GWILYM WILLIAMS  

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R S Thomas is it?

Famous poet?

We're chapel here...

Well my husband is.

'nglish he is, that man Thomas;

Lived in Cardiff I believe; once

Painted a church as black as night.

I can't say I liked him very much;

Mind you, I haven't actually read him,

But I've heard things you see.

Welsh, you say? And lived here?

We're chapel here...

No need for windows in a chapel,

The buggers can't read, he used to say.

And him a priest.

Nominated?

For the Nobel Prize?

I suppose, you could ask

in the village post office -

She's... 'nglish.