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Hymns and Arias: The Selected Poems, Songs and Stories
Rugby posts, bedraggled sheep, male voice choirs and redundant colliery wheels. Like the cartoonist Gren (Grenville Jones) – whose funny, affectionate …
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The Tall Owl and Other Stories
Ed Garland’s book of criticism, bibliotherapy and memoir, Earwitness, which New Welsh Review published in 2019, raised my awareness of the neglected s …
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Suicide Machine
It’s just over a decade since I first met the photographer Dan Wood. I was gathering footage for a student film about creativity in our hometown, Brid …
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The Price of the Picturesque
The Emptying of Covid-19. It sounds like the title of a Thomas Pynchon novel. But for three long months, the skies cleared, the beaches were clean and …
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The Porthcawl Celtic Festival
The Porthcawl Celtic Festival (also known as Cwlwm Celtaidd ‘Celtic Knot’), is a small, community-run festival in south Wales that occurs once a year. …
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Connecting the Dragons
I’ll let you in on something that I have scarcely told anyone before: a part of me secretly wants to become a zoologist. I’ve always loved the idea of …
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It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s
A china sausage dog – the centrepiece of a grandmother’s fireplace – becomes a tragi-comic memento mori of the industry that once sustained an entire …
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Zero Hours on the Boulevard: Tales of Independence and Belonging
A couple argue over whether to take in the stranger scratching at the door. A lonely young man, employed by a euthanasia clinic, resolves to take his …
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Ironopolis
Ironopolis is a remarkably haunted book, its characters shadowed by their pasts, their social history, each other and in some cases, something superna …
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