I’m delighted to have a poem in the most recent edition of Wales’ premier poetry magazine, Poetry Wales.
Dylan Eil Ton is about a character in the Mabinogi who appears only briefly and then runs away from his own story. As most of us would like to, probably, at some time!
I am interested in the lost stories behind many of these old narratives, the whole legends that have been forgotten over the centuries, so sometimes I use them as springboards for speculations or ideas. In The Red Gloves and Other Stories I use the character of Sgilti Lightfoot in the same way. They are only an enigmatic name now, but once maybe they had whole mythologies behind them, and their mystery adds to the attraction of the old tales.