Editing Roland Mathias

{{Short description|Welsh writer}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Roland Glyn Mathias
| birth_date = 4 September 1915
| death_date = {{death date and age |2007|08|16 |1915|09|04 |df=yes}}
| occupation = [[Poet]], [[Short story]] [[writer]]
}}

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'''Roland Glyn Mathias''' (4 September 1915{{snd}}16 August 2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/17/guardianobituaries.books|title=Roland Mathias|date=17 October 2007|author=Sam Adams|website=The Guardian|location=London|access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref> was a [[Wales|Welsh]] writer, known for his poetry and short stories. He was also a literary critic, and responsible with [[Raymond Garlick]] for the success of the literary magazine ''Dock Leaves'' (published from Pembroke Dock County School, from 1949), which later, from 1957, became ''[[The Anglo-Welsh Review]]''. He edited it from 1961 to 1976. His other writing includes books on [[David Jones (poet)|David Jones]], [[Vernon Watkins]] and [[John Cowper Powys]], and ''Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480–1980'' with Raymond Garlick.

== Early life ==
Mathias was born at [[Talybont-on-Usk]], south-east of [[Brecon]] in [[Powys]], in 1915 and brought up mostly in England and Germany. He graduated in history from [[Jesus College, Oxford]]. ''Days Enduring'' (1942) was his first poetry collection. He was a [[pacifist]], and was twice gaoled in [[World War II]] as a [[conscientious objector]]. His career was in teaching, in Wales and elsewhere in the UK, notably serving as Headmaster of [[King Edward VI Five Ways School]], Bartley Green, [[Birmingham]], from 1964 to 1969. He retired to [[Brecon]] in 1969 and died in 2007; buried at Aber Chapel on the outskirts of Talybont on Usk.

His son, Jonathan Glyn Mathias, known as [[Glyn Mathias]], is a well known political correspondent.

== Honours and awards ==
The Roland Mathias Prize, a literary award, is administered by the [[Brecknock Society and Museum Friends]] and is named in his honour.<ref>[http://www.brecknocksociety.co.uk/mathias.htm Brecknock Society: Roland Mathias Prize]</ref>

There are collections of manuscripts and correspondence of Roland Mathias and of ''[[The Anglo-Welsh Review]]'' in the [[National Library of Wales]].<ref>Archives Wales: [http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=20432 National Library of Wales Roland Mathias Papers] and [http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=22 Anglo-Welsh Review Archive]</ref>

==References==
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==Publications==
*''Roland Mathias'' (1995) by Sam Adams 
*''The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias'' (2002) (ed. Sam Adams) 
*''The Collected Short Stories of Roland Mathias'' (2001) (ed. Sam Adams

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070819155548/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2871474.ece The Independent: Roland Mathias Obituary]

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[[Category:Welsh Christian pacifists]]
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