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War and Culture in the Olchon Valley

Nigel Jarrett on the natural and cinematic emblems of our countries and borderlands

PUBLISHED ON: 13/03/20

CATEGORY: Blog

When I first walked the Olchon Valley north of Abergavenny, Bruce Chatwin had just published On the Black Hill, his novel about two farming brothers i …

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Hay Festival – Winter Weekend

Hayley Dolby

PUBLISHED ON: 17/05/17

CATEGORY: Reviews

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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The Cardiff Book Festival

Rachel Carney

PUBLISHED ON: 06/05/17

CATEGORY: Blog

The Cardiff Book Festival took place at venues across Cardiff from 28 to 30 October, and was host to a wide array of publishers, writers and literary …

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The Slate Sea

Menna Elfyn and Alice Conran stand out from a range spanning the overly sentimental and dramatically nostalgic to the restless, angry, hopeful, and honest, within this collection of poetry and photographs inspired by the Conwy Valley, writes Ashley Wakefield

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/15

CATEGORY: Reviews

The Slate Sea, published by Camden Trust, forms part of a larger, multi-media project exploring identity in north Wales, and brings together six poets …

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Good at Self-Deprecation? Not Really. Aime Williams at London Welsh Litfest

Aime Williams

PUBLISHED ON: 15/10/13

CATEGORY: Blog

The London Welsh Centre on Gray’s Inn Road was a real find for me on Saturday, 5 October when I arrived to cover the Litfest’s ‘Wales, Bloomsbury …

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