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Land of Whose Fathers?
Land is an enigma. It is soil, roads, houses and mountains, but more than any or all of those. It is, in a sense, all we have as humans. It is everywh …
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life
With extensive experience in journalism and editing at the Nation, the American author seeks out her own topics of interest in this exciting insight i …
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Bush Meat: As My Mother Told Me
Day after day, a boy tends his cows and watches the sky. The grass is brown; the animals dying; the trees unable to put forth leaves. The clouds cast …
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Some Small Portion of Eternity
Those old Welsh themes, memory, place, exile and inheritance, continue in this edition. We publish elsewhere a preview of Ynys Môn novelist Tristan Hu …
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Roman Wall Blues
In this edition, the past is glimpsed through secretions of silt and mud. In ancient times at Ephesus, silt buries the temple of Artemis; in 1922, a h …
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Energy Crisis: A Memoir of Summer
Solar Power Summer starts with dandelions. They erupt after the pale agreeing heads of the daffodils have withered to brown and begun to relent. The r …
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Spuds and Lobster
To have power is to be sufficiently motivated and assertive to execute our desire, with or without the cooperation of others. Children often lack it, …
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Power in the Land?
There is a choice of two bridges to access Ynys Môn: Telford’s suspension bridge, which provided the first road access, or the later, starker structur …
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Star Tin Ga Cha: Fission Fragments
1. In nuclear fission atoms are split to release energy in a nuclear reactor uranium atoms are forced apart the fission products cause other atoms to …
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Monologue in A
Oh love, don’t mind me, power station posing as a pebble, dressed in the colour of rockpools or sweeping arctic air and wreathed in slate scarves. See …
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