Category: Reviews
Edging the City
The book is offered as a series of day walks or bedtime reads: virtual hikes to continue in dreams. He peppers the sections with random history nugget …
Read moreScar Tissue
People in these stories try to patch up their wounds, seeking solace through the certainties of remembered places, or the stability of home…. Scar T …
Read moreReal Hay-on-Wye
It is a town at times at odds with itself, like so many small Welsh towns that attract a lot of incomers, and so, it seems, like Richard Booth himself …
Read morePortraits of Tibet
All worlds are disappearing worlds, but the nomadic life of Tibetans is particularly vulnerable in a society that only values economic progress
Read moreA Voice Coming from Then, Rhondda Burning: Paintings and Poems, Grief Dialogue
There is nothing graphic in this exploration of queer identity and homophobic bullying, but stark suicide data coupled with the poet’s lived experienc …
Read moreDelicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death
[Katy Wix’s] positivity is convincing because it is thoroughly rooted in experience. Her writing in Delicacy is not painful or raw or brutal. It is ca …
Read moreVoyager: Constellations of Memory
Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehe …
Read moreThe Otter Book
Hitherto the provider of pelts for gloves, and the bane of fishers, now a bellweather for river water quality, these shortlived, blubberless, territor …
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