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May 7, 2008
Ted Simons
school District Mismanagement
Governor Janet Napolitano recently signed a bill allowing the state to take over an entire school district for what the bill terms �systemic educational mismanagement.� The Roosevelt Elementary District in Phoenix could be the first district to which the law is applied. A representative of the Roosevelt District and a legislator who sponsored the bill join us to discuss the issue.
Jim Small - Reporter, Arizona Capitol Times
Cloves Campbell Jr. - Democratic State Representative
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>>>Ted Simons:
Tonight on "Horizon" we'll take a look at a new law that allows the state to take control of an entire school district for educational mismanagement. Plus a mid-week legislative update on the budget and other news from the state capitol. It's coming up next on "Horizon." Hello and welcome to "Horizon." I'm Ted Simons. After finishing their work today, state lawmakers adjourned until Monday. Here to tell us why is Jim Small, a reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times. What happened to Thursday, Jim?
>>Jim Small:
There will not be any work Thursday this week. Which I think is a welcome relief to lawmakers and reporters down there who will have a less hectic day. Many lawmakers said I have to go down there and have meetings and more or less have a regular day without legislative work. Basically what happened was republicans and house and senate have met for three weeks to talk about the budget, trying to figure out what to do for the upcoming fiscal year. They have solved the problem for the current year. They want to focus their entire day tomorrow on just those talks. They don't want to be worried to be pulled out on meetings to go the floor. They will be there all day tomorrow bright and early and met all afternoon after they got on the floor. If they don't get the work done tomorrow, I've been told they will be there all day Friday a well. The idea is to figure out what the republican budget proposal will look like for the next fiscal year and be ready to go Monday.
>>Ted Simons:
This is a supposed gang of 15 republican lawmakers meeting in the windowless room?
>>Jim Small:
Yeah, I think it's nine members from the house and seven members from the senate and members from the leadership and appropriations committee and leadership that wanted to be involved and they have gotten a lot of work done. I've talked to the house majority leader. He's encouraged. He thinks in the end it will speed it up and get a lot of groundwork out of the way as far as finding out what the republicans in the legislature want in a budget package.
>>Ted Simons:
Is there any indication that these meetings are indeed making a difference?
>>Jim Small:
Not yet because they haven't done anything publicly. Hopefully we will find out Monday and some time next week what the end result of this is. We'll see whether or not it leads into the negotiating table with Governor Napolitano and the Democrats.
>>Ted Simons:
Something else of interest here. Russell Pearce, Representative Russell Pearce holding a press conference expressing disappointment with speaker Weirs over his bill giving more leeway to local law enforcement. What's that all about?
>>Jim Small:
What it is he has an item that would be put on the ballot in the fall that says the police departments in Arizona can't have a policy saying they won't enforce immigration or do anything when encountering illegal immigrants. He says it's not a law that would make police departments actively enforce immigration laws, it just says they can't say we are going to stick our heads in the sand and not do anything about it. What happens is this is something that happens every two years. Every year before a fall election, lawmakers figure out which item they want to refer to the ballot. They will get a number passed through to a certain point where there's one more step to go, one more vote to go. The last week of the session leadership and interested parties will get together and meet and figure out which bills will go forward and which will be put on the ballot in the fall and I assume that will happen this year. Representative Russell Pearce is trying to get it moved and make sure it's on the ballot because he's chairing the campaign committee for a ballot initiative that's out there gathering signatures that would do the same thing right now.
>>Ted Simons:
The longer the session lasts, the later they address this, the more difficult it is for him to get the signatures.
>>Jim Small:
Right, the less certain it is for him. They've been collecting signatures for more than a year and pounding the pavement for this one and employer sanctions laws that he and Don Goldwater is working on.
>>Ted Simons:
There's nothing out of the ordinary here? He's expressing disappointment because he wants the speaker to move and now?
>>Jim Small:
Yeah. It didn't seem from my perspective and the perspective of the Press Corp that there's not a lot going on out of the ordinary. There's nothing behind closed doors and Representative Russell Pearce said moving forward and making a public stand.
>>Ted Simons:
Sounds like a public transportation initiative moving forward. Paperwork filed. I know the governor likes this. The business interests like this. Who doesn't like this?
>>Jim Small:
A lot of people who didn't like the transportation plan the Maricopa county voters passed including light-rail and bike paths and bus programs. The main criticism is a lot of money $42 billion in total one cent sales tax for the state but not all the money goes to the freeways. A large contention of people feel freeways are the end all be all in solving the transportation problems. Freeways and toll roads. This plan includes both freeways and toll roads of finding a public-private partnership and rail and light speed and high-speed commuter rail and other pedestrian-bike friendly things. Those are the issues. Things that aren't actually pavement on the ground kind of gets the ire of a number of the people.
>>Ted Simons:
Senator Gould I saw a quote saying the rail line from Phoenix to Tucson was elitists because those who can afford gas will drive because the rest of us are taking the train.
>>Jim Small:
Senator Gould is never short on opinions. I imagine that's not the last we will hear from him and other critics of this plan.
>>Ted Simons:
Good to see you again.
