He is a prolific poet with collections from various presses, most recently Cinnamon Press[3] and won an Arts Council of Wales Prize for Literature in 1990 with his essay collection The King of Ashes.
Reviewers of his work have noted his interest in paleoanthropology and his pessimism about the evolutionary path taken by humans.
[6] But they have also identified a wry humour in the presentation of this theme in his poetry[7] and a counter to an apparently misanthropic stance in his positive affirmation of the natural world, an ambivalence, in the words of one reviewer "that adds, rather than subtracts", from the experience of reading his work[8] while another has commented on his sense of the Earth as an inhuman place in spite of our certainty of our place in it [9] and.
[13] A volume of tributes to him from fellow poets, artists, musicians and critics, Wired to the Dynamo,[14] was published in 2018.
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