David Hughes (poet)

[6] In 2023, Hughes' dialect poetry was performed as part of a special celebration of his work by actors Christian Patterson, Sophie Melville, Lisa Zahra, Richard Mylan and Lee Mengo.

[8] In April 2011, political party Plaid Cymru were forced to correct a manifesto that used it as its title, incorrectly stating that it was chosen in honour of the upcoming Dylan Thomas centenary in 2014.

Many quickly pointed out the party's mistake, with poet Nigel Jenkins remarking that although it was a splendid slogan to choose for his election manifesto, Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones was simply fuelling the urban myth.

[3] "Ambition is critical" was created as part of a 1993 commission, shared with fellow poets Nigel Jenkins and Menna Elfyn, to write site-specific poems for use in a refurbished Swansea city centre.

[9] However, many of the one-line 'micropoems' that were inscribed on street furniture were soon removed, following a smear campaign in the Swansea Herald and South Wales Evening Post that suggested the poets were making fun of the "local patois.