The Half-Life of Snails

Morgan Davies admires this intriguing human story in which the nuclear debate is wrapped in a powerful exploration of personal and social development

PUBLISHED ON: 28/06/22

CATEGORY: Reviews

Sisters Helen and Jennifer live in the shadow of Wylfa Nuclear Power Station. Growing up in a sheep-farming family on the north coast of Anglesey, Wyl …

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The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology of Contemporary Welsh Poetry

Chris Moss on two anthologies which prove that Welsh poetry in English is in robust health

PUBLISHED ON: 01/11/21

CATEGORY: Reviews

The art of the poetry anthology is a competitive arena. You have the celeb selections (Amis on Larkin, Cerys Matthews on her whims), the ‘authoritativ …

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Shape-shifting and Skin-walking

Kaite O'Reilly on writers who are venturing out of their traditional form to experiment with prose, poetry, screenplays and drama

PUBLISHED ON: 11/02/20

CATEGORY: Opinion

Writers are shape-shifters and skin-walkers. We’re liars, able to take on stories, dialects, eras, perspectives, genders and species not our own and c …

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Dr Siriol McAvoy

But How Familiar-Strange Your Voice and Presence

PUBLISHED ON: 07/05/19

CATEGORY: Opinion

How should we imagine a tradition of women’s poetry in Wales right now – and do we need to? Virginia Woolf’s declaration in A Room of One’s Own that ‘ …

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Ashley Owen reviews Zoology by Gillian Clarke

PUBLISHED ON: 25/03/18

CATEGORY: Audio review

Audio review of Ashley Owen reviewing the poetry collection Zoology by Gillian Clarke, published by Carcanet. Audio recording & edit: Anna Lowthia …

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All That Is Wales: Collected Essays (Writing Wales in English)

John Barnie

PUBLISHED ON: 28/09/17

CATEGORY: Reviews

To those who live in the windowless House of Theory, Wynn Thomas’ collected essays will seem irredeemably old-fashioned. Here, far from being dead, th …

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Wales Festival of Architecture Panel

Linda Rhinehart

PUBLISHED ON: 08/06/17

CATEGORY: Reviews

On Tuesday 9 May, I attended a panel for the festival of Architecture in Wales at 6 pm at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The event was introduced by the new …

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The Map and the Clock

Ellen Bell

PUBLISHED ON: 01/06/17

CATEGORY: Reviews

Sitting in Aberystwyth’s Arts Centre’s Theatre Bar Café, way too early for the theatre doors to open, I think about who goes to poetry recitals. That …

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Hay Festival: Needs More Variety?

Alice Vernon

PUBLISHED ON: 15/02/17

CATEGORY: Blog

If Mum and I have learnt anything over the last few days, it was that we were overzealous when we booked tickets back in April. It was fortunate that …

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A DYLAN ODYSSEY: Fifteen Literary Tour Maps

Jackie Hayden

PUBLISHED ON: 01/10/15

CATEGORY: Reviews

This lavishly and lovingly illustrated anthology, with vivid contributions from Hannah Ellis (Thomas’ granddaughter), Gillian Clarke, Jeff Towns, Grif …

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