Tag: America
Dare to Do: Taking on the Planet by Bike and Boat
Dare to Do is a fast-paced, engaging travel memoir by rower and adventurer,Sarah Outen, following her journey as she cycles, kayaks and rows across Eu …
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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 …
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Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son: New Welsh Writing Awards & Readers’ Poll 2018: Aberystwyth University Prize for an Essay Collection from New Welsh Review o …
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The Trees Won’t Tell
‘You quit followin’ me, Erroll Harris!’ I call over my shoulder, clutching my books to my chest. The girls told me over lunch, fellas like a chase and …
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A Love Letter to Wales
The Nearest Faraway Place is a story about grief. Super massive grief. The type that takes hold of the heart and the brain and freezes them both. But …
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Honey Poo Poo and the Sad Songs of the Homesick
Depending on how you came across her, Judith Owen could strike you as several different people. Her range of work throughout her career is like a hall …
Read moreContemporary Literature from Wales
Gwen Davies on recent fiction in English from Wales, Robin Chapman on the rejection of politicisation in Welsh-language literature since devolution, S …
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Diffusions Photography Festival – Looking for America
EE Cummings wrote that ‘America is always on the move’ and so is Google Earth’s strange little van that seems to be following me around Cardiff; it ha …
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Your Brother’s Blood (The Walkin’ Trilogy)
There’s a moment in Stoppard’s screenplay of Shakespeare in Love when the mature playwright encounters an aspiring John Webster and they discuss the f …
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We Did Not Know Yet
We didn’t know yet that we were immigrants too, as we watched West Side Story when we first came to America. We didn’t know how we would miss our isla …
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