James Eirian Davies (28 May 1918 – 5 July 1998)[1] was a Welsh poet and Methodist minister.
[2] His parents were Rachel and Dafydd Davies, who worked a farm in the Nantgaredig area of Carmarthenshire.
Tragedy struck when his brother Emrys was drowned when they were swimming in the River Tywi near Llain.
He was much comforted by the local chapel community, and it was they who later influenced his decision to enter the ministry.
In the same year he married Jennie Howells, and they had two sons, Siôn Eirian (later an actor and writer)[3] and Guto Davies.