Tag: Cardiff

[We] read in place-names a record of important events and reconstruct something of the culture of the namers at the time they assigned names to the places they saw. Gregory McNamee, Grand Canyon Place Name (Johnson Books, 1997)   The Lollipop. Scrambler’s Field, with its lustful views of the hills. Jogger’s Meadow   On 23 March, […]
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Gwen Davies reviews Y Gymru ‘Ddu’ a’r Ddalen ‘Wen’: Aralledd ac Amlddiwylliannedd mewn Ffuglen Gymreig, er 1990 by Lisa Sheppard

Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 23/06/20

CATEGORY: Audio review

Gwen Davies stakes a claim for fiction in the creation of empathy, that missing life-skill in those at risk of mental health breakdown and lawbreaking …

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Impeccable

The crime thriller Impeccable by Jameel Sandham shares territory with Breaking Bad and Trainspotting. Desi Tsvetkova investigates

PUBLISHED ON: 16/06/20

CATEGORY: Reviews

Jameel Sandham’s self-published crime thriller, Impeccable, eerily reminiscent of Ivrine Welsh’s best-selling hit Trainspotting, offers a gritty depic …

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Pairing Wales and South America

Richard Gwyn

PUBLISHED ON: 11/02/20

CATEGORY: Opinion

Richard Gwyn on the central, serious, importance of make-believe to Latin American life and literature, and the gestation of his festival, Fiction Fie …

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Docklands: A Ghost Story

Dafydd Harvey admires the poet’s marked ability to crystalise trauma, but find the work’s narrative marred by a stubborn stylistic sameness

PUBLISHED ON: 29/10/19

CATEGORY: Reviews

Damian Walford Davies’ poetry collection Docklands, A Ghost Story is the tale of an unnamed well-to-do architect working in a thriving Victorian Cardi …

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The Word

JL George

PUBLISHED ON: 22/10/19

CATEGORY: Fiction

‘This one,’ hisses Jonno, and I follow him through the gap in the hedge. Twigs tear at my clothing and it isn’t quite wide enough, so I have to drop m …

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Water, Water, Nowhere

Heledd Williams

PUBLISHED ON: 22/10/19

CATEGORY: Fiction

Mattie tried to remain composed while she faced the IriScan, keeping her features relaxed so the pigment algorithm of her irises could be analysed. It …

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Brando’s Bride : The incredibly true story of Anna Kashfi and her marriage to one of Hollywood’s greatest stars

Chris Moss

PUBLISHED ON: 30/07/19

CATEGORY: Reviews

Marlon Brando is one of those movie heartthrobs we don’t quite get anymore – and I mean ‘get’ in both senses of the word. Odd-looking, with his sly ey …

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Interview with João Morais

Ann D Bjerregaard interviews the Cardiff-based author João Morais about his debut short story collection, Things that Make the Heart Beat Faster, out on 1 October

PUBLISHED ON: 26/09/18

CATEGORY: Blog, Interview

João Morais holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, and he writes regularly for New Welsh Review and other publications. A number of …

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The Wolf Tattoo

Nathan Llywelyn Munday, though saddened by the experience, enjoyed how this playwright explores toxic masculine gang culture with an approach that is all at once animalistic, primordial, and scarily current

PUBLISHED ON: 27/07/18

CATEGORY: Reviews

However hard the playwright tries, the theatre tends to be us and them. Usually, the audience return to a St Mellons, a Pontprennau or a Birchgrove. T …

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