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Tough Women: Kendal Mountain Festival
The Kendal Mountain Festival is on now and on demand until 31 December 2020. Tickets from £5.50, with some free events. On Friday 20 November at the Kendal Mountain Festival, I was lucky enough to attend an event called Tough Women, which introduced four incredible explorers, from a collection of t …
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Jan Morris 1926-2020
Wales’ most celebrated writer, Jan Morris, has died, aged 94. The news comes at the end of a grim year during which her guiding passion – travel – has been on hold. If reading has been a survival strategy for many people during 2020, then for those of us who have itchy feet, a viable solution was t …
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How Do You Run a Virtual Retreat?
How do you run a virtual retreat? When the premise of what you do is gathering writers together in beautiful Snowdonia to escape their day jobs and eat, drink, talk and think about writing, how can you do this online? The answer turned out to be very well. It took a little adjustment from the writer …
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Mai by Georgia Ruth
Evocation of locales that hold a personal connection to artists is a common feature in the medium of music. Rich soundscapes will frequently echo places, times and atmospheres, either by alluding to them through lyrics and instrumentation, or as a result of being produced in a particular environment …
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The Man in Black. Peter Moore: Wales’ Worst Serial Killer
Like many crime stories, this one begins with a body – Anthony Davies, forty, found on Pensarn Beach by a dogwalker on the morning of 18 December, 1995. A van owned by local cinema-owner Peter Moore was spotted nearby. The police had had a tip-off he was the killer. Circumstantial evidence included …
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The Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage
Jim Phelan, in collection of Ian Cutler An extensive list of words for people of no fixed abode in the introduction to this book reminds us how confused and how jaundiced modern society is. Beggar, Bum, Indigent and Vagrant are invariably derogatory, most often uttered with a pinch of contemp …
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Tiger Girl
Tiger Girl shimmers with beauty and rage: for every exquisite description of a bird or tiger, there’s an incident of cruelty and horror, unfolded on t …
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Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation
Edward O Wilson, as readers of the New Welsh Review will know, is one of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists, an entomologist with an unrivall …
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The Distance
Great boxing matches are ‘allegories authored in blood’, wrote Budd Schulberg. It’s quoted late on in Ivan Vladislavíc’s sixth novel, which, among oth …
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The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country
The Northern Question is the opening shot of a campaign to place the North-South divide back at the centre of thinking about England. Belying its orig …
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Wild Persistence
From the very first line, ‘A joy of noise’, there’s humour and revelry in Katrina Naomi’s third full-length collection. There’s pleasure taken in a lo …
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Well-laid Hedges and Cider
‘Coming to Mrs Wallet’s?’ Tom Johns was lighting his bicycle lamp, shielding the rather damp match that he had taken from a small tin and struck on hi …
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Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground c1790–1965
Some British seaside resorts double as lazy jokes. Skegness, Blackpool and Clacton-on-Sea are names that trip off the tongue when there’s chatter abou …
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Art for Wales: The Legacy of Derek Williams
According to John Berger, when we see a work of art, ‘We leave it, carrying away in our consciousness something which we didn’t have before…. What we …
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