Mathew Jarvis is a professor at the University of Aberystwyth and co-chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English. His research interests include the construction of Welsh place and space in literature and environmental approaches to literature.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the prize-winning poet Ruth Bidgood, a writer who is best known for her long-term literary engagement with the landscape and communities of the mid-Wales region she has made her home.