Poem after poem finds him kneeling in a dark empty church ... the consciousness that no words—not even the poet’s—can ever adequately name God. People who know R. S. Thomas personally say that his ...

As Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written, R.S. Thomas was—like one of the poet’s spiritual mentors, Soren Kierkegaard—a “great articulator of uneasy faith.” An early poem ...

JIM COTTER has selected 52 poems by R. S. Thomas, including the one the poet himself cherished at the end, with a view to helping people to use them to make a personal pilgrimage. A few are well known ...

A posthumous collection of poems by R. S. Thomas has been published to mark tomorrow's centenary of his birth. Martyn Halsall looks at the poems from an Easter perspective THE Welsh poet R. S. Thomas ...

They are among the best-known initials in poetry, but R S Thomas made them ... except God's." Betty Thomas, his second wife and widow, burnt three bags of poems after he died.

R.S. Thomas was 42 when Rupert Hart-Davis brought out Song at the Year's Turning, before which there had been just one book, printed at his own expense, and a few poems in magazines. John Betjeman ...

R.S. Thomas, 87, a priest and Welsh nationalist who became one of Britain's most admired poets, died Sept. 25. No cause of death was given. In his poems, Mr. Thomas gnawed relentlessly at his ...

‘A creative artist has to be painfully honest with himself,’ R.S. Thomas declared in his autobiography, Neb: He has to look as objectively as possible at his creations. What is the point of pretending ...

The first appears in his Collected Poems 1945-1990 (Phoenix Press, £14.99); the second in R S Thomas: Uncollected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, £9.95).

Some were reunited with poems ... RS Thomas was raised in Holyhead and read classics at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and later trained in theology at St Michael’s College ...