>>Jim Small:
Thank you for having me.
>>>Ted Simons:
Just over a week ago Governor Napolitano signed a bill allowing the state board of education to take control of a school district for academic mismanagement. The Roosevelt Elementary District in South Phoenix fits the bill's profile. In a moment, I'll speak with a representative of the Roosevelt District and a sponsor of the bill. But first David Majure shows us why Roosevelt is a target for the new district takeover law.
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>>David Majure:
These third graders attend Sunland Elementary School in South Phoenix. It's one of 21 in the Roosevelt school district and they are meeting the Arizona's academic standards and scored well enough from the aims test to eastern their school a performing label. Sunland isn't the district's only performing school. A total of 10 schools are rated performing or better. But the Roosevelt district isn't known for good schools but earned a reputation where kids are failing academically and a district that could find itself under state control now that the governor signed house bill 2711 authorizing the state board of education to take control of the school districts for systemic education mismanagement. That can only happen to half of which is labeled underperforming with one school labeled as failing.
The Roosevelt District qualifies. Perscy L. Julian is one of seven schools in the Roosevelt district labeled as underperforming. When it has underperformance for three years, it becomes a failing school. The Roosevelt District that is four of those for a grand total of 11 of 21 schools labeled as underperforming or failing. Even governing board president Norma Munoz doesn't argue the board's history of poor academic performance.
>>Norma Munoz:
No. I wouldn't argue too much. I would say I guess what people are thinking that the school is not doing enough for the students, that the administration is failing them somehow. There's more to it.
>>David Majure:
Munoz says the district is improving. Last year including Sunland met the adequate yearly progress up from six the year before.
>>Norma Munoz:
The state should not take this district over because we are on an upward move. We are showing strong, strong indications of improvement. We have made huge strides. Last year our third graders out-tested a lot of our surrounding schools. We've implemented a whole extra hour of reading for the third graders at no cost to the district. We have made many changes that are showing progress.
>>David Majure:
That progress she says comes despite the challenge of low-income district with a population of English learner's. But on past appearances of Horizon, State Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne says it's not about the types of students the districts have.
>>Tom Horne:
I showed them it's not the demographics. There's other districts that have poor kids but they are doing well because they have good leadership in the district.
>>David Majure:
Horne continues to blame the district's academic troubles squarely on the governing board.
>>Norma Munoz:
Yes, he seems to blame it mostly on the board. And he's partly right in some ways. I think for many years the board was very political. And board members perhaps had other agendas. But that is not the case today.
>>David Majure:
However just last week, Horne appeared on "Horizon" and blamed the board again.
>>Tom Horne:
The districts that do well have school boards that function well. In the Roosevelt District as example you had a toxic political atmosphere. They were poor neighborhood and people ran for the board and got jobs for friends. They were not choosing structural leaders but getting the jobs for the wrong reasons.
>>Norma Munoz:
One of the things that tom horn has brought up is hiring practices. Two years ago we totally dismantled the way we are hiring here at Roosevelt and began and put in a new process that eliminated Roosevelt on having any hands-on hiring. We hired the Arizona School Board Association to do the prescreening interviewing and selecting the top three candidates and presenting it to the district without any board interference or administration interference or community interference.
>>Tom Horne:
Notoriously racial issues predominated, personal issues predominated and no leadership to get academic achievement. It was a pilot-less airplane flying in the dark and a lot of mountains around.
>>Norma Munoz:
I think Mr. Horn is using the old race card to make it seem like Roosevelt is engaging in the old-time games. It's not true. Not a bit true. There's nothing racial about the problems we're having. We have--we are a very diverse district including our employees. We have many of our staff people live in this community, many don't. But we have no problems in race. I don't see it. I was here when there were race tensions, racial tensions years ago. That is not the case today.
>>David Majure:
What is true today is half of Roosevelt's schools are underperforming or failing. An invitation for the state to take control of the district and try to turn it around.
>>Norma Munoz:
I don't think there's anything they can do different. We are doing everything that they have asked us to do and more on our own. So we are implementing all our improvement plans to the tee. Let us continue the upward trend. Let us continue going forth without interruptions so that we can finish this job and do it right for our community, for our children. We deserve a chance.
>>>Ted Simons:
Joining me to talk about the district takeover law is Representative Cloves Campbell Jr. of Phoenix, a democrat and co-sponsor of the bill, and John Loredo of Tequida and Gutierrez who is representing the Roosevelt District. Mr. Loredo is a former state representative and house democratic leader. Thank you both for joining us on "Horizon." What can the state do better in the local school district and particular Roosevelt School District?
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
Well a couple of things can happen. The issues at hand and failing schools, lack of support through the community and lack from the district level and administrative level from the principal to the teachers and students. The biggest thing is to get some continuity. I think that's the biggest issue at hand right now.
>>Ted Simons:
Consistency. It sounds as though things are on the up and increasingly getting better and inconsistency if you bring the state in.
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
If you listen to the people on interview, it sounds great. That's not the case. Over the past several years there's been a continuing decline in the performance of the schools. A couple of years ago there were six or seven schools underperforming. Now we have 11 schools. We are not just looking at not just snapshots but the entire district issue.
