On Land's Edge

17/06/2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/erthyglau/c8629xpn76lo

70 mlynedd wedi ffilmio Moby Dick, Gareth Rees o Abergwaun sy'n cofio ennill ras rhwyfo yn erbyn sêr y ffilm.

17/06/2026

https://pembrokeshire-herald.com/141005/the-pembrokeshire-shipwright-behind-a-hollywood-rescue-mission/

Another great story with Moby Dick memories! The National Lottery Theatr Gwaun Our History/Ein Hanes Fishguard and Goodwick/Abergwaun ac Wdig

THE STORY of the man who saved the ship that took on Moby Dick in a fight to the death can now be told for the first time. The traditional skills of David “Davi” Owen proved invaluable when John Huston’s classic movie on the great white whale was being filmed off Fishguard in 1954. The […]

12/06/2026

Actors wanted! For this year’s festival On Land’s Edge/Ar Ymyl y Tir, with its Moby Dick theme, we are planning a staged reading of extracts from the play 'Moby Dick – Rehearsed' by Orson Welles – one of the stars of the film. We need six volunteers to read multiple parts. If you’re interested and reasonably confident in reading aloud, please contact [email protected]. Auditions to be held on 29th June at Theatr Gwaun.

08/06/2026

ORGANISERS of Fishguard’s Ar Ymyl y Tir 2026/On Land’s Edge Festival are inviting writers and poets to pay their own tributes to Moby Dick.

This year’s festival (September 25-27) will be celebrating the 70 th anniversary of the cinematic release of John Huston’s classic movie on the great white whale which was largely filmed in
Fishguard Bay.

Details of an adults’ short story writing competition as well as a young persons’ poetry competition have now been announced.
Writers are invited to submit their own pieces of fictional prose – up to 3,000 words – that respond in some way to Moby Dick: the novel or the film.
They may choose a reworking of one of the characters or one of the incidents in the narrative; or
alternately explore the same themes the novel raises or about a character’s own experience relating
to reading the novel or seeing the film.
The competition will be judged by Robert Harries, the fiction editor of Folding Rock, Wales’ leading magazine of creative prose (foldingrock.com).
A prize of £100 will be awarded for the best entry. There will be an entry fee of £5, with all
proceeds going towards literary events at Ar Ymyl y Tir 2026/On Land’s Edge.
The winners will be announced at the festival’s final event on Sunday, September 27.
Young people are also invited to write poems on the theme of sea creatures based on their own
experiences and observations.
These do not have to be epic adventures like Captain Ahab’s, but ordinary encounters with crustaceans, cetaceans, fish, seabirds and other sea life which can provide experiences that work
well in poetry.
The judges will be looking for truthfulness and clarity in these poems about sea creatures.
There is a £30 prize for the best entries in English and in Welsh and runner-up prizes of £20.
The winners will be announced at the festival’s final event on Sunday, September 27.
The closing date for entries in both competitions is 5pm on Friday, July 17.
To enter please visit onlandsedge.co.uk/short-story-2026 or onlandsedge.co.uk/poetry-2026

Theatr Gwaun Poetry Competition 2026 Young Persons’ Poetry Competition – ‘Sea Creatures’ In 2026, the Festival is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the filming in Fishguard of Moby Dick, the blockbuster film based on the novel by Herman Melville describing Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest ...

08/06/2026

Eleni, mae'r wyl yn dathlu 70 mlynedd ers sefydlu Moby Dick, y film Hollywood gyda'r seren Gregory Peck o'r 1950au, affilmiwyd o amgylch Abergwaun ac Wdig. Fe'i haddaswyd o'r nofel gan Herman Melville: stori epig am ymgais obsesiynol Capten Ahab am ddial yn erbyn morfil gwyn enfawr a oedd wedi brathu ei goes i ffwrdd ar fordaith flaenorol.

Yn ôl D H Lawrence hwn yw 'un o'r Ilyfrau mwya rhyfeddol yn y byd' a'r

'llyfr gorau erioed am y môr."

Rydym yn gwahodd awduron i gyflwyno eu darnau eu hunain o

ryddiaith ffuglennol - hyd at 3,000 o eiriau - sy'n ymateb mewn rhyw ffordd i Moby Dick: y nofel neu'r ffilm. Cewch ddehongli y testun mewn sawl ffordd: gallwch ddewis alweithio un o'r cymeriadau neu un ddigwyddiadau y naratif; gallech archwilio un o themâu'r nofel; neu sôn am brofiad yn dilyn darllen y nofel neu weld y ffilm... Mae posibiliadau diddiwedd.

Robert Harries, golygydd ffuglen Folding Rock, prif gylchgrawn rhyddiaith greadigol Cymru, fydd yn beirniadu'r gystadleuaeth: gweler foldingrock.com.

