Tag: colonialism
The Leading Question
Roger Elkin The High Window Press This collection has Elkin rising to his own challenge: Who will set down their narrative th …
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A Stranger Comes to Town
My family spent two years in Nigeria in the 1960s, when I was about seven. I based my memoir-travel piece, ‘Bush Meat’ (published in extract form in N …
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Bush Meat: As My Mother Told Me
Day after day, a boy tends his cows and watches the sky. The grass is brown; the animals dying; the trees unable to put forth leaves. The clouds cast …
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Extract: The Rains of Titikaka
Soon I would see Bolivian land for the first time and my eyes were greedy to make sense of it, to start feeling and recording what it was. Irregularly …
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Some Small Portion of Eternity
Those old Welsh themes, memory, place, exile and inheritance, continue in this edition. We publish elsewhere a preview of Ynys Môn novelist Tristan Hu …
Read moreOn Reconsidering Derek Walcott’s Sea Grapes
In honour of Derek Walcott, 23 January 1930–17 March 2017 As the editor for eleven years of Poetry Wales (1997–2008), I encountered writers who …
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Oxford & Wales
I was – let’s just say over the age of consent. From a second floor window – casement, actually – I watched my boyfriend dash off as every bell in Oxf …
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Out of the Flux
Dai Smith’s review of Stephen Knight’s A Hundred Years of Fiction (published in New Welsh Review 66) has provoked an important critical and cultural d …
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Africa Junction
Even those Westerners who have ‘lived in Africa on and off for most of [their] lives,’ like Ginny Bailey’s character Louis are ‘wary of talking politi …
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