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Tables of Contents for Christmas in Wales
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
9
6
Advent to Christmas Eve
Holly
15
1
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
Midwinter
16
1
Vernon Watkins
Midwinter
16
1
Gillian Clarke
An Old World Custom
17
2
Michael Gareth Llewelyn
from The Ballad of the Mari Llwyd
19
2
Vernon Watkins
First Snow
21
1
Ruth Bidgood
Advent Poem for Jo
22
1
Janet Dube
The Qualities of Christmas
23
2
R.S. Thomas
Some Christmas Haiku
25
1
Peter Finch
Scrooge, A Defence
26
2
Gwyn Thomas
Magpies at Christmas
28
1
Ruth Bidgood
Christmas at Pentrepoeth School, Carmarthen
29
1
Douglas Phillips
Pugh, the Festive Policeman
30
2
Glyn Jones
Mother Christmas
32
1
Sian James
Carol
33
1
R.S. Thomas
The Nativity Play
33
3
Bruce Chatwin
The Infants' Christmas Concert
36
1
Tony Curtis
Billy Scrooge and the Santagram
37
2
Herbert Williams
A Star In The East
39
1
Idris Davies
A Sad Dark Tune
40
2
Eiluned Lewis
More Christmas Haiku
42
1
Peter Finch
The Battle of Christmas
43
1
Kate Roberts
Lifting the Curse of Shabbiness
44
1
Gwyn Thomas
Pricking the Bubble
45
3
Kate Roberts
Ogley the Abstainer
48
3
Gwyn Thomas
Snow
51
1
Gillian Clarke
Hard Times
51
1
Emlyn Williams
Maldwyn
52
2
Leslie Norris
Inside the MIND Shop
54
1
Paul Henry
Radicalism on Christmas Eve
55
2
Richard Burton
A Visit to Kilvey Hill
57
2
Edith Courtney
The Invitation
59
3
Dewi Roberts
Dymuniad y Tymor
62
1
Meic Stephens
Gifts from the Chemist's Shop
63
1
Ronnie Knox Mawer
Buying the Cards
64
1
Kate Roberts
Grateful Patients
65
1
A.J. Cronin
Christmas Goose
65
2
Irene Thomas
Great, Invisible Birds
67
3
Leslie Norris
Christmas Eve 1946
70
1
Idris Davies
Solstice
71
1
Ruth Bidgood
Touching Balloons, Llandudno
72
1
Gladys Mary Coles
A Wartime Exile
73
2
Selyf Roberts
Bedtime Anticipation
75
1
Richard Hughes
A Cywydd for Christmas
76
3
Joseph P. Clancy
Christmas Day
Upon Christ's Nativity or Christmas
79
1
Rowland Watkyns
An Icy Bath
79
1
Francis Kilvert
A Victorian Festive Service
80
1
Eiluned Lewis
Nativity
81
1
Catherine Fisher
Christmas
82
1
R.S. Thomas
A Festive Gathering at Headlong Hall
82
2
Thomas Love Peacock
Y Plygaint
84
2
Nigel Wells
A Christmas Day Funeral
86
1
Francis Kilvert
Christmas Card
87
1
Huw Jones
That Bright White Snowball of Christmas
88
2
Dylan Thomas
Christmas Cheer
90
2
Harri Webb
Turkeys Aren't Pets
92
1
Mike Jenkins
A Christmas Story
93
1
Robert Minhinnick
Gifts
94
1
Gwyn Thomas
The Essence of Presents
95
1
Mike Jenkins
Star of Bethlehem
96
1
Alun Llewelyn-Williams
A Festive Letter to Pamela Hansford Johnson
97
2
Dylan Thomas
Christmas in Gwynedd
99
1
John Wain
Christmas Day at Pembroke
100
1
Phil Carradice
Christmas in the Valley
101
3
Rhydwen Williams
The Craftsman's Carol
104
1
Iorwerth Peate
A Letter from India
105
2
Alun Lewis
The Christmas Tree
107
1
Idris Davies
A Christmas Carol
107
1
T.H. Parry-Williams
Holy and Practical Matters
108
1
Jean Earle
Hill Christmas
109
1
R.S. Thomas
Carol
110
1
Saunders Lewis
A Pagan Custom
110
2
D.J. Williams
A Domestic Scene
112
2
Angharad Tomos
Sickness at Christmas
114
1
Bobi Jones
Reflections on Mortality
114
2
E. Tegla Davies
Christmas Drink
116
1
Ifor Thomas
Christmas Holiday
116
1
Alun Lewis
A Rhondda Christmas
117
2
Mary Davies Parnell
Berwyn Christmas
119
3
John Idris Jones
Under the Mistletoe
122
2
Saunders Lewis
A Difficult Christmas
124
2
Denis F. Ratcliffe
Christmases
126
1
Margiad Evans
Tom Evans' Pride
126
2
A.J. Cronin
The Christmas Eisteddfod
128
3
Tom Macdonald
Sampling the Wine
131
1
Mary Davies Parnell
Christmas Poem at Tenby Harbour
132
1
Tony Curtis
The Day of Delights
133
2
Ray Milland
An Adult's Christmas in Wales
135
6
Stuart Nolan
Boxing Day to Epiphany
from Slow
141
2
Chris Bendon
A Boxing Day Treat
143
1
Emlyn Williams
Pantomime Diseases
144
1
Dannie Abse
After Christmas
145
1
Roland Mathias
Killing the Pig
145
1
James Williams
Song at the Year's Turning
146
1
R.S. Thomas
Something Ending
147
1
Dannie Abse
Braving the Snow Storm
147
1
Francis Kilvert
Grief
148
1
Sian James
`Dydd Calan'
149
2
D. Parry-Jones
On Bardsey
151
1
Brenda Chamberlain
The Comeback
152
1
John Davies
Bethlehem
153
1
Tony Conran
Epiphany
154
1
R.S. Thomas
Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man
154
1
Dannie Abse
Author's Acknowledgements
155
1
Publisher's Acknowledgements
156