Tryweryn at 55: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s ‘71,200 Megalitres’ with a new introduction by the author, and online exclusive essay by Sharon Morris – Poetry Wales 56.1 Summer 2020
Flooded or Drowned? – An Introduction to ‘71,200 Megalitres’ In November 2005 I was on a writing residency at Hawthornden Castle outside Edinburgh. One afternoon I happened to catch part of the BBC Radio 4 programme Open Country, in which the speaker was visiting ‘the Tryweryn reservoir’ to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of ‘the flooding’…
