Tag: grief
Hello Friend We Missed You
Hello Friend We Missed You is Richard Owain Roberts’ debut novel, and continues the characteristic bleak yet humorous style found in his previous shor …
Read moreMy Mother Taught Me How to Sing and Graveyards in My Closet
Welsh boys and their mothers, eh? A cup of milky tea, a hunk of barabrith and mammy’s becardiganed cwtch – these have a Proustian ability to melt the …
Read moreWild Spinning Girls
Published by the Welsh press Honno, Wild Spinning Girls is the third notch on Carol Lovekin’s writing belt. Lovekin’s fiction focuses on strong female …
Read moreBorscht Without Tears
Phil and I were making the most of the late summer sun. There was a ripple of autumn through the salty evening air, but it was still warm enough for o …
Read moreHand and Skull
Zoe Brigley’s third collection of poetry is a tender exploration of gender, cruelty, violence, myth, motherhood and physicality. Sometimes unsettling, …
Read moreGeorge Carr Reviews Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi (Bloomsbury)
SCROLL DOWN FOR SCRIPT George Carr reviews the novel Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi (published by Bloomsbury on 18 April). Researched, …
Read moreDignity: a Letter
Dignity is published on 4 April. Although many of the social and historical aspects of Dignity come from family experience and other primary and secon …
Read moreCreed (Honno Welsh Women’s Classics Series)
While she was writing Creed, Margiad Evans’ father was dying in the room directly above her. She was twenty-seven years old and this was the fourth no …
Read moreThe Golden Orphans
The narrator of The Golden Orphans (he is never identified by name) is an artist who has outlived his promise – he hasn’t sold a painting in four year …
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