Book review: – Ponty Is It? Travels in a Valleys Town by Daryl Leeworthy
Peter Finch Daryl Leeworthy’s highly entertaining new Parthian title is a personal ramble around the town where he lives. It…
No comments.Book review: Welsh Giants, Ghosts & Goblins by Claire Fayers
Dan Mitchell The world of Welsh folk tales is a wild place, populated by a myriad of diverse creatures, powerful…
No comments.Book extract: Ponty Is It? by Daryl Leeworthy
Alun Richards and telling it real in Dai Country With the National Eisteddfod taking place in Pontypridd this week, we…
No comments.Theatre review: Brên. Calon. Fi by Bethan Marlow
Ant Evans Originally commissioned to be performed at the 2022 Eisteddfod in Tregaron, Bethan Marlow’s latest theatrical offering had to…
No comments.Animal Magic: The time the Super Furries turned up at the Eisteddfod in a tank
Image credit: Catherine SharplesThe is an extract from the book International Velvet: How Wales Conquered the ’90s Charts by Neil…
No comments.Book news: Firefly signs dreamlike novel from Zillah Bethell
Penny Thomas, publisher at award-winning children’s and young adult (YA) publisher Firefly Press, has acquired UK and Commonwealth Rights to…
No comments.Yr Hen Iaith number forty six: Exiles, Secret Networks and Literary Milestones
We continue the history of Welsh literature to accompany the second series of podcasts in which Jerry Hunter guides fellow…
No comments.Poetry on Sunday: Mineral Wealth by Mel Perry
We begin a series in which the Llansteffan-based poet Mel Perry explores roots, family and belonging in her poetry. Family…
2 comments.Poetry review. Gwyriad: Poems by Nigel Jarrett
Derek Littlewood Anglophone readers might meet Gwyriad, the title of Nigel Jarrett’s second poetry collection meaning ‘diversion’ as a roadworks…
No comments.On being a poet in Wales: Imogen Davies
Imogen Davies It wasn’t until I spent twelve months abroad that I truly realised what it meant to be a…
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