Raymond Garlick Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles

Raymond Garlick (1926-2011) was an Anglo-Welsh poet. He was also the first editor of the The Anglo-Welsh Review, a lecturer, critic, and non-violent campaigner for the use of the Welsh language. He studied English Literature at Bangor University he was taught by R. T. Jenkins, H. D. Lewis and Charles Davies, and became an admirer of many Welsh artists and poets. His wife, a native of Wales, taught him the Welsh language. In 1967 he returned to Britain, and eventually he became a Principal Lecturer, in charge of the Welsh Studies course, at Trinity College, Carmarthen. In the 1970s he and his family took part in non-violent campaigning for the use of Welsh-language road signs in Wales, and at one point his wife and son were arrested. Garlick was a lifelong pacifist. Some of his works include; The Welsh-Speaking Sea (1954), A Sense of Europe: collected poems 1954-1968 (1968), Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 (edited, with R. Mathias) (1984), and The Delphic Voyage and Other Poems (2003).