Category: Opinion
Lest We Forget
The recent actions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters tearing down statues of the slave owner Edward Colston in Bristol has drawn public attention …
Read moreThe Price of the Picturesque
The Emptying of Covid-19. It sounds like the title of a Thomas Pynchon novel. But for three long months, the skies cleared, the beaches were clean and …
Read moreShape-shifting and Skin-walking
Writers are shape-shifters and skin-walkers. We’re liars, able to take on stories, dialects, eras, perspectives, genders and species not our own and c …
Read morePairing Wales and South America
Richard Gwyn on the central, serious, importance of make-believe to Latin American life and literature, and the gestation of his festival, Fiction Fie …
Read moreWriting the Mother Tongue
aussenraum / outside area so many languages hide beneath your trees in the secret corners of your alleys and in the well which, in winter, is b …
Read moreSwansea Automatic
How does a colour become a symbolic colour? How does a place become a symbolic place? Why is this book about SWANSEA and not ABERYSTWYTH or LONDON? In …
Read moreCome into the Pomegranate Garden
I first met Haydar Ergülen on the Turkish island of Cunda where we had gathered as twenty-plus translators to work on a novella and on Haydar’s poems. …
Read moreNow I Become Myself: A Woman’s Voice in Music and Poetry, a Lecture by Rhian Samuel
This year’s annual Richard Burton lecture was delivered by Rhian Samuel in the Great Hall of Swansea University’s Bay Campus. Rhian, a widely successf …
Read moreDear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler, at Swansea’s Elysium Gallery
The Elysium gallery is an unsuspected little gem at the top of Swansea’s high street. Neatly nestled between two shops with ‘For Sale’ signs in the wi …
Read moreKamil and Francis (presented by Theatr Cadair) by DJ Britton
My sister and I arrive at the Taliesin Theatre fifteen minutes early, enough time to share a bag of Maltesers. People are clustered into circular grou …
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