Category: Reviews
Take a Bite: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology
Take a Bite presents the top twelve entries in the 2021 Rhys Davies Short Story award, and its introduction promises us fiction that is ‘alive with ch …
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Pain Sluts
Before the 1900s, people used to assemble makeshift lamps called sluts. The OED definition offers supporting evidence from Anne Ellis’ Life of an Ordi …
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Dead Relatives
Lucie McKnight Hardy’s debut novel, Water Shall Refuse Them (Dead Ink, 2019), was a slow-burning folk horror set in a small Welsh village during the i …
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The Venetian Legacy
If you like your thrillers to be hard-boiled, noirish, violent, full of damaged cops and psycho crims, and action-packed from the prologue to the post …
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Forms of Exile: Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Poetry is the place where meaning remains an open question. When engaging with a poem, the reader is offered a rare gift: the freedom to interpret con …
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Inhale / Exile
Abeer Ameer’s vigorous poetry collection Inhale/Exile is an epic and a storybook in one. Epic, because the single poems are pieces of a whole body, st …
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The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology of Contemporary Welsh Poetry
The art of the poetry anthology is a competitive arena. You have the celeb selections (Amis on Larkin, Cerys Matthews on her whims), the ‘authoritativ …
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Lord of All the Dead
Many families have a mythic figure somewhere down the line. Mythic in this context, though, usually means larger than life. They are the relative or a …
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Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind the Screen
In 1990, Elaine Morgan ended her forty-year career as a script writer for television and radio with a piece for Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She was sevent …
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The End of the Yellow House
When Chief Superintendent Lepinov’s bloated, battered body is discovered in a well with a padded wooden box placed over his bashed-in head on the open …
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