Editorials

Channelling Marilynne: Translation as Possession, Envy And Belonging

Gwen Davies interviews herself about her new translation of Caryl Lewis' novel, recently published as The Jeweller.

Editorial for Issue 121

This autumn 2019 issue, New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 winner Peter Goulding writes, with humour and warmth, in his essay 'On Slate', about a group of north-western English punks who escaped the 80s recession to claim dole in Llanberis and climb the ...

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ROSEY BROWN

Adrift

The next week it is stormy; the week after, it snows, but the week after that, Clover is ready to show me the abandoned houses where we can look for books.

‘I’m surprised you haven’t done it before,’ she says. ‘You don’t go anywhere, do you?’

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New Welsh Writing Awards 2020: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting is now open for entry

£1,000 Prize For Winning Writer… New Welsh Writing Awards 2020: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting is now open for entry
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Photo essay about the Wildmill Estate in Bridgend by Ben Absalom with accompanying text by Tim Cooke.

Equipped only with a black iPhone, he enters the estate via a tunnel below a Victorian railway bridge. The road along which he is walking is called Cemetery Road, on account of the enormous graveyard hidden behind a thick tangle of bushes and trees currently looming over his right shoulder...

10/12/2019

Now I Become Myself: A Woman's Voice in Music and Poetry, a Lecture by Rhian Samuel

Demi Roberts traces the career of a transatlantic classical composer from Aberdare, and the factors that helped and hindered her progression as a female professional artist

20/11/2019

Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler, at Swansea’s Elysium Gallery

Demi Roberts notes the compassion inspired by this exploration of hypocritical attitudes to female sexuality and media scapegoating

12/11/2019

Kamil and Francis (presented by Theatr Cadair) by DJ Britton

Demi Roberts is grateful for small lapses of history, on watching this reimagining of an historical encounter between St Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil

New Multimedia

John Morgan admires poetry and photography offering an ecological snapshot that uncovers an historical and archaeological timeline in its focus on a Norfolk Bronze Age timber circle threatened by rising tides more...