Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>I hear your bold blackbird, that slow singer,<br>alone at my desk yet walking with you<br>through your valleys and hills, that shining<br>stream bubbling notes of your music<br>your pure Welsh music…</p><p>—Sheila Templeton, “For R.S. Thomas”<br>published in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30</p><p>The Welsh poet Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913–2000) was born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>, 29 March.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RSThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSThomas</span></a></p>