Dare to Do: Taking on the Planet by Bike and Boat

Amy Aed takes a fast-paced global journey, with record-breaking adventurer Sarah Outen, which doesn’t shy away from mental distress

PUBLISHED ON: 03/05/21

CATEGORY: Reviews

Dare to Do is a fast-paced, engaging travel memoir by rower and adventurer,Sarah Outen, following her journey as she cycles, kayaks and rows across Eu …

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Where There’s a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

Amy Aed on the raw, personal story of Emily Chappell: Welsh writer, adventurer, and cyclist

PUBLISHED ON: 03/05/21

CATEGORY: Reviews

Chappell began her story as a cycle courier in London, a career which allowed her to fully engulf herself in the sport, day in, day out. Enjoying the …

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Tutankhamun’s Wet Nurse Imagines Herself as the Goddess Nut

Poem about mythology, inequality, maternity and female power by Cheryl Pearson

PUBLISHED ON: 01/04/21

CATEGORY: Poetry

stars in my hair                   dragonflies padding each shoulder      a blue mole cuddles each toe           I hold two worlds together            …

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Energy Crisis: A Memoir of Summer

Philippa Holloway

PUBLISHED ON: 25/07/17

CATEGORY: Essays

Solar Power Summer starts with dandelions. They erupt after the pale agreeing heads of the daffodils have withered to brown and begun to relent. The r …

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The Palestinian

Robert Minhinnick

PUBLISHED ON: 25/07/17

CATEGORY: Fiction

The white arse? Three words on a piece of paper. That’s what the old man called the bird. So I did too. The only time I saw it was in the Gwter Gryn w …

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Llanmassiv

Jane Houston

PUBLISHED ON: 25/07/17

CATEGORY: Poetry

Bursts a woman from her door belting out laughter so hard the paving slabs shatter under foot, the castle walls crumble and bells in every belfry clan …

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My Artemis, My Ephesus

Karen Phillips reports on the melancholy past and 7 present of Izmir in Turkey

PUBLISHED ON: 25/07/17

CATEGORY: Essays

In our Turkish years, when the sun shone on history changing before our eyes, we used to scuba dive at Pamucak Bay, seaward of the ruins of Ephesus. I …

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Deborah Kay Davies

by Gwen Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 24/10/12

CATEGORY: Interview

NWR: There are some themes and plotlines shared between True Things About Me and The London Train, for example a major female character in a submissiv …

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