Tag: folklore
Early Twentieth-century Welsh Plays in English, Vol 1: ‘A Dirty Broth’
The first volume of a two-book series devoted to Welsh writing for the theatre, A Dirty Broth, contains the complete texts of just three plays. You m …
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The Moon-Eyed People and the White Ravens
‘What is the connection between a first edition of Under Milk Wood and a toy Batmobile?’ storyteller Peter Stevenson asked a puzzled audience. Such un …
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Welsh Folk Tales
Ceredigion based Peter Stevenson is known for his activism as a story-teller and folk-lorist, and for his prolific and distinquished published work, w …
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Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology
In her investigation of the use of Irish and Welsh mythology in literature for children in recent years, Dimitra Fimi discusses Pat O’Shea’s The Hound …
Read moreContemporary Literature from Wales
Gwen Davies on recent fiction in English from Wales, Robin Chapman on the rejection of politicisation in Welsh-language literature since devolution, S …
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NWR Records First Book Group
Mary Jacob & Suzy Ceulan Hughes made marvellous contributions last night to a recorded book club on Eliza Granville’s novel Gretel & the Dark …
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The Welsh Winter Wren
Surprise in post! Just opened marvellous full colour hardback treasure destined for the lucky Gwyneth Lewis who’s using it for a review-essay-opinion …
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Keeping Up with the Joneses, NWR at Hay Festival 28 May 2013
The Landmarc 100 stage at Hay Festival was the aptly named venue for my conversation with Cynan Jones & Lloyd Jones about their novellas that were …
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Snowdon, The Story of a Mountain
For a book ostensibly tied to a specific locality, Jim Perrin’s Snowdon covers a lot of ground. The mountain itself stands at the centre of the narrat …
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