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Read morePlanet Blues
It’s early winter. I’ve just been for a walk in a field. It’s part of the large estate that surrounds my home – a rented, retired 1830s farmhouse – an …
Read moreThe Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
In this ambitious and moving work – a hybrid of memoir, polemic and cultural criticism – the US poet and academic explores the ‘melancholia’ of the wo …
Read moreDare to Do: Taking on the Planet by Bike and Boat
Dare to Do is a fast-paced, engaging travel memoir by rower and adventurer,Sarah Outen, following her journey as she cycles, kayaks and rows across Eu …
Read moreWhere There’s a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
Chappell began her story as a cycle courier in London, a career which allowed her to fully engulf herself in the sport, day in, day out. Enjoying the …
Read moreThe Tall Owl and Other Stories
Ed Garland’s book of criticism, bibliotherapy and memoir, Earwitness, which New Welsh Review published in 2019, raised my awareness of the neglected s …
Read moreProud Flesh
I had fallen out of love with everything. It was calming to think of all the ways a person could go, but wasn’t serious enough to pull it off. A routi …
Read moreSuicide Machine
It’s just over a decade since I first met the photographer Dan Wood. I was gathering footage for a student film about creativity in our hometown, Brid …
Read moreFEED (Taliesin Live)
TRIGGER WARNING: Content discussing; self-harm, sexual harassment and violence. Venturing alone to Taliesin Theatre at the end of February turn …
Read moreJim Neat: The Case of a Young Man Down on His Luck
Mary J Oliver’s father passed away in 1983, but it isn’t until twenty-five years later that a spark ignites inside the author, urging her to find out …
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