>>Ted Simons:
John, Roosevelt's a troubled district. Why is it wrong for the state to take over?
>>John Loredo:
Because they are looking at it from a historical perspective. What they do not realize and Tom Horne hasn't taken time to realize is things have changed in the Roosevelt District. The racial divisions and those things happened with former board members who are no longer there. One of whom is state representative and sponsor of the bill. He was the representative and chairman of the board. When he was chair, there was racial tension in the district. The district got sued several times because of racial things he himself did in the district. He is no longer there. When he left morale improved and it ended. Roosevelt can show on state's statistics from the third grade to fifth grade to eighth grade that there's steady improvement in reading and math.
>>Ted Simons:
I want to get the racial divide of the black-brown tension in the district. A, is it getting better? B, if so, is that an encouraging sign that the district is getting its act together?
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
It's definitely getting better and it's an encouraging sign that the district is getting the act together. However that's not the motivating sign of this piece of legislation. What we are looking at are we care about the students. There are a number of students who are not going to the school in the district that live there. Over 3,000 students get bused out and charter schools everyday that should be going to the Roosevelt school district. We spend a lot of money and numbers as far as the education and academic performance doesn't show that.
>>Ted Simons:
You're a parent and your kids don't go to the Roosevelt District, why?
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
Because of the reason we put the legislation together. The academic standards are not there. The supplies that the students should have are not available to them and the way the things are run at the school district is not what I want my children part of.
>>Ted Simons:
John, mention the tests. We were talking about reading and math aims scores?
>>John Loredo:
Yes. The legislation says that Tom Horne has to go before the state board of education and prove that Roosevelt School District is not following their improvement plans. They will be able to show on paper they are in fact following the plans. They will show a variety of things from civic engagement to outside programs. They will be able to show that they have been increasing their academic achievement over the last three years. That is not an accident. In 2005 you had a changeover in the school board and you had a new superintendent. Since that superintendent and this school board have been in place, the numbers have gone from going straight down to going straight up. That is not an accident. That is a big change and it didn't happen today. It happened two years ago.
>>Ted Simons:
Why should the state, though, and why should parents and people in the community say, well, things might be a little bit better but there is such a history and some of the schools are still underperforming. Why should they say let's go ahead and do what we're doing and instead of trying something different?
>>John Loredo:
Because they have new people at the school and a new vision at the school and results to show things are improving. Let's make one thing clear. Tom Horne is the last person that should be taking over the Roosevelt school district. He has a long story and poor history with the Hispanic students. He wound up on the wrong side of the office of civil rights violations in which the feds agreed he was undeserving Hispanic students. This is the same guy who is low-balling the ELL estimate for Roosevelt school district and every other school district in the state. Roosevelt has 30\% ELL population at its school. He had control of school in school district. Has he shown he has turned the school around? Absolutely not. There's nothing to show that Tom Horne can do the job better than the people in the district.
>>Ted Simons:
Are you suggesting an ethnic blind eye by tom horn?
>>John Loredo:
I think he doesn't have a clue how to educate Hispanic students and made policy decisions not in the best interest of kids in the Roosevelt School District.
>>Ted Simons:
I don't want to go back to the racial divide. We are hearing that Tom Horne doesn't understand how to educate Latino students. I can see this is a problem in the district.
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
This is not a problem. This is not a Tom Horne bill. This is a student bill about people in the Roosevelt School District who are not getting the proper education that they should get. Tom horn will not be running the school district. There will be an independent running it selected from a pool of 100 candidates. The candidates will be selected from three finalists going through the state board and they will select the candidate. This candidate has a certain amount of time to put a program in place, look around and make sure he has a program to fit the diversity of the district. Once that's in place, the entire community will see what their involvement should be. Once that happens, everything will flow smoothly. When you talk about Tom Horne issues, the farthest thing in my mind is a Tom Horne issue. This is not about Tom Horne. This is about students of the Roosevelt School District getting a proper education in the district they live in.
>>Ted Simons:
Why has the Roosevelt District historically been an underachieving district, why?
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
I'm a product of Roosevelt School District and been there all my life. It was created because African Americans could not live north of the river bottom in the '40s and '50s and created schools for African Americans to go to. They were not spending a sufficient amount of money to educate them. There was a divide driven through the district immediately and not enough funding available. Despite all of that Roosevelt has excellent teachers and students coming out of the district. We have Harvard students and graduates and everybody coming out of the Roosevelt school district in spite of what happened in the '50s and '60s.
>>John Loredo:
Roosevelt School District historically has been the largest employer in South Phoenix. Politicians have used Roosevelt school district to hand out jobs to friends, political supporters, relatives. Nepotism is the name of the game here. That is what has harmed Roosevelt School District in the past. That is not the case anymore. This is a new board. This is a new superintendent. Prior to this superintendent being in place, Roosevelt School District went through a series of superintendents. One after another after another. It's simply getting rid of the head was the solution; their problems would have been solved a long time ago. This is not a technical issue. This is an adaptive challenge. The only people solving the problems of Roosevelt School District are the people who live there, the parents and teachers and administrators working together and that are what they have been doing the last couple of years and they have the results to show.
