Like the Welsh countryside he writes about, Thomas's poetry is often harsh and austere, written in plain, somber language, with a meditative quality. Runcie describes Thomas's style as consisting of "simple words and short nouns, nouns of such authentic meaning that they rarely need modifiers, moving as beats at a controlled pace in stress accent metre—a constant technique to effect a constant tone, his own inexhaustibly haunting tone that lingers like sounds in a darkness." Writing in Eight Contemporary Poets, Calvin Bedient also notes this spare style, claiming that "Thomas puts little between himself and his subject.... His poems are ascetic.... To seem at once lean and sensuous, transparent and deeply crimsoned, is part of his distinction." Thomas reveals his stylistic intentions in Words and the Poet:"A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes." with the furies. A mirror’s temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the veins. Its camera is an X-ray. It is a chalice Davis, William V. (ed.), Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R. S. Thomas (University of Arkansas Press, 1993) The most comprehensive critical bibliography of R. S. Thomas is the Oxford Bibliographies Online resource (access through library e-resources).

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Reynolds, Oliver (11 October 2021). "Review: Disco Elysium: The Final Cut - Still An Absolute Triumph On Switch". Nintendo Life . Retrieved 19 March 2023. The player character wakes up in a trashed hostel room in Martinaise with a severe hangover and no memory of his own identity due to an extreme case of drug-induced amnesia. He meets Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, who informs him that they have been assigned to investigate the death of a hanged man in an empty lot behind the hostel. The victim's identity is unclear and initial analysis of the scene indicates that he was lynched by a group of people. The detectives explore the rest of the district, following up on leads while helping residents with a variety of tasks. In the course of the investigation, the player character learns that he is a decorated RCM detective, Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor [nb 1] Harrier "Harry" Du Bois. Harry experienced an event several years ago that began a mid-life crisis, and on the night he was assigned to the hanged man case he finally snapped and embarked on a self-destructive three-day bender around Martinaise. Partis, Danielle (9 November 2022). "Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM confirms former employees were fired for misconduct". GamesIndustry.biz . Retrieved 9 November 2022.

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The title is engaging and odd, with a lot of promise. The small section I had the opportunity to play hinted at a potentially beautiful and mysterious full-size game, with a large investigative element, relying on player choices. Motion capture has been used to add a realism to the characters while the detail which went into Daniel's childhood home reminded me of my grandmother's house, the typical suburban home which hasn't changed since the '50s. Germinal" by Zola, play "No Truce With The Furies", and repurpose the catastrophe you've become for the good of History. The son of a sailor, Thomas spent much of his childhood in British port towns where he and his mother would live while his father was away at sea. His early education began late and was only sporadically pursued until his father found steady work with a ferry boat company operating between Wales and Ireland, and the family was able to settle in the Welsh town of Caergybi. After graduating from school Thomas studied for the Anglican priesthood, a career first suggested to him by his mother. As he recounts in his article for the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series ( CAAS), "Shy as I was, I offered no resistance." Wales, Matt (14 March 2023). "Disco Elysium studio says lawsuits from former members have been resolved". Eurogamer . Retrieved 14 March 2023.a b Altküla, Magnus (22 October 2019). "Kaur Kender on new computer game: It's like 'Truth and Justice' ". Postimees . Retrieved 29 December 2019. a b Bailey, Dustin (9 November 2022). "Fired Disco Elysium devs allege fraud, while the studio alleges toxic management". GamesRadar . Retrieved 9 November 2022. Many of Thomas's poems set his farming characters against the bleak and forbidding landscape of Wales, focusing on the difficulties of rural existence. "Many of his poems offer an unsparingly bleak view of man," Knapp admits, "and ... even in those cases where hope seems clearly offered, the elements of the drama are still exceedingly grim.... The basic postulate is a kind of minimal man, struggling to endure in his little universe.... Mostly the visual aspect of the poetry concerns lone figures, working the stony fields, walking along the roads." Comparing Thomas's work with that of Robert Frost, who also wrote of rural life, C. A. Runcie of Poetry Australia notes that Thomas's "farmers and labourers and hillmen, unlike Frost's, are not philosophers. Thought has been worked out of them year after year. Only life and a little, obtuse, silent feeling remain." From 1967, at Aberdaron on the Llŷn peninsula, Thomas pushed his theological speculation and his search for the ‘absent god’ into disconcerting new territories. This session will focus on the mythopoeic terror of H’m (1972), Thomas’s ‘quarrel with technology’ and his search for the god of the gaps . . . Too Brave to Dream: Encounters with Modern Art, ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies, Bloodaxe Books, 2016.