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We Have to Leave the Earth
Award-winning poet, academic and editor Carolyn Jess-Cooke explores climate change, parenthood and feminist activism in her new collection, We Have to Leave the Earth. ‘Now’ sets the tone of her third book of poetry before the reader journeys through Songs from the Arctic and the dying world her chi …
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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives
The Museum of Portable Sound will bring you into contact with an extensive collection of strange sonic entities. You can listen to an old MiniDisc player, a vintage Ukranian radio and an iPhone full of esoteric field recordings. I thought about this museum a lot while reading Jude Rogers’ new memoir …
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In Praise of Marc Almond, True Advocate of World Culture
Beyond a community of devoted fans who follow his footsteps everywhere, a valuable, even precious side to Marc Almond’s work remains a little-known secret. The general public knows the sweet enfant terrible from Southport who reached the top of the charts around the globe with ‘Tainted Love’ and som …
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Four Dervishes
Four Dervishes is Welsh–Pakistani writer and teacher Hammad Rind’s debut novel. He is a polyglot whose love of languages and Eastern literature shines through in this beguiling book, which incorporates elements of the dastan, an ornate form of oral history hailing from Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and …
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The Village
Cities are hip. Towns are gritty. Hamlets are romantic. Capitals are – snooty accent coming – capital. Villages are problematic. What do you think of when someone says ‘village’. Idiots? A green, for men in whites playing cricket? No shops, no post office, no BAMEs, no youth? Perhaps nimbys, or twee …
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Welsh [Plural]:Essays on the Future of Wales
This snazzy-looking book is subtitled Essays on the Future of Wales, but many of the nineteen short pieces collected therein are bits of memoir, diary entries and freeform reflections – and where the authors linger on the recent past, the ancient one seeps through. This is inevitable but also a pote …
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Planet Blues
It’s early winter. I’ve just been for a walk in a field. It’s part of the large estate that surrounds my home – a rented, retired 1830s farmhouse – an …
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Books for Alien Girls: Fiction and Neurodivergence
As a young reader, I devoured books about mad girls. Fiction and memoir; all kinds of disorders. Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation; Wasted and Life- …
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The Art of Blue Woman
Blue Woman (published by Weatherglass Books), is the fictional biography of a Welsh painter, Rose Hartwood. Her career is a long one, stretching from …
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Let Me Tell You What I Saw
The effect of this long poem (an abridged dual-language Arabic-English version of the 550-page poem ‘Uruk’s Anthem’) could be described as a shellshoc …
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Hafez and Jones: Poets United for Peace
(Above) frieze at University College, Oxford chapel showing Sir William Jones taking notes from Hindi speakers and scholars, (top) roof of Hafez tomb …
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The Making – and Unmanning – of the Welsh Collier
MIners’ houses, Trealaw, Rhondda Valley by Isabel Alexander, from Miner’s Day. Miner’s Day by BL Coombes, with illustrations [‘Rhondda images’] …
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The Listening Project
The Listening Project follows the life of a woman called Imogen, whose difficulties arise both from her hearing loss and from family tensions over her …
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The Bloodless Boy
London, New Year’s Day 1678, twelve years after the Great Fire and eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell’s republic and the restoration of the mo …
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