late 1950s the verses were adapted into a folk song by Pete Seeger and became a folk rock standard. The song, entitled "The Bells of Rhymney", has been covered by many others since. More recently some of the other stanzas from Davies' Gwalia Deserta have also been set to music by Welsh performer Max Boyce as the song "When We Walked to Merthyr Tydfil in the Moonlight Long Ago". In February 2010 Davies' work was mentioned, by Conservative MP David Davies and Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams, in a Parliamentary debate concerning health-care in Wales. The 2017 album Every Valley, by London-based alternative band Public Service Broadcasting, includes a version of Gwalia Deserta XXXVI set to music and re-titled Turn No More. It is sung by Manic Street Preachers' singer James Dean Bradfield. List of works In Davies' own lifetime: Gwalia Deserta (literally Wasteland of Wales) (1938) Dent The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926 (1943) Faber and Faber Tonypandy and other poems (1945) Faber and Faber Selected Poems (1953) Faber and Faber Published posthumously: Collected Poems (1972) Gomer Press Complete Poems (1994) ed. Dafydd Johnston, University of Wales Press A Carol for the Coalfield and other poems (2002) Gwasg Carreg Gwalch See also Anglo-Welsh poetry References External links The poem and song The Bells of Rhymney Dictionary of Welsh Biography on Idris Davies BBC Wales feature on "The Bells of Rhymney" . Pens which belonged to the poet Idris Davies at education.gtj.org 1905 births 1953 deaths Anglo-Welsh poets Alumni of the University of Nottingham People from Rhymney Welsh miners 20th-century Welsh poets Welsh-speaking writers Proletarian literature Deaths from cancer in Wales