DESTITUTE POET
SLEPT ON EMBANKMENT TURN OF FORTUNE Among the 507 distressed men and women admitted last year to the House of Charity, Greek Street, Soho Square, London, were a distinguished Welsh poet and a candidate for ordination.
The warden at the annual meeting said the poet, who had won the Bardic Crown at a National Eisteddfod of Wales, had been sleeping on the Embankment for some time before he was given shelter at the house. While there he wrote a poem, "The Vagabond,” for which he received three guineas from a literary journal. Since leaving his success had continued. He was now doing well.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 14
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105DESTITUTE POET Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 14
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