Food Tales from Wales: The Land in a Piece of Sheep’s Cheese
Carwyn Graves It’s well known that sheep have fashioned the Welsh landscape for hundreds of years, but less widely appreciated…
No comments.R.S.Thomas – poet, activist and…harmonica player
Jon Gower The poet R S Thomas has a reputation for being a bit curmudgeonly, in part because of photographs…
2 comments.Letter from Baneswell, Newport
Richard Frame In 1972 the wrecker’s ball hung in the air over the district of Baneswell which snuggles up to…
No comments.Very Heavy Metal: Newport’s Skindred Win Best Live Artist Award
Molly Stubbs Crafted from solid aluminium fashioned into a hefty cuboid, covered with crimson logos and engraved category names, the…
No comments.Cranogwen sculpture celebrates an extraordinary Welsh woman
For the last three years, Sebastien and Helena Boyesen have been working on the statue of Sarah Jane Rees, Cranogwen…
No comments.Review: The Sound of Being Human by Jude Rogers
Jon Gower Reading this book is about as positive and life-affirming experience as you’re going to get short of putting…
One comment.Yr Hen Iaith part twelve: Culhwch and Olwen
Continuing our series of articles to accompany the podcast series Yr Hen Iaith. This is episode twelve. Jerry Hunter Culhwch’s…
2 comments.Review: Grey in the Dark by John Lincoln
Chris Lloyd My grandfather, who used to repair long-case clocks for a living, always maintained that to be able to…
No comments.On Being a Writer in Wales: Nathan Munday
Nathan Munday Another Island ‘Nantucket sound — blue sand and yellow water — an epoch away.’ Lighthouses. Ralph Lauren lads.…
No comments.Review: Letters from Wales by Sam Adams
Jon Gower This gargantuan doorstopper of a volume, weighing in at almost 800 pages, is described by the author as…
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