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Artist, writer, poet, broadcaster, teacher and healer, born in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire. Thomas had an enterprising and varied career. She was a member of the Welsh Academy; an art teacher; principal of a school of ballroom dancing; the author of four volumes of poetry, poems being published in The New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Poetry Digest; won the Wales Writers’ Group prize at the Cardiff Literature Festival, 1986, with the poem Norton’s Hill; another at the same Festival, 1988, with Sacrificial Lambs; published stories and articles in magazines and newspapers; won the On My Life Arts Council competition for an autobiographical essay, Collier’s Row – 1939, published in 1988; and was awarded the Oriel Book Prize, 1990, the year she had a residency at Rhymney Comprehensive School, visiting many schools in south Wales to teach her particular method of group poems.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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