Tag: colonialism
Live Interview Recording from Hay Festival
‘The experience of non-human neighbours… the animate world… of which we’re part… and engaging with other living creatures, can just put your own …
Read moreAnd… A Memoir of My Mother: Negotiating Personal and Racial Identity in Wales
For Amy McCauley, this memoir about colonialism’s violence and its cultural and linguistic erasure, conveys the fragmentation caused by childhood trau …
Read moreThe Leading Question
Roger Elkin The High Window Press This collection has Elkin rising to his own challenge: Who will set down their narrative th …
Read moreA 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 …
Read moreExtract: 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 …
Read moreSome 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 moreBush 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 …
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 …
Read moreOxford & 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 …
Read moreOut 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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