Tag: Gillian Clarke
The Half-Life of Snails
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
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
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
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 ‘ …
Read moreAshley Owen reviews Zoology by Gillian Clarke
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)
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
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
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?
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
This lavishly and lovingly illustrated anthology, with vivid contributions from Hannah Ellis (Thomas’ granddaughter), Gillian Clarke, Jeff Towns, Grif …
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