Hywel Griffiths is a poet and chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith. Born in Carmarthen, he won the chair at the Urdd Eisteddfod in 2003 and 2007. A geography and mathematics graduate at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he has also studied the rivers of Wales for a PhD degree. A volume of his poetry, Banerog, is published by Y Lolfa.

If at first you don’t succeed

Communism has failed once, but capitalism has failed many times, a new book by Tariq Ali contends. One of Wales’ best young poets assesses its arguments in a review that first appeared in Celyn, the Welsh green left review magazine