Dyfernir gwobr o £100 am y gwaith gorau. Mae ffi o £5 i gymryd rhan yn y gystadleuaeth, gyda'r holl elw yn mynd tuag at ddarparu digwyddiadau Ilenyddol yn Ar Ymyl y Tir 2026 On Land's Edge. Cyhoeddir yr enillwyr yn nigwyddiad olaf yr Wyl ddydd Sul 27 Medi.

Y dyddiad cau ar gyfer ceisiadau yw dydd Gwener 17 Gorffennaf 2026, am 5yh.

Sganiwch y Cod QR neu ewch i'n gwefan yn onlandsedge.co.uk/short-story-2026 am delerau ac amodau Ilawn.

Theatr Gwaun Short Story Competition 2026 Moby Dick: Adults’ Short Story Writing This year, the festival is celebrating the 70th anniversary of Moby Dick, the Hollywood film starring 1950s heartthrob Gregory Peck, which was filmed around Fishguard and Goodwick. It was adapted from the novel by Her...

04/06/2026

Competition time!

18/05/2026

Diolch Herald

THE NIECE of a member of the crack stunt team who worked on the 1956 production of Moby Dick says she is thrilled that the movie is being celebrated by Fishguard’s Ar Ymyl y Tir/On Land’s Edge Festival in September – 70 years after its cinematic release. Francesca Bosenius, of Llangwm, fondly ...

18/05/2026

Diolch Western Telegraph

THE niece of a member of the crack stunt team who worked on the 1956 production of Moby Dick says she is thrilled that the movie is being celebrated…

15/05/2026

THE NIECE of a member of the crack stunt team who worked on Moby Dick says she is thrilled that the movie is being celebrated by Fishguard’s Ar Ymyl y Tir/On Land’s Edge Fes-tival in September – 70 years after its cinematic release.

Francesca Bosenius fondly recalls some of the escapades of her late “Uncle Ted” – Edu-ardo (‘Ted’) Palmieri – an accomplished horse rider and stuntman who worked on several top films.

He was immortalised in a famous scene from John Huston’s classic 1956 Moby Dick movie for his portrayal of the doomed lookout who loses his footing and plunges into the ocean from the Pequod’s top mast, never to re-surface.
Speaking after witnessing the scene for the first time, Francesca laughed as she said: “That was some drop!
“But then that's just the sort of thing uncle Ted would do!"
Another stuntman on Moby Dick was John Sullivan, who would go on to have a small, but memorable speaking role in the 1964 classic movie Zulu as the commander of a cavalry troop fleeing the disaster at Isandhlwana.
During several months of filming in dangerous sea conditions off Fishguard, Sullivan worked alongside other uncredited stuntmen including Joe Powell, who would also appear in Zulu as Sgt Windridge.
According to local legend it was Sullivan who dived head-first from the top mast of the Pe-quod into the waters of Fishguard Bay in order to win a bet struck with Huston on the last day of filming.
However, other sources claim a local man named Texas Jones also made the leap!

Mae nith aelod o'r tîm styntiau gwych a weithiodd ar Moby Dick wrth ei bodd bod y ffilm yn cael ei dathlu gan Ŵyl Ar Ymyl y Tir/On Land’s Edge Abergwaun ym mis Medi – 70 mlynedd ar ôl ei rhyddhau.

Mae Francesca Bosenius yn cofio'n annwyl rai o anturiaethau ei diweddar “Ewythr Ted” – Eduardo (‘Ted’) Palmieri – marchog ceffylau a styntiwr dawnus a weithiodd ar sawl ffilm o'r radd flaenaf.

Cafodd ei anfarwoli mewn golygfa enwog o ffilm glasurol John Huston, 1956, Moby Dick, am ei bortread o'r gwyliwr truenus sy'n colli ei afael ac yn plymio i'r cefnfor o fast uchaf y Pequod, heb ailymddangos.

Ar ôl gweld yr olygfa am y tro cyntaf, chwarddodd Francesca wrth iddi ddweud: “Roedd hwnna’n gwymp a hanner!

“Ond dyna’r math o beth fyddai ewythr Ted yn ei wneud!
Styntiwr arall ar Moby Dick oedd John Sullivan. Byddai’n mynd ymlaen i gael rôl siarad fach ond cofiadwy, yn y ffilm glasurol Zulu ym 1964 fel cadlywydd milwyr marchoglu oedd yn ffoi o'r drychineb yn Isandhlwana.

Yn ystod sawl mis o ffilmio mewn amodau peryglus ar y môr mawr oddi ar Abergwaun, gweithiodd Sullivan ochr yn ochr â styntwyr eraill heb gredyd, gan gynnwys Joe Powell, a fyddai hefyd yn ymddangos yn Zulu fel Sgt Windridge.

Yn ôl y chwedl leol, plymiodd Sullivan â'i ben yn gyntaf, o fast uchaf y Pequod i Fae Abergwaun, er mwyn ennill bet ar ddiwrnod olaf y ffilmio.

05/05/2026

Great shout out on BBC Radio Wales this morning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vszn
Listen at 55.35 for festival committee member Mike Lewis talking about the search for schoolboy rowers 70 years on!

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