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((Short description|Welsh poet))
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[[File:Harri Webb by Julian Sheppard.jpeg|thumb]]
'''Harri Webb''' (7 September 1920 – 31 December 1994) was a [[Welsh poetry|Welsh poet]], [[Welsh nationalism|Welsh nationalist]], journalist and librarian.

==Early life==
Harri Webb was born on 7 September 1920 in [[Swansea]],<ref name="independent">((cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-harri-webb-1566453.html|title=Obituary: Harri Webb|date=23 October 2011|website=The Independent|access-date=9 October 2021))</ref> at 45 Tŷ Coch Road in [[Sketty]], but before he was two the family moved to [[Castle, Swansea#Sandfields|Catherine Street]], nearer the city centre.<ref name=":1">((Cite web|title=Remembering Harri Webb 1920 -1994 – Hanes Plaid Cymru|url=http://www.hanesplaidcymru.org/cofio-harri-webb-1920-1994/?lang=en|access-date=2021-12-26|language=en-US))</ref>

==University==
Webb grew up in a working class environment. In 1938 he won a Local Education Authority [[scholarship]], and went to the [[University of Oxford]] to study languages, specialising in [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] – a period of his life to which he made virtually no reference in his writings. While he was at university his studies were affected by the death of his mother; he graduated with a third class degree in 1941.((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

==World War II==
At the outbreak of World War II, Webb immediately volunteered for the [[Royal Navy]], and served as an interpreter which included work with the Free French in the Mediterranean region, with periods in [[Algeria]] and [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], and with action in the north Atlantic. He was demobilised in [[Scotland]] in 1946.((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

==Return to Wales==
Following his return to [[Wales]] in 1947 his life was outwardly uneventful. For some eight years he worked in temporary jobs, including working for the journalist [[Keidrych Rhys]] in [[Carmarthen]], and a brief period in [[Cheltenham]].((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

In 1954 Webb moved to [[Merthyr Tydfil]] to work as librarian in its [[Dowlais]] area<ref name=":3" /> and, in his own words, to fully absorb himself into the national experience. Two years later he published ''[[Dic Penderyn]] and the Merthyr Rising of 1831'', a pamphlet in which he somewhat imaginatively retells the story of [[Merthyr Riots#The Merthyr Riots|the rebellion]].((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

While in Merthyr Tydfil, Webb lived in the [[Squatting|squat]] Garth Newydd, an old house that had been given to the town during the Depression, and subsequently seemingly belonged to nobody; when Webb first moved in it was occupied by a group of pacifists. He lived in the house with [[Meic Stephens]] and others, and it became almost a nationalist commune, broadcasting the 'Free Wales' pirate radio station.<ref name=":3">((Cite web|last=Llywelyn|first=Malcolm|date=2020-09-06|title=Harri Webb 100 years later ((!)) Centenary|url=https://www.walesartsreview.org/centenary-a-tribute-to-harri-webb/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Wales Arts Review|language=en-US))</ref>

After working in Dowlais for ten years 'In defiance of any rational career structure' ((Citation needed|date=December 2021)), in 1964 Webb began work at [[Mountain Ash Library]] in the [[Cynon Valley]]<ref name=":0" /> which previously had been the largest borough in Wales without a public library service. He made innovations such as lending LPs, and buying books and periodicals to appeal to a female readership who were gaining more independence in this era, to some criticism from those wary of modernisation.<ref>((cite book|last=Tippings|first=Lisa|title=Secret Swansea|publisher=Amberley Publishing|year=2019|isbn=9781445688671|url=((Google books|6rCIDwAAQBAJ|plainurl=yes))))</ref> He continued to work for Mountain Ash Library until 1974.<ref name=":0">((Cite web|title=Harri Webb papers finding aid|url=https://archives.library.wales/downloads/harri-webb-papers-2.pdf|access-date=December 26, 2021|website=National Library of Wales))</ref> The library has a memorial plaque dedicated to Webb installed in 1997 reading 'poet and librarian, bardd a llyfrgellydd, 1920-1994' unveiled by [[Meic Stephens]] and [[Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies|Gwilym Prys Davies]].<ref name=":2">((Cite web|title=Unveiling of Harri Webb Memorial Plaque in|url=https://archive.rctcbc.gov.uk/view-item?i=23707|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Rhondda Cynon Taff Library Service - Digital Archive|language=en))</ref>

==Written work==
Webb's first collection of poetry, ''The Green Desert'', was published in 1969. Webb carried on living in Garth Newydd and commuting to the next valley until 1972, when he moved to [[Cwmbach]] near Aberdare, before finally retiring in 1974, the year that ''A Crown For Branwen'' appeared.((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

This was followed by ''Rampage and Revel'' in 1977, and finally ''Poems and Points'' in 1983, soon after which Webb virtually ceased to write poetry, suffering a serious [[stroke]] in 1985.((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

Webb's poetry is marked by his radical Welsh nationalist politics and a quasi-Christian sensibility. In form it was often simple and comic, in order that it might influence a wide audience.((Citation needed|date=December 2021))

==Later life==
Webb remained in [[Cwmbach]] before moving into a nursing home in Swansea shortly before his death on New Year's Eve 1994. His funeral was held on 6 January 1995<ref name="independent"/> at St. Mary's Church in [[Pennard]], [[Gower Peninsula|Gower]], where his grave is to be found.

==Memorials==
In addition to the plaque at Mountain Ash Library<ref name=":2" /> Ty Harri Webb<ref>((Cite web|title=Geograph:: Cylch Meithrin Seren Fach, Mountain Ash © Jaggery|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3853063|access-date=2021-12-26|website=www.geograph.org.uk|language=en))</ref> on Dyffryn Road in Mountain Ash is named after Webb on the same road as the old library.

Merthyr Tydfil Library have also held activities to celebrate Webb's life and promote young people's poetry in their programming.<ref>((Cite web|title=Welsh Public Library Standards 2017-2020: Annual assessment report|url=https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2021-04/public-library-service-annual-reports-2019-to-2020-merthyr-tydfil.pdf|access-date=December 26, 2021|website=gov.wales))</ref>

A ceremony was held at Webb's grave marking 100 years since his birth on 7 September 2020 by Guto Ap Gwent and Prys Morgan amongst others.<ref name=":1" />

==Bibliography==
* ''[[Dic Penderyn]] and the [[Merthyr Rising]] of 1831'' (1956) ((small|((OCLC|815680381))))
* [with M. Stephens, P. Griffith] ''Triad'' (1963)
* ''Our National Anthem'' (1964)
* ''The Green Desert: collected poems 1950-1969'' (1969; repr. 1976)
* ''A Crown for Branwen'' (1974)
* ''Rampage and Revel'' (1977)
* ''Poems and Points'' (1983)
* ''Tales from Wales'' (1984)
* ''Collected Poems'', ed. M. Stephens (1995)
* ''No Halfway House: selected political journalism 1950-1977'', ed. M. Stephens (1997)
* ''A Militant Muse'' (1998)
* ''Looking up England's arsehole'', ed. M. Stephens (2000)
* ''The Stone Face and other poems'', ed. M. Stephens (2005)

==References==
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==Further reading==
*((cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Brian |authorlink1=Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris |title=Harri Webb |date=1993 |publisher=University of Wales Press |isbn=9780708312254))
*((cite news |title=Obituary: Harri Webb |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-harri-webb-1566453.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=3 January 1995 |location=London))
*[https://www.walesartsreview.org/centenary-a-tribute-to-harri-webb/ Wales Arts Review] ''Centenary | A Tribute to Harri Webb'', 6 September 2020.
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