Sally Roberts Jones

Sally Roberts Jones (born 30 November 1935) is an English-born Welsh poet, publisher and critic.[1]

She was born Sally Roberts in London; her father was Welsh.[2]. She studied history at University College Bangor, then qualified as a librarian, before moving to South Wales in 1967. A founder member of the English Language Section of Yr Academi Gymreig, she was its Secretary / Treasurer from 1968 to 1975 and its Chair from 1993 to 1997. She founded the Alun Books imprint and is on the editorial board of the poetry journal Roundyhouse.

Works

Romford in the Nineteenth Century (1968)
Turning Away (1969) (winner, Welsh Arts Council Prize)
The Forgotten Country (1977)
Elen and the Goblin, and other legends of Afan (1977)
Strangers and Brothers (radio) (1977)
Books of Welsh Interest: an annotated bibliography (1977)
Allen Raine (Writers of Wales series) (1979)
Relative Values (1985)
The History of Port Talbot (1991)
Pendarvis (1992)
Dic Penderyn: the Man and the Martyr (1993)
Notes for a Life: New and Selected Poems 1953-2005 (2010)

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