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He pulls the entire poem from his bag
heavy with Pembrokeshire Welsh –
the weight of four chairs and a crown.

Extract from winning entry ‘Carreg Goffa: Dewi Emrys’ by Emily Hinshelwood
From Arthurian legend to Aztecs in Blaenau and ruined castles to valleys girls: Away Too Long: an Anthology of Writing About Wales contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ Wales Themed Competition.

Winner:

‘Carreg Goffa: Dewi Emry’ by Emily Hinshelwood

Commended:

‘Llanddwyn Island’ by Sophie Shanahan

‘Round the Castle’ by CP Davies

‘The Red Trunk’ by Eilidh Thomas

‘Blaenau Aztecs’ by Vivien Jones

‘Caergybi’ by Oz Hardwick

‘green memory’ by Catherine Edmunds

‘Once by Llyn Tegid’, ‘Penmaen Pool, December 1980’ and ‘The Blind Man of Tomen-Y-Mur’ by Mike Bannister

‘Ty Mawr. A Photo on a Wall’ by Mark Lewis

‘ Hafod Uchtryd’ by Gill Learner

‘Rhian’s Story’ by Mike Wareham

‘Sisters’ by Deborah Gaudin

‘ Bristol’ by Gabriel Griffin

‘Away Too Long’ by William Prince

‘The Valleys Girl’ by Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

‘Ebbw Vale Grand Slam’ and ‘Two Memories’ by Jane Moss

‘Sin Eater’ by Clare Girvan

‘No Through Road’ by Sue Anderson

‘Llys Helig’ by Rachel Hand

‘Greeting’ by Sylvia Mandeville

 

‘Milking at Bryn Cambric’ by Kate Grubb

 

‘Winter Afternoon Under Alltwen’ by Caroline Clark

‘Gap in the Rocks’ by Claudia Myatt (cover illustration)