Wales - 'Cofio' from Coastal Diaries by Heulyn

'Cofio' gan Waldo Williams

One of Mam's favourite poems hung as a picture in the dining room for as long as I can remember. The words somehow describe memory and past events as not only being lost forever but steeped with an unfathomable yearning or longing, that which we call "hiraeth" in Welsh. An incredibly clever piece of poetry.

Stories of love, life, luck and loss arranged into three chapters, never more than a stone’s throw from the sea.

From wettest, wildest West Wales..….

From an overcrowded yet lonely Australian city......

From the spiritual serenity of rural New South Wales……