>>Ted Simons:
Will the people in the community feel left out? Will they feel less ownership of the district once the state takes over and as john says people who otherwise show input sits back and says the state will do it?
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
Not at all. This is an opportunity for everyone to get involved in the process. There's been no communication from the school. Until the threat of this piece of legislation came forward, there was nobody doing anything. All of a sudden we see test scores and information that we haven't seen before. Why is there a threat that something is going to happen and the change of need comes about, all the information shows up? When we talk about the school district performing or underperforming when the new superintendent got in the office we lost performance from the school districts to four or five schools. We went from some performing to underperforming in the last year itself.
>>Ted Simons:
How soon would the takeover happen if the board of education says let's do it tomorrow, how long does it take?
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
They are meeting later this Month. There's an opportunity for the board to say, okay, we see a need to do this. Go ahead. Once the board does that and gives the approval for the state to go through the process. The process begins. It depends on how long the search takes. It could take 30 days. Once we have a person in place, he has 120 days to look over the district, see what ideas he has, how he wants to implement the program and report back to the state board.
>>Ted Simons:
John, do you think the timetable makes sense?
>>John Loredo:
I don't think there will be a hearing on this until the end of June to be honest. All it is a hearing. Tom Horne has to come in as equal party to the Roosevelt School District and has to prove that Roosevelt is not following the plan. Roosevelt will have an opportunity to defend themselves and are following the plan. The state board will look at the evidence and decide whether or not a takeover is an appropriate thing for the district and we don't believe it is.
>>Ted Simons:
Very quickly, what are you hearing from residents?
>>John Loredo:
You know, I think it's pretty clear. When the governor had this bill on her desk for all of three business days, there were 380 phone calls to her asking her to veto the bill with only 64 supporting the bill. I think they are very opposed to this. They don't want their Accountability taken away.
>>Ted Simons:
10 seconds, what are you hearing?
>>Cloves Campbell Jr.:
Just the opposite. There's as many people that want the bill in the place and the schools are going in the positive direction and the kids get the positive education they deserve.
>>Ted Simons:
Thank you for joining us.
>>>Ted Simons:
Thursday on "horizon," he's been called Darwin's rottweiler. Celebrated author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins talks about the beauty of evolution and his promotion of atheism. That's it for now. Thank you so much for joining us. You have a great evening.


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He had at least one brother, Willie, who played with him at Florida A&M.
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The phrase 'Welsh writing in English' has replaced the earlier 'Anglo-Welsh literature' because many Welsh writers in English have felt that the latter usage failed to give "Welsh status to Welsh people who, not speaking Cymraeg, nevertheless do not feel at all English".[2]
There is no final, clear definition of what constitutes a Welsh writer in English, or Anglo-Welsh author. Obviously it includes Welsh writers whose first language is English, rather than Welsh, such as Swansea born Dylan Thomas (1914–53) and novelist Emyr Humphreys, born in Prestatyn in 1919. But it also includes those born outside Wales with Welsh parentage, who were influenced by their Welsh roots, like London-born poet David Jones (1895–1974). Glyn Jones in The Dragon Has Two Tongues defines the Anglo-Welsh as "those Welsh men and women who write in English about Wales" (p. 37).
In addition, writers born outside Wales, who have both lived in as well as written about Wales, are often included, such as John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), who settled in Wales in 1935 and wrote two major novels, Owen Glendower (1941) and Porius (1949), that have Welsh subject matter. In addition to using Welsh history and settings, Powys also uses the mythology of The Mabinogion. He also studied the Welsh language.[3] Then there is the poet, teacher, and critic Jeremy Hooker (born 1941), who taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1965–84 and became deeply involved in writing about and teaching Welsh writing in English during this time, though he wrote only a few poems with Welsh subject matter. The Liverpool-born novelist James Hanley (1897–1985) lived in Wales from 1931 until 1963 and was buried there, but only a few of his many works have Welsh subject matters.[4] As one writer notes: "a widely debatable area of Anglo-Welsh acceptability exists".[5] Saunders Lewis, the noted Welsh-language poet, novelist, dramatist, and nationalist, in fact rejected the possibility of Anglo-Welsh literature, because of the use of the language of the British colonialists, affirming that '"the literature which people called Anglo-Welsh was indistinguishable from English literature".[6]
The beginnings[edit]
While Raymond Garlick discovered sixty-nine Welsh men and women who wrote in English prior to the twentieth century,[7] Dafydd Johnston thinks it "debatable whether such writers belong to a recognisable Anglo-Welsh literature, as opposed to English literature in general".[8]
While historically Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, well into the nineteenth century English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert (1593–1633) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan from Brecknockshire (1622–1695), and John Dyer from Carmarthenshire (1699–1757). While some see them as clearly belonging to the English tradition,[9] Belinda Humphrey believes that both Vaughan and Dyer are Anglo-Welsh poets because, unlike Herbert, they are "rooted creatively in the Welsh countryside of their birth". Furthermore she suggests in Vaughan's case the possible influence of the tradition of Welsh-language poetry.[10]
The beginnings of an Anglo-Welsh tradition are found by some in the novels of Allen Raine (Anne Adalisa (Evans) Puddicombe) (1836–1908), from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, whose work, Stephen Thomas Knight proposes, "realised a real, if partial, separate identity and value for a Welsh social culture".[11] (Other possible precursors are Monmouthshire-born Arthur Machen (1863–1947), and Joseph Keating (1871–1934), who began his working life as a South Wales miner.) However, many see the Carmarthenshire-born satirical short-story writer and novelist Caradoc Evans (1878–1945) as the first—or first modern—Welsh writer in English. His short-story collections My People (1915) and Capel Sion (1916) were highly controversial, and Roland Mathias bitterly comments that "No other Anglo-Welsh prose writer. .. displayed such ill will to Wales or to Welsh people".[12] W. H. Davies (1871–1940), born in Newport, became famous principally for his The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp which was set mostly in North America. The principal themes in his work are observations about life's hardships, the ways in which the human condition is reflected in nature, his own tramping adventures and the various characters he met. In his poetry he was particularly inspired by birds, the weather and the seasons. His prose works were nearly all autobiographical and were sometimes, as with his 1918 "A Poet's Pilgrimage (or A Pilgrimage In Wales)", set in his homeland. (See also Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89), Edward Thomas (1878–1917) and Joseph Keating (1871–1934).)
