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    Refugee Wales: Syrian Voices

    I feel so homesick to the extent that I am sinking. I sometimes meet people from other communities getting together with their relatives and family. I crave this kind of getting together. I wish that I could have my big family here.

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    An Indigo Summer

    The love and respect that Orrell expresses for her mother is wonderful to read. The author celebrates women like her mother who balance family life with artistic practice

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    The Sandstone City

    A landscape in which the dead are able to interact with the living, helping them to understand a world in which the consequences of ‘history’, both personal and political, continue to resonate in the present…

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    The Luck

    There is a country-folk matter-of-factness and a serenity of pace that chimes with – seems borne of – the environment and the circumstances of this family we get to know so intimately

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    Breakfast with Bogart

    No brandy. No toupee. / And not a word. Sullen, head in the paper, you’d think he was reading his own obituary…

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    On Deciding to Sketch a Star

    Saturn I plucked, pale as an apple, out of the sky, though getting it in was harder, dancer’s skirts out in a whirl like that…

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After Hours

Poem by Sam Baker about sex, money, alcohol, hate crime and violent assault

PUBLISHED ON: 27/04/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

There’s no one to say how’s / the wife before they remember it’s a husband and promise me it’s just an expression where / they’re from and then rememb …

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Defiance

A poem by Rosebud Ben-Oni about family, claustrophobia and natural history

PUBLISHED ON: 27/04/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

the queen is a mystery / ….being pushed / by kin further, / & further in, / she can’t move an inch

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Today’s Hero

Poem by Mark Blayney about grandiosity and flight

PUBLISHED ON: 27/04/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

He looks / like Superman before they remove the background

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This Is Not Who We Are

Now Rwanda is in the news again for all the wrong reasons, Siân Collins assesses a compelling, unsettling novel about Rwanda, resilience and how power uses language to drive wedges through humanity

PUBLISHED ON: 28/03/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

Buchaillard gives us closure of sorts at the end of the book, an optimistic vision of Rwanda witnessed through the healing of a family, but in our cur …

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Aperture: Life Through a Fleet Street Lens

Chris Moss admires the endangered job of photojournalist

PUBLISHED ON: 28/03/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

John Downing was a brilliant photojournalist. Over five decades, the Llanelli-born snapper worked in more than 100 countries and visited every contine …

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Wellness Culture: How the Wellness Movement has Been Used to Empower, Profit and Misinform

Ed Garland on a nonfiction title that shows how the idea of wellness came to demonise mainstream medicine and health services

PUBLISHED ON: 28/03/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

In 1885, an anti-vaccination march in Leicester attracted a crowd of at least 80,000 people. They thought that vaccines were ‘unnatural’ and therefore …

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Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973

Elaine Margolin examines a provocative, compelling and rigorous narrative by an acclaimed Jewish biographer who teases out the ‘otherness’ of the artist’s Spanish identity in France

PUBLISHED ON: 28/03/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

What would encourage an acclaimed biographer like seventy-five-year-old Annie Cohen-Solal to repeatedly pardon unpardonable behavior? She does this ti …

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The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea

The female Welsh navigators Cranogwen and Ellen Edwards have starring roles in this entertaining and bird-filled impression of a rectangular-shaped seaspace with Irish and Welsh ports at its corners, writes Catherine Duigan

PUBLISHED ON: 28/03/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

Fundamentally, The Turning Tide is about the many-fathoms-deep relationship between Ireland and Wales….

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