Tag: World War II
University Connections and Professional Lives
In 2015, we fortuitously presented papers on the same panel at the inaugural Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) conference, bringing together the work of …
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All That Is Wales: Collected Essays (Writing Wales in English)
To those who live in the windowless House of Theory, Wynn Thomas’ collected essays will seem irredeemably old-fashioned. Here, far from being dead, th …
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‘The White Negro’?
The presence of poet John Berryman at St Vincent’s Hospital, New York, when Dylan Thomas passed away on 9 November, 1953, has been considered an appro …
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Mother Departs
Mother Departs is a collection of poems, diary entries, photographs and prose fragments loosely organised by Tadeusz Różewicz around the life of his m …
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The Messenger
This is a novel which will divide readers, with some appreciating its heartfelt values and others feeling a lack of sophistication. Like the story’s h …
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Wales Book of the Year Ceremony
Snapshots from 2013’s Ceremony * A whole row of Talybont’s Gruffudd family beaming and flashing iphones at the stage as Welsh overall winner Heini Gru …
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Profile of YA Author Ruta Sepetys
One night a few weeks ago I began to read Between Shades of Gray, a young adult book by first time American author Ruta Sepetys, and couldn’t stop tur …
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