Roland Mathias

Roland Glyn Mathias (4 September 1915 – 16 August 2007), was a Welsh writer, known for his poetry and short stories. He was also a literary critic, and responsible with Raymond Garlick for the success of the literary magazine "Dock Leaves" (from 1949), later from 1957 "The Anglo-Welsh Review". He edited it from 1961 to 1976. His other writing includes books on David Jones, Vernon Watkins and John Cowper Powys, and "Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980" with Raymond Garlick. He was born at Talybont-on-Usk, south-east of Brecon in Powys, in 1915 and brought up mostly in England and Germany. He graduated in history from Jesus College, Oxford. "Days Enduring" (1942) was his first poetry collection. He was a pacifist, and was twice gaoled in World War II as a conscientious objector. His career was in teaching, in Wales and elsewhere in the UK; he retired to Brecon in 1969 and died in 2007.

External links

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2531300.ece Obituary in "The Times" 26 September 2007]
* [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2871474.ece The Independent: Roland Mathias Obituary]

References

*"Roland Mathias" (1995) by Sam Adams
*"The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias" (2002) (ed. Sam Adams)
*"The Collected Short Stories of Roland Mathias" (2001) (ed. Sam Adams)