Tag: nature
From Love Bugs to Period Taboos: Kendal Mountain Festival 2
The Kendal Mountain Festival showcases some of the most influential explorers, books, and films in the industry. One of the many documentary features …
Read moreThe Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage
Jim Phelan, in collection of Ian Cutler An extensive list of words for people of no fixed abode in the introduction to this book reminds us how …
Read moreTiger Girl
Tiger Girl shimmers with beauty and rage: for every exquisite description of a bird or tiger, there’s an incident of cruelty and horror, unfolded on t …
Read moreNaturalist: A Graphic Adaptation
Edward O Wilson, as readers of the New Welsh Review will know, is one of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists, an entomologist with an unrivall …
Read moreWild Persistence
From the very first line, ‘A joy of noise’, there’s humour and revelry in Katrina Naomi’s third full-length collection. There’s pleasure taken in a lo …
Read moreWell-laid Hedges and Cider
‘Coming to Mrs Wallet’s?’ Tom Johns was lighting his bicycle lamp, shielding the rather damp match that he had taken from a small tin and struck on hi …
Read moreThe Hare Book and The Hedgehog Book
In an essay in the current issue of New Welsh Reader [Issue 124], I confessed to my obsession with hares. And I drew on Jane Russ’ The Hare Book for i …
Read moreTelling your father at Bwlch Nant yr Arian
We’re going to have a baby, I told your father, just days since I’d felt his ribs slot like coins between mine. We were toeing a mou …
Read moreRivers Joining
Freshwater mussels, coffee bean brown, cleaned by oyster catchers that jostle where the Wenning brunts the Lune. We gaze upstream at the Howgills, the …
Read moreWho is Briton Tom? Interview with Robert Minhinnick in Porthcawl
This interview, conducted in English, was originally published in Welsh (‘Tywod Porthcawl: Mynd am Dro gyda Robert Minhinnick’) in O’r Pedwar Gwynt ( …
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