After teaching at Bangor he moved to Pembroke Dock in April 1949, to take up a post teaching English at Pembroke Dock County School, under Roland Mathias. That year, at the age of twenty-three, he became a co-founder of the review, "Dock Leaves" (from 1958 renamed "The Anglo-Welsh Review") and from 1949 to 1960 was its first editor. As editor he made contacts with many writers of Welsh and English; and during this time he also began broadcasting for the BBC. These years saw the appearance of his first books of poems – "Poems from the Mountain House" (1950), "The Welsh-Speaking Sea" (1954) and "Requiem for a Poet" (1954).