Chris Meredith launches Wordsmiths in Session

April 11, 2011

Poet and novelist Chris Meredith kicks off the first in a series of monthly literary events at The Hours Cafe and Bookshop in Brecon on Saturday April 16th at 7pm.

Philip Gross on genealogy programme

April 8, 2011

In ‘Look Up Your Genes’, a new Radio Wales documentary transmitted this Sunday, April 10th at 5.30pm, Professor Philip Gross recalls the story of his Estonian father who fled to Britain during WWII.

Glamorgan Professor’s poetry adorns Trafalgar Square Christmas tree

December 17, 2010

Philip Gross’ new version of 'Gerd’ by Norwegian poet Nordahl Grieg is one of three poems commissioned by the Poetry Society in celebration of the world’s most famous Christmas tree. Norway’s most important war poet, Grieg escorted Norway’s King Haakon VII to his wartime exile in London, and was later killed in action on 2 December 1943. Gerd is both a love poem to his wife Gerd and an evocation of peace and the natural landscape.

“I recognise the Nordic attitude to nature and to one’s home landscape,” says Professor Gross, “from my own father, who came as a wartime refugee from Estonia.”