Tag: Hay Festival
The Significance of Swans
I felt a new energy. My sore feet and back didn’t seem to matter now. I felt the happiest that I had felt, possibly ever. As I marched, I thought of a …
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Water, Water, Nowhere
Mattie tried to remain composed while she faced the IriScan, keeping her features relaxed so the pigment algorithm of her irises could be analysed. It …
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Mothering Song
Since you’ve gone, the rosebuds have opened, the birds that ate from our feeder have raised their young, the ivy has stretched its arm further, hugs t …
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Hay Festival – Winter Weekend
Hay-on-Wye hosted its seventeenth Winter Weekend festival from 25 to 27 November. The Swan Hotel was visited by a variety of writers, historians, come …
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Walking in Coleridge’s Footsteps: From Pandy to Hay Festival
Maverick opera singer Richard Parry led a public excursion from Pandy to Hay Literary Festival in May. The event marked the first of the Coleridge in …
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Neil Gaiman at Hay Festival
The mid-festival slump I experienced was thankfully short-lived. This was mostly due to the fact that I had a precious ticket to see Neil Gaiman in co …
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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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Hay Festival 2015
Hay Festival is one of the most important cultural events of the year. Turning Hay-on-Wye into a bustling celebration of art and science, the festival …
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