ABSTRACT
This chapter considers issues of identity and nationhood through the prism of politics and power as generated by the poetical work of RS Thomas in his relation to Wales. Though perhaps peripheral to more central political and social discourse concerning identity and nationhood, the messages and powers of poetry – whether as barometer of immanent sensibilities or idiosyncrasies – are strong and intriguing in the context of a country in the process of developing a new sense of self, with quite conscious structures of development in the wake of devolving powers.1
