Roland Glyn Mathias (4 September 191516 August 2007) was a Welsh writer, known for his poetry and short stories. He was also a literary critic, and responsible with Raymond Garlick for the success of the literary magazine Dock Leaves (published from Pembroke Dock County School, from 1949), which later, from 1957, became The Anglo-Welsh Review. He edited it from 1961 to 1976. His other writing includes books on David Jones, Vernon Watkins and John Cowper Powys, and Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480–1980 with Raymond Garlick.

Biography

Mathias was born at Talybont-on-Usk, south-east of Brecon in Powys, in 1915 and brought up mostly in England and Germany.

There are collections of manuscripts and correspondence of Roland Mathias and of The Anglo-Welsh Review in the National Library of Wales.

References

Publications

  • Roland Mathias (1995) by Sam Adams
  • The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias (2002) (ed. Sam Adams)
  • The Collected Short Stories of Roland Mathias (2001) (ed. Sam Adams
  • The Independent: Roland Mathias Obituary