To a large extent, though not entirely, "The first flowering of Welsh writing in English" was in industrial South Wales and this was linked to the rapid decline in the use of the Welsh language in the twentieth century, especially in this region.[13] David Jones and Dylan Thomas are two writers of the 1930s who do not fit into this paradigm.
1930s and wartime: The First Wave[edit]
During the nineteenth century the use of the Welsh language declined generally in Wales, with the development of compulsory education in the English language, but more so in the south because of immigration from England and Ireland as a result of industrialisation. This loss of language was an important factor in the development of Anglo-Welsh writing in South Wales, especially in the mining valleys. While some of these authors came from Welsh-speaking families, they generally tended to associate this language with the repressive religion of Nonconformist chapels.[14]
An early work of the first wave of Anglo-Welsh writers was The Withered Root (1927) by Rhys Davies (1901–78) from the Rhondda Valley. While he probably wrote more fiction about the industrial world of the South Wales Valleys than anyone else, Rhys Davies was in fact a grocer's son who was living in London by the time he was twenty. Unlike that of other writers from the mining community, his fiction is more concerned with individuals, in particular women, than with politics.[15] D. H. Lawrence was a major influence on Rhys, though similarities with Caradoc Evans have been noted, and it has been suggested that he had "The tendency to process images of the Welsh valleys for consumption by English audiences".[16] Another Anglo-Welsh novelist (and playwright) was Jack Jones (1884–1970), a miner's son from Merthyr Tydfil who was himself a miner from the age of 12. He was active in the union movement and politics, starting with the communist party, but in the course of his life he was involved, to some degree, with all the major British parties. Amongst his novels of working-class life are Rhondda Roundabout (1935) and Bidden to the Feast (1938). The political development of a young miner is the subject of Cwmardy (1937), Lewis Jones's (1897–1939) largely autobiographical novel.
Gwyn Thomas (1913–81) was also a coalminer's son from the Rhondda, but won a scholarship to Oxford and then became a schoolmaster. He wrote 11 novels as well as short stories, plays, and radio and television scripts, most of which focused on unemployment in the Rhondda Valley in the 1930s. He has been described by Stephen Thomas Knight as "about the most verbally brilliant writer of Welsh fiction in English".[17] His inaugural novel Sorrow for Thy Sons (1937) was rejected by Gollancz and not published until 1986. Thomas's first accepted book was a collection of short stories, Where Did I Put My Pity: Folk-Tales From the Modern Welsh, which appeared in 1946. He was also known for his negative attitude to the Welsh language, and Glyn Jones sees him as falling "short of being a completely representative figure ... in his attitude to Wales and Welshness," as Gwyn Thomas "appears in his writing to have little sympathy with the national aspirations and indigenous culture of our country".[18] Another writer who escaped from his proletarian background was Gwyn Jones (1907–1999). He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including Times Like These (1936) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners' strike. Jones founded The Welsh Review in 1939, which he edited until 1948; this journal was important for raising discussion of Welsh issues. What is probably the most famous novel about Wales, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley, was published in 1939. It is described by Glyn Jones in The Dragon Has Two Tongues as a "staggering and accomplished piece of literary hokum" (p. 51), "a book [that Jones finds] impossible to take seriously, though much of it [he] read with absorption" (p. 53). (See also Margiad Evans [Peggy Whistler] (1909–58); Richard Hughes (1900–76); Alexander Cordell (1914–97).)
The mining valleys produced a significant working-class poet in Idris Davies (1905–53), who worked as a coal miner before qualifying as a teacher. He initially wrote in Welsh "but rebellion against chapel religion", along with the "inspirational influence of English" poets, led him to write in English. Gwalia Deserta (1938) is about the Great Depression, while the subject of The Angry Summer (1943) is the 1926 miners' strike.
