Gwaith Alun

The volume gathers the author's life material and a broad selection of lyrical and occasional verse, framed by a biographical preface and arranged roughly in chronological sections. It contains short Welsh forms such as englynion alongside longer odes, religious hymns and elegies, occasional civic pieces, and reflective essays on language and culture. Recurring concerns include faith and devotion, poetic craft and competition, memory and mourning, and responses to local landscape and communal life, with shifts in tone that mark youthful ambition, learned refinement, and later solemnity.