Tag: anthology
Painting the Beauty Queens Orange: Women’s Lives in the 70s
Jemma L King, a former Miss Wales finalist, is enchanted to read a prose anthology which explores a quiet revolution of rural entrepreneurship, decima …
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Planet Blues
It’s early winter. I’ve just been for a walk in a field. It’s part of the large estate that surrounds my home – a rented, retired 1830s farmhouse – an …
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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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New Welsh Short Stories, edited by Francesca Rhydderch & Penny Thomas
Vicky MacKenzie finds internationalism, diversity, a beating heart, the rush of blood, and the zing of energy in a collection that proves the health o …
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When Young Dodos Meet Young Dragons, edited by Barlen Pyamootoo, Alan Perry & Sachita Samboo
Mauritian slums; trustafarian students at Welsh universities and a Vancouver ski lift: Alicia Byrne Keane enjoys a poetry and prose anthology that cel …
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 anthology
‘The Children’ by Lucy Caldwell First, in order of appearance, is Caldwell’s The Children which centres on a writer’s research for a story about Carol …
Read moreBookclub Podcast: A View Across the Valley: Stories by Women from Wales, c1850-1950 (Honno)
George Carr chairs our latest Bookclub Podcast with Gwen Davies, Suzy Ceulan Hughes, and Mary Jacob discussing Jane Aaron’s collection (as editor) o …
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Stone Ritual
He lives by each estuary tide; Swallows stones to keep himself regular, He says they come to the silt shore In beetle-black strawship armadas. On Satu …
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What’s the Time, Mr Wolf?
Wales’ enduring flair for the short story is gradually being recognized on an international stage, with our best writers in the form, including Cynan …
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