[1] His programmes included documentaries about the poet Gwenallt Jones, the hymn-writer Ann Griffiths and the daughters of Rebecca, 1840s rioters in West Wales.
[1] He wrote scripts for Pobol y Cwm, the Welsh language soap and Licrys Olsorts, the Welsh-language counterpart of Last of the Summer Wine.
[1] In 1969 Rowlands was awarded the crown at the National Eisteddfod in 1969 held at Flint for his sequence of poems I Gwestiynau fy Mab.
[4] and that same year he won the Prose Medal for his volume of essays Ysgrifau yr Hanner Bardd.
[4] In 1977 Rowlands wrote the experimental Mae Theomemphus yn Hen, a prose novel in the Welsh language.