Shared Origins

Shared Origins is a collaboration between three poets, Mike Jenkins, David Lloyd and David Annwn. Now living in Merthyr Tydfil, the USA and Wakefield, they were friends at Aberystwyth University in the 70s and now share this book as they once shared experiences.

A combination of both poetry and reminiscences, the book is dedicated to their popular and much loved lecturer of Literature, Michael Munday who died tragically young at the age of 34. There are poems inspired by Aber itself but also many which show their very different, but sometimes interconnecting, concerns. Dinosaurs in Cardiff, Richard Burton’s youth and a guide for aliens all feature from these three poets from ‘Shared Origins.’