Bryan Martin Davies

Bryan Martin Davies (8 April 1933 – 19 August 2014) was a Welsh poet, author and translator, who worked as a teacher.

Davies was born in the village of Brynamman, the son of a coalminer, Horace Davies, and his wife Evelyn (née Martin), and was brought up with Welsh as his first language. He was educated at Amman Valley Grammar School and went on to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. During this period, he produced an MA thesis on the work of the poet D. Gwenallt Jones. After completing national service with the North Staffordshire Regiment, he became a teacher, first at Ysgol Rhiwabon and later at Yale Sixth Form College,

Having won a crown for his poetry at a university eisteddfod, Davies began to write poetry seriously. On moving to Wrexham, he became friendly with the poet Euros Bowen, and founded a literary society locally.

Personal life Davies was diagnosed with a form of cancer during the 1980s and took early retirement from Yale. His wife Gwenda, whom he married in 1958, The line chosen was "Dilynem ddartiau gwyn y gwylain aflonydd yn trywanu targed y creigiau" ("We follow the restless seagulls' white darts as they pierce the rocks").

Works Poetry Darluniau ar Gynfas (1970) Y Golau Caeth (1972) Lleoedd (1984)