone has stayed in Stockholm and Peter Porter, Millennial Fables, Acumen 21 (Jan.,1995), 93-95.
54. 54. Dafydd Johnston, ed., The Complete Poems of Idris Davies, Golwg 7:21 (Chwefror, 1995), 22-23.
55. 55. J.Graham Jones and Goronwy Wyn Owen, eds., Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd III, Taliesin 89 (Gwanwyn, 1995), 117-120.
56. 56. Ed Folsom, Whitman's Native Representations, American Literature 67:1 (March, 1995), 151-152.
57. 57. Douglas Houston, Hunters in the Snow and Carole Satyamurti, Striking Distance, Acumen 22 (May, 1995), 92-94.
58. 58. Belinda Humfrey, ed., Fire Green as Grass, New Welsh Review 29:8 (Summer, 1995), 92-94.
59. 59. Charles Simic, Frightening Toys, Acumen 23 (Sept.,1995), 85-88.
60. 60. Menna Elfyn, Eucalyptus and Gwyneth Lewis, Parables and Faxes, Barddas (Tachwedd, 1995), 22-24.
61. 61. R.S.Thomas, No Truce with the Furies, Poetry Wales 31:3 (Jan.,1996), 60-61.
62. 62. Harri Webb, Collected Poems, New Welsh Review 32 (April, 1996), 103-104.
63. 63. W.S.Merwin, The Vixen, Acumen 25 (May, 1996), 83-85.
64. 64. Sam Adams, Roland Mathias, Planet 117, 105-106.
65. 65. Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold, Planet 120, 104-106.
66. 66. Catherine Merriman, State of Desire, New Welsh Review 35, 90-91.
67. 67. Kate Clancy, Slattern, and Ifgenija Simonovic, Striking Root, Acumen 27 (June, 1997), 90-92.
68. 68. Kenneth M. Price, ed., Walt Whitman: the Contemporary Reviews, in Journal of American Studies (December, 1997), 440-441.
69. 69. Justin Wintle, Furious Interiors: Wales, R.S.Thomas and God, and Elaine Shepherd, R.S.Thomas: Conceding an Absence, in The New Welsh Review 36 (Spring, 1997), 82-84.
70. Gregory Eiselein, Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 14:4 (Spring, 1997), 186-189.
71. "Dread of Entrapment", review of Meic Stephens, ed., Collected Stories of Rhys Davies (2 vols.), in Planet 126, 101-103.
72. Jason Walford Davies, tr., R.S.Thomas, Autobiographies, Taliesin 99 (Hydref, 1997), 116-118.
73. Tony Conran, Frontiers of Anglo-Welsh Poetry, The New Welsh Review 38 (Autumn, 1997), 86-88.
74. Gerwyn Wiliams, Tir Neb, Welsh History Review 19:2 (December, 1998), 367-368.
75. "Emyr Humphreys: Y Sgrifennwr ar y Mur", Golwg 10:32 (Ebrill 23, 1998), 18-19/
76. Gillian Poems, Collected Poems, Book News from Wales (Summer, 1998), 12-13.
77. Jim Perrin, Spirits of Place and Visions of Snowdonia, New Welsh Review 42 (Summer, 1998), 20-23.
78. Emyr Humphreys, Collected Poems, New Welsh Review 44 (Spring, 1999), 82-84.
79. Sheri Ceniza, Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 16: 2 (Fall, 1998), 96-99.
80. Glyn Jones, Collected Short Stories, Taliesin 107 (Hydref, 1999), 117-118.
81. J. Loving, Walt Whitman: the Song of Himself, in Journal of America Studies 34 (2000), 179-180
82. P.H.Jones and E.Rees, eds., A Nation and its Books: a History of the Book in Wales, in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 94 (2000), 299-301.
83. John Rowlands, ed., Y Sêr yn eu Graddau, Taliesin 111 (Gwanwyn, 2001), 143-145.
84. Menna Elfyn, Cusan Dyn Dall/ Blind Man's Kiss, New Welsh Review 53 (2001), 99-118.
85. Angharad Price, Robin Llywelyn, Gwales (Welsh Books Council website, summer, 2001).
86. Gwenallt, Cerddi Cyflawn, New Welsh Review 56 (Spring, 2002), 83-88.
87. ‘Cloriannu’r Cyfrinydd,’ review of Goronwy Wyn Owen, Rhwng Calfin a Böhme (University of Wales Press),  Taliesin 119 (Haf, 2003), 161-164.
88. Review of Mark Maslan, Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality and Popular Authority, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Winter/ Spring, 2003), 177-179.

Conversations I: interview with Helen Vendler, The Swansea Review 16 (1996), 1-8.

Conversations 2: interview with Jorie Graham, The Swansea Review 16 (1996), 8-15.

Conversations I: interview with Les Murray, The Swansea Review 17, 1-10.

Conversations 2: interview with Denise Levertov, The Swansea Review 17, 11-15.

"Rita Dove talks to M. Wynn Thomas," The Swansea Review 19, 158-163.

1. Co-editor (with Belinda Humfrey) of the Edited Texts series for the Universities of Wales Association for the Study of Welsh Writing in English.
2. Co-editor (with Ceri Davies) of Cyfres Cyfieithu Rhyddiaith (the series of translations of classic international fiction into Welsh) for Yr Academi Gymreig (The Welsh Academy).

1. Associate Editor, Welsh Writing in English: a Yearbook of Critical Studies.
2. Editorial Board, The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
3. Advisory Board, Scintilla (The publication of the Henry Vaughan Society)
4. Editorial Board, Comparative Literature (Cambridge U.P.)

Literary Executor, estate of R.S.Thomas, 2000-