There are a number of other authors who published before the Second World War but who did not come from the South Wales valleys. Amongst these was Swansea suburbanite Dylan Thomas (1914–53), whose first collection, 18 Poems, was published in 1934. Then there is Geraint Goodwin (1903–41) from Newtown in mid-Wales, who, in such works as the novel The Heyday in the Blood (1936), wrote about declining rural communities in the border region. David Jones (1895–1974), whose father was from North Wales, was born in a London suburb. His epic poem In Parenthesis, which deals with his World War I experiences, was published in 1937. Another Swansea poet Vernon Watkins (1906–67) likewise does not belong with the main group of writers of the so-called First Wave from the South Wales mining communities. Roland Mathias suggests that "his use of Welsh tradition was highly selective – only the ancient custom of the Mari Lwyd and the legend of Taliesin".[19] Alun Lewis (1915–44), from Cwmaman near Aberdare, published both poetry and short fiction and might well have been a major figure in the decades after the war but for his early death.
The Anglo-Welsh writers of the 1930s had to look to London for publication and the possibility of literary success; though gradually, beginning in 1937, Welsh writing in English received encouragement from Welsh-based literary and critical journals, initially Wales, published by Keidrych Rhys in three intermittent series between 1937 and 1960. Next came the Welsh Review, published by Gwyn Jones, first in 1939 and then between 1944 and 1948. (See also Life and Letters Today, which between 1938–50 contained works by and about many Welsh writers in English.)
After 1945[edit]
The careers of some 1930s writers continued after World War Two, including those of Gwyn Thomas, Vernon Watkins, and Dylan Thomas, whose most famous work Under Milk Wood was first broadcast in 1954. The critic, novelist, and poet Glyn Jones's (1905–1995) career also began in the 1930s, but he belongs more to the later era, and one of his most important works, the novel The Island of Apples, was published in 1965. His first language had been Welsh but he chose to write in English. James A. Davies describes him as "a considerable talent in need of the great editor he never managed to find".[20] David Jones also first published in the late 1930s, yet he too belongs more to the post-war era. Tony Conran in 2003 suggested that it was not until the late sixties, "with the 'fragments' that were to be collected in The Sleeping Lord (1974), that his work began to enter our bloodstream and be seen as a significant part of the Anglo-Welsh renaissance".[21]
The attitude of the post-war generation of Welsh writers in English towards Wales differs from the previous generation, in that they were more sympathetic to Welsh nationalism and to the Welsh language. The change can be linked to the nationalist fervour generated by Saunders Lewis and the burning of the Bombing School on the Lleyn Peninsula in 1936, along with a sense of crisis generated by World War II.[22] In poetry R. S. Thomas (1913–2000) was the most important figure throughout the second half of the twentieth century, beginning with The Stones of the Field in 1946 and concluding with No Truce with the Furies (1995). While he "did not learn the Welsh language until he was 30 and wrote all his poems in English",[23] he wanted the Welsh language to be made the first language of Wales, and the official policy of bilingualism abolished. He wrote his autobiography in Welsh, but said he lacked the necessary grasp of the language to employ it in his poems. Although an Anglican priest, he was a fervent nationalist and advocated non-violent action against English owners of holiday homes in Wales.[24] As an admirer of Saunders Lewis, Thomas defended his need to use English: "Since there is in Wales a mother tongue that continues to flourish, a proper Welshman can only look on English as a means of rekindling interest in the Welsh language, and of leading people back to the mother tongue."[25]
In the field of fiction the major figure in the second half of the twentieth century was Emyr Humphreys (1919). Humphreys' first novel The Little Kingdom was published in 1946; and during his long writing career he has published over twenty novels. These include A Toy Epic (1958), Outside the House of Baal (1965), and a sequence of seven novels, The Land of the Living, which surveys the political and cultural history of twentieth-century Wales. With regard to the fact that he wrote in English, Humphreys refers to "using the language of cultural supremacy to try to express something that comes directly from the suppressed native culture" of Wales.[26] His most recent work is the collection of short stories, The Woman in the Window (2009).
Another novelist of the post-Second-World-War era was Raymond Williams (1921–88). Born near Abergavenny, Williams continued the earlier tradition of writing from a left-wing perspective on the Welsh industrial scene in his trilogy "Border Country" (1960), "Second Generation" (1964), and "The Fight for Manod" (1979). He also enjoyed a reputation as a cultural historian. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider circles. His writings on politics, the mass media, and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach.
At a local level Fred Hando(1888–1970) chronicled and illustrated the history, character and folklore of Monmouthshire (which he also called Gwent), in a series of over 800 articles and several books published between the 1920s and 1960s.
