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Gwylio’r Gwylwr / Gallery Watching
The term ‘reportage’ is usually associated with an illustrative response to acts of war or seminal political happenings… Attracted to the small, the …
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John Barnie on the chaotic order and tangled underbelly of megacities, and the threat of overpopulation to our survival as a species
Read moreMemories of Drawings: Georgia O’Keeffe in Penarth
View from bedroom window of O’Keeffe’s bedroom in New Mexico. One of the works in the exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s drawings in the Turner H …
Read moreSecular, Scriptural or the Heavenly Host: 6 Angel Rules
Truman Capote, it is said, wrote like an angel. Is there a higher compliment? Writing like an angel is synonymous with ease, with perfection of sound …
Read moreIn 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 se …
Read moreHafez 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 …
Read moreThe Legend of Samad Behrangi, the Storyteller
If someday I should face death – as I surely will – it is not what matters. What does matter is what influence my life or death will have on the lives …
Read moreSolo Women Walking – So What?
Last month, a fellow writer contacted me. He found ‘the recent flowering of solo women walkers’ to be an interesting phenomenon and would appreciate m …
Read moreAnna Falcini’s In Between the Folds Are Particles, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
The genesis of Anna Falcini’s In Between the Folds Are Particles was her research into Gwen John’s letters and diaries as part of a residency at the A …
Read moreYew for Two
As the tree-felling season once again approaches, and in Part 2 of his 1960 autobiographical notes (Well laid Hedges and Cider) Jim Pratt moves on fro …
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