Tag: Britain
Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past
Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past is an informative, immersive book, into which the author weaves poetry, dusting old stories with magic. …
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The Short Knife
Elen Caldecott is an author with an arsenal of children’s books to her name, though she has also worked in a variety of different fields, including ar …
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This September Sun
Recently, I found myself wondering what my life would have been like if I had stayed in England. I’d probably own a house, receive a pension, go on ho …
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Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam
Lung Jazz is full of genuinely surprising and eccentric poems. Poems which don’t belong in a ‘British’ anthology at all. The influences here are clear …
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The Best British Poetry 2011
On my last trip to California, I went into Barnes and Noble and asked the sales assistant in the poetry section for an anthology that would give me a …
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Slate Country Fictions
Mewn gweithfeydd sydd yma’n Nghymru, Gwelir Saeson yn busnesu; Rhaid cael Cymry i dorri’r garreg, Nid yw’r graig yn deall Saesneg. Dewi Dywyll, 1840 B …
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Living with the English
“Does it matter that Fred Inglis’s biography of Raymond Williams often seems to get things wrong when it talks about Wales?” Ned Thomas asks at the be …
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