1960s and after[edit]
While the second half of the twentieth century saw the serious decline of Welsh heavy industry, along with serious unemployment and the hardship and suffering that came with it, it also saw significant cultural gains with regard to a separate Welsh identity within the British Isles, starting with the appointing of a Secretary of State for Wales in 1964, and the establishment of a Welsh Office in Cardiff the following year. With these developments came an Arts Council for Wales. For the Welsh-speaking minority there was the Welsh Language Act of 1967, and – from the 1970s – the establishment of more schools using Welsh as their primary means of instruction (see education in Wales). A Welsh-language TV channel was set up in 1982. The culmination of this trend was the creation of a National Assembly for Wales in 1999. The defeat of the first Welsh devolution referendum in 1979 had been a grave disappointment to Welsh nationalists.
The expansion in the publication of Anglo-Welsh writers in Wales in journal and book form was important for the further development of Welsh writing in English. This included The Welsh Review (1939–1948), which later became Dock Leaves and then The Anglo-Welsh Review (1949–1987) and continues (from 1988) as the New Welsh Review. In 1967 another important Anglo-Welsh journal, Poetry Wales, was founded by Meic Stephens, assisted by Harri Webb. Shortly thereafter, in 1970, Planet was launched by Ned Thomas. In the early 1990s came the yearly Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays edited by M. Wynn Thomas & Tony Brown.
Amongst book publishers, the University of Wales Press, founded in 1922, has been influential. Poetry Wales became involved with publishing, firstly as Poetry Wales Press, and then, since 1985, as Seren Books. Y Lolfa, founded in the 1960s as a Welsh-language publishing house, later began producing English-language books on subjects of Welsh interest. Gomer Press, based in Llandysul, Carmarthenshire, is another supporter of Welsh writing in English. It was established in 1892 and claims to be '"the largest publishing house in Wales". A more recent addition to Welsh publishing in English is Honno Press, which specialises in women writers.
To return to literature itself, the problems of post-industrial South Wales of the 1960s and 1970s is the subject for novelists such as Alun Richards (1929–2004) and Ron Berry (1920–97). Both use humour in their bitter description of the spiritual decay of the South Wales Valleys, where the heavy industries of iron and steel and coal have disappeared, to be replaced by high-technology industrial parks. Similar themes are angrily expressed in the novels of a younger generation, as in Christopher Meredith's (born 1954) Shifts (1988), which deals with the closing of a steel mill, and Duncan Bush's (born 1946) grim portrait of urban isolation Glass Shot (1991).[27]
The subject matter of the Cardiff-born Booker Prize-winner Bernice Rubens (1928–2004) is quite different.[28] She was a member of Cardiff's small Jewish community; and associated themes were a central concern of much of her writing, including Brothers (1983), where parallels with her own ancestry are obvious: it follows four generations of a family which flees Russia for South Wales. As only a couple of her 25 novels have a Welsh setting she does not fit the narrower definitions of Welsh writing in English.
While the Anglo-Welsh literary scene tended to be dominated by fiction in the 1930s, in the latter part of the twentieth century poetry flourished. A landmark event was the 1967 publication of Bryn Griffith's anthology Welsh Voices, which, in Tony Conran's words, was "the most lively and exciting selection of contemporary Anglo-Welsh poetry ever to have appeared".[29] Tony Conran (born 1931) is an important figure in this so-called second flowering as critic, poet, and translator of Welsh poetry. His Penguin Book of Welsh Verse (1967) has been especially helpful in bridging the gap between the Welsh and English speaking. In his own poetry he makes use of Welsh tradition: for example, his elegy for Welsh soldiers killed in the Falklands War is modelled on Aneirin's Y Gododdin.[30] Swansea poet Harri Webb's (1920–1994) verse, including The Green Desert (1969), is marked in its themes by a radical and uncompromising commitment to Welsh nationalist politics. Another important poet of the late twentieth century is Tony Curtis (born 1946) from Carmarthen: he is the author of several collections, most recently War Voices (1995), The Arches (1998), and Heaven's Gate (2001). John Tripp (1927–86), a convinced Welsh nationalist, was ironically aware of the fact that, while born in Wales, he had worked outside the Principality until his early forties. Robert Minhinnick, born in 1952, is a notable writer from the second half of the twentieth century. He has been the winner of a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award, and has twice won the Forward Prize for best individual poem, while his collections of essays have twice won the Wales Book of the Year Award. Minhinnick edited Poetry Wales magazine from 1997 to 2008. His first novel, Sea Holly (2007) was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.
Welsh writing in English tended from the beginning to be dominated by men, but the period after World War II produced some distinguished Welsh women poets, including Ruth Bidgood (born 1922), Gillian Clarke (born 1937), and Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950). Pugh was born in Birmingham, but lived for many years in Cardiff and taught creative writing at the University of Glamorgan until retiring in 2008. Her collection Stonelight (1999) won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2000. She has twice won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. She has also published novels. She now lives in Shetland. Although Ruth Bidgood was born near Neath in 1922, her first collection The Given Time appeared only in 1972. Gillian Clarke is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh. She was born in Cardiff and raised there, in Penarth, and in Pembrokeshire. Both her parents were native Welsh speakers, yet she was brought up speaking English and learnt Welsh only as an adult. In the mid-1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion, West Wales. She became the third National Poet for Wales in 2008. Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias (1915–2007), Leslie Norris (1921–2006), John Ormond (1923–1990), Dannie Abse (born 1923), Raymond Garlick (born 1926), Peter Finch (born 1947), and Paul Groves (born 1947) have a significant place. With regard to the current situation of Welsh poetry in English, Ian Gregson suggests that "much of the most exciting poetry in Britain is being written in Wales". He singles out Oliver Reynolds (born 1957), Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), and Stephen Knight (born 1960) as having fulfilled "their early promise".[31]
- Anthony Conran, The Cost of Strangeness: Essays on the English Poets of Wales. Gwasg Gomer,1982.
