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GOWER, JON

71b Romilly Road, Treganna, Caerdydd, CF5 1FL
Email: jongower@rocketmail.com


Jon Gower is a producer with Boomerang, one of Wales’ most dynamically creative TV and radio companies. He was BBC Wales’ Arts and Media correspondent from 2000-2006, when he also presented First Hand, BBC Radio Wales’ arts programme. Jon has also worked, variously, as public affairs officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and as a current affairs journalist for HTV. He has written books about travel and local history, including An Island Called Smith (Gomer, 2001), about a disappearing island in Chesapeake Bay, which was a John Morgan Award winner. He has edited a further four volumes, as well as writing a collection of short stories, Big Fish (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2000).

Jon is currently working on a critical biography of the American actor Steve Buscemi and has recently published a book about his home town, Llanelli, for Seren's ‘Real Wales’ series. He is an English language judge for the 2011 Wales Book of the Year.

Reviews:
With respect to An Island Called Smith (Gomer, 2001)


”… Being, according to a local poet, ’the greatest poets/who never wrote a line’, the islanders are fortunate to find in Jon Gower a chronicler with finely tuned antennae for the poetry that is in both words and things – pompanos, loblollies, mudminnows, mummichogs – and a poet’s exuberant facility with language to offer outward the wonders he discovers. Selected as one of the twelve titles in this year’s ’Summer Reading’ promotion, it’s an ideal volume to tuck into your holiday suitcase. To travel to Smith in person would be great, but the experience of this book – whisper it – might even be better…”
Nigel Jenkins


Selected Publications:
Big Fish (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2000)
An Island Called Smith (Gomer, 2001)
Dala'r Llanw (Gomer, 2009) / Uncharted (Gomer, 2010)
Real Llanelli (Seren, 2009)

Contributed to:
Homeland (editor) (Gomer, 1996)
A Year in a Small Country (editor) (Gomer, 1999) 
Wales in Our Own Image (co–editor) (In Books, 1999)
I Know Another Way: From Tintern to St. David’s (editor) (Gomer, 2002)



 

Big Fish (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2000)

An entertaining collection of 20 short stories full of zany humour, wild wit and fantasy by a popular journalist and broadcaster, some stories having appeared previously in other publications.

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An Island Called Smith (Gomer, 2001)

The inhabitants of Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay, USA are nearly all descended from Welsh and Cornish immigrants of the 17th century. It provides a fascinating account of the author’s stay on the island, recording the rich and unique human and natural life, history, religion and customs that are slowly disappearing as the island is eroded by rising sea levels.

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