R.S. Thomas (1[zasłonięte]913-20) is a major writer of our time, one of the finest religious poets in the English language and one of Wales's greatest poets. His output was prolific: over six decades he published some 25 individual collections of poems, as well as several volumes of prose. A substantial number of his poems, however, have hitherto remained uncollected, and often elusive poems published in newspapers, magazines and journals (many of them obscure), as well as in private or limited editions.

Uncollected Poems - published to mark the centenary of Thomas's birth - brings together for the first time a rigorous selection of the best of these. The fruit of several years' research by Tony Brown and Jason Walford Davies, the volume makes available work which spans the whole of Thomas's career from an early sonnet to his first wife, M.E. Eldridge (included in his first, unpublished, collection Spindrift in the late 1930s) and an early Iago Prytherch poem published in the Dublin Magazine, to poems which are powerful expressions of the metaphysical meditations of his later years.

R.S. Thomas's Uncollected Poems takes its place alongside Collected Poems 1[zasłonięte]945-19 (Dent, 1993; Phoenix, 2000), Selected Poems (Penguin, 2003) and Collected Later Poems 1[zasłonięte]988-20 (Bloodaxe Books, 2004). It gives readers of R.S. Thomas's work access to much new and fascinating material.