Fitzrovia

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Fitzrovia

(fɪtsˈrəʊvɪə)

(Placename) informal the district north of Oxford Street, London, around Fitzroy Square and its pubs, noted in the 1930s and 40s as a haunt of poets

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Much of Welsh literary culture had previously been focused on London - Thomas may have created the enduring fictional world of Llareggub, but he was arguably as much a Fitzrovian poet as a Welsh one.

The Welsh poet who fused touch and sight into sound; Dr Zoe Skoulding sings the praises of Welsh poet - and lesser-known contemporary of Dylan Thomas - Lynette Roberts

From his Fitzrovian redoubt in London, the ugly-lovely Clydach Vale of childhood must have appeared to the successful Davies as a place washed by nostalgia of its more unprepossessing features.

AUTHOR'SNOTES; What makes a Welsh writer? Nigel Jarrett explores this "historical identity problem" in the vein of Rhys Davies in a collection of short stories, Funderland

The Fitzrovians revel in the glamour of a bygone era, from costume and performance to props.