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Article: Poetry and photographs capture Gower 'too beautiful perhaps for its own good' A bloody history, a brighter future.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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Byline: Robin Turner
A POET and photographer have teamed up to capture the beauty and history of the Gower peninsula in a new book.
The book, Gower, by Nigel Jenkins and photographer Daniel Pearl celebrates everything from the "aromatic bracken" of the peninsula's inland to the glorious sands of its 19 spectacular bays.
And Swansea University-based poet Jenkins, who was born and raised in Gower, also harks backs to darker days when Norman invaders practised what we would now call ethnic cleansing.
He said to look closely into the medieval ...