Huw Menai

Huw Owen Williams (13 July 1886, Caernarvon – 28 June 1961), who wrote as Huw Menai, was a Welsh poet, a Welsh-language speaker who nevertheless wrote only in the English language. His poems were among the first classic works to be republished as a result of a 2004 incentive on the part of the Welsh Assembly Government.

Huw Menai was educated at the Ragged School in Caernarvon. He married Anne Jones; they had 3 sons and 5 daughters.^[1]

Works

• Through the Upcast Shaft (1920)
• The Passing of Guto (1927)
• Back in Return (1933)
• The Simple Vision (1945)

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