- Raymond Garlick, An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1970.
- Katie Gramich, Twentieth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2007.
- Katie Gramich, ed., Mapping the Territory: Critical Approaches to Welsh Fiction in English. Parthian: Cardigan, 2010.
- Ian Gregson. The New Poetry in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
- John Harris, A Bibliographical Guide to twenty-four Modern Anglo-Welsh Writers. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1994.
- Jeremy Hooker, The Presence of the Past: Essays on Modern British and American Poets. Poetry Wales Press: Brigend, 1987.
- Jeremy Hooker, Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2001.
- Dafydd Johnston, A Pocket Guide: The Literature of Wales. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1994.
- Glyn Jones, The Dragon Has Two Tongues (1968). Revised edition, ed. Tony Brown. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2001.
- Stephen Knight, A Hundred years of Fiction: Writing Wales in English. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2004.
- Roland Mathias, Anglo-Welsh Literature: An Illustrated History . Poetry Wales Press: Brigend, 1987.
- Meic Stephens, ed., The New Companion to the Literature of Wales. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. 1998.
- Thomas, M. Wynn, Internal Difference : Twentieth-Century Writing in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press,1992.
- M. Wynn Thomas, Corresponding Cultures: The Two Literatures of Wales. University of Wales Press: Cardiff Press, 1999.
- M. Wynn Thomas, ed., Welsh Writing in English. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2003
- Ned Thomas, Welsh Extremist. Gollancz: London, 1971 (reprinted by Y Lolfa, 1991).
See also[edit]
- ^ Raymond Garlick An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature (University of Wales Press, 1970)
- ^ Stephen Thomas Knight, A Hundred Years of Fiction. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004.
- ^ John Cowper Powys: Letters 1937–54, ed. Iorwerth C. Peate, University of Wales Press: Cardiff,1974, pp.3-5.
- ^ See Grey Children (1937); Don Quixote Drowned (1953); The Welsh Sonata (1954); A Stone Flower (1968); Another World (1972); A Kingdom (1978).
- ^ Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature: The Twentieth Century, ed. Linda R. Williams. Bloomsbury Publishing: London, 1992, p.314.
- ^ Michael J. Collins, "Keeping the Flag Flying: Anglo-Welsh Poetry in the Twentieth Century". World Literature Today", Vol.56, no.1 (Winter 1982); Saunders Lewis, "Is There an Anglo-Welsh Literature". University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1939.
- ^ Raymond Garlick, An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature
- ^ A Pocket Guide to the Literature of Wales University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1994, p. 91
- ^ A Pocket Guide, p. 91.
- ^ Belinda Humfrey, "Prelude to the Twentieth Century", in Welsh Writing in English, ed. M. Wynn Thomas. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2003, pp. 5-46.
- ^ A Hundred Years of Fiction, p.25.
- ^ Anglo-Welsh Literature, p.82.
- ^ A Pocket Guide, p.102.
- ^ A Pocket Guide, p. 102.
- ^ A Hundred Years of Fiction, p.64.
- ^ A Pocket Guide, p.104.
- ^ A Hundred Years of Fiction, p.93.
- ^ The Dragon Has Two Tongues. p.115
- ^ The Pocket Guide, p.112; Anglo-Welsh Literature, p.95.
- ^ "Dylan Thomas and His Contemporaries", in Welsh Writing in English, ed. M. Wynn Thomas, p. 139.
- ^ "Poetry Wales and the Second Flowering", p.224.
- ^ The Pocket Guide, p.122.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, "Obituary", September 27, 2000
- ^ Los Angeles Times, "Obituary".
- ^ R. S. Thomas, Selected Prose, ed. Sandra Anstey. Poetry Wales Press: Brigend, 1986, p. 53
- ^ Emyr Humphreys: Conversations and Reflections, ed. M. Wynn Thomas. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2002, p.8.
- ^ Pocket Guide p. 135.
- ^ The Elected Member won the prize in 1970.
- ^ "Poetry Wales and the Second Flowering" in Welsh Writing in English, ed. M. Wynn Thomas.
- ^ Pocket Guide.
- ^ The New Poetry in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, p.1.
External links[edit]
- The Library of Wales – Writing for the World
- Welsh Writers
- Academi List of Writers
- Welsh Biography Online
- Go Brittania Wales: Welsh Literature 20th Century
- Transcript-review.org
- The North American Journal of Welsh Studies
- Spruce.flint.umich.edu
- North American journal of Welsh studies (Online)
- British Council
- Welsh Poetry Competition


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