Review: Autobiography by Margiad Evans
Jon Gower Sometimes words fail you as a reviewer, such as when a book comes along that reconfigures what you…
No comments.Review: Maps & Rooms – Writing from Wales
Jon Gower ‘Here in Wales, there seems to be a long overdue attempt to redress the balance of who gets…
No comments.Review: Osi Rhys Osmond: Cultural Alzheimer’s and other essays
Ant Heald “Strangely, the recent past when re-examined through the photograph, can sometimes look more remote than the distant past.”…
No comments.Review: Hergest by Geraint Evans
Ant Evans In this his latest novel, Geraint Evans transports the reader to the fictional university town of Hergest. As…
No comments.A wonder in the ring: Welsh wrestling legend ‘El Bandito’
Jon Gower Tonight the biggest wrestling show in three decades – the titanic ‘Clash at the Castle’ – will attract…
No comments.On Being a Writer in Wales: Hammad Rind
When I started writing my debut novel Four Dervishes (Seren Books, 2021) nine years ago, just after moving to Wales,…
No comments.Review: Capten by Meinir Pierce Jones
Rebecca Roberts ‘When one thing comes to an end, something else must, by necessity, begin. Like wave after wave on…
No comments.Review: Dychmygu Iaith by Mererid Hopwood
Morgan Owen How do we imagine language? Often through the medium of language itself, in a curiously self-referential act. From…
One comment.Review: Grave Tales from Wales – Volume Two by Geoff Brookes
Jon Gower This latest sojourn around the gravestones by Geoff Brookes is chock full of fascinating lives and deaths. He…
One comment.Age is just a number: Wales go for glory at the Over 70s World Cup
Jon Gower & David Mayer (all images courtesy of D. Mayer) ‘Football is fantastic – and knows no age.’ That’s the evergreen…
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