Tag: Arthurian
For many people, Preseli is a dragon’s spine of 1000-foot mountains (‘hills’, anywhere outside of the UK) topped by rocky outcrops that vaguely separates Narberth, the Milford Haven estuary and the beaches of Tenby from the less touristy sweep of north Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay. ‘The bluestones were used to build Stonehenge’ is about as […]
The Art of David Jones: Vision and Memory
David Jones (1895–1974) is better known as a poet than an artist. His first book-length poem, In Parenthesis, published by Faber & Faber in 1937 – …
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The Tip of My Tongue (And Some Other Weapons As Well)
Trezza Azzopardi has taken an oblique, pared-down approach to the medieval Geraint fab Erbin in her contribution, one of the concluding pair, to Seren …
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Bird, Blood, Snow
Having to deal with such a problematic source text as Peredur, I was rooting for Cynan Jones even before I read his reworking of the tale. Peredur, on …
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