Ruth Bidgood

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Ruth Bidgood (born 1922), is a Welsh poet.

She was born at Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot and went to school in Port Talbot. After reading English at the University of Oxford, she worked as a coder with the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) in Alexandria and later worked for Chambers Encyclopaedia in London. She started writing after her return to Wales during the 1960s when she settled at Abergwesyn. She has published five volumes of poetry, The Given Time (1972), Not Without Homage (1975), The Print of Miracle (1978), Kindred (1986) and The Fluent Moment (1996), all of which are concerned with the people, landscape and seasons of mid-Wales. A volume of new and selected poems has appeared under the title Lighting Candles (1982); a second volume of her Selected Poems appeared in 1992 and also numerous articles on the history of Breconshire and Radnorshire.

Adapted from The New Companion to the Literature of Wales (Cardiff, 1998) compiled and edited by Meic Stephens