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

Biography

She was born Sally Roberts in London; her father was Welsh. She studied history at University College Bangor, then qualified as a librarian before moving to

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in 1967. A founding member of the English Language Section of

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, 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''. In addition to her published work, she has run workshops and courses in schools and for adults, given readings in England, Ireland, Wales and Yugoslavia, and written verse plays and children's stories for radio. She has also written and lectured on the cultural and industrial history of Wales and contributed to the ''Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales'', the ''

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'' and the ''New Dictionary of National Biography''. Two particular interests are the development of the

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and research into the field of Welsh Writing in English, though she has also written about

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, where she was initially raised. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the

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Selected 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) *''

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'' (''Writers of Wales'' series) (1979) *''Relative Values'' (1985) *''The History of Port Talbot'' (1991) *''Pendarvis'' (1992) *''

Dic Penderyn Richard Lewis (1807/8 – 13 August 1831), known as Dic Penderyn, was a Welsh labourer and coal miner who lived in Merthyr Tydfil and was involved with the Merthyr Rising of 3 June 1831. In the course of the riot he was arrested alongside Lewis ...

: the Man and the Martyr'' (1993) *''Notes for a Life: New and Selected Poems 1953-2005'' (2010)

References

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