Patti Webber It was a clear day. Three red kites were surfing the rushing air in a lazy circling, their mewing calls echoing among the Myddfai Mountains. Raptors hovering high, above where land and water meet, and giving notice of an inspired dyer, a cook and a curer of ills. […]
Jon Gower The American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega once described the skyscrapers of Manhattan as having an “irresistible verticality.” The term might well encapsulate the lure of mountains for Tremadog’s Eric Jones, a climber compulsively drawn to heights and challenge and the technical difficulty of constantly hitting peak performance as it […]
Matthew G. Rees TOKAREV thought of the carp in the glasshouse and, as he lay on his pillow, he imagined them moving with great discipline in their pond in the dark. Glancing at his wife Lidiya, who was snoring softly beside him, he eased back the covers and stepped from […]
Emily Garside It’s been a busy summer for Welsh theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe. And a whole array of companies large and small have been flyering their way around Edinburgh and making headlines with their work. So as the Fringe finally draws to a close, here’s some Welsh companies/productions who […]
Elaine Canning She ran. Down the stairs, dodging crushed cans strewn across the stained carpet, trying to block out the screams. Mum was having one of her ‘moments’, though it was much worse this time. Screeches more than screams, they were, scratch, scratching at Olwen’s ears until they bled. She […]
Jon Gower Were I the sort of writer who suffers from envy I’d probably switch off the radio just before despatching assassins down the Aberaeron road. The first part of the radio adaptation of the Ceredigion-based Cynan Jones’ soon-to-be-published novel proved, once again, just how pared back and bloody brilliant […]
Jon Gower Now well into his eighties John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon can take the long view back over sixty years in politics, which included a very long stint as Aberavon’s M.P., spanning the years between 1959 and 2001. This makes him the longest serving Welsh Parliamentarian. As a […]
Jon Gower This book takes a couple of hours to read, thus about the same duration as a West End show. And it is a show, a riotous tour de force by one of Wales’ most energetic entertainers and producers. I have to confess I’m not the laugh-out-loud sort of […]
Jon Gower Theatre-goers in Wales will know that author Adam Somerset is one of the art form’s most diligent and perceptive critics, driving long miles to garner reviews from all four corners. So it may come as some surprise that this, his first collection of essays, contains nary a single […]
Jon Gower It’s astonishing what a little bit of history-sleuthing can reveal about a place. At a funeral in Rhosaman in 2012, Aldwyth Rees Davies, the author of this fine little book was asked by her daughter who were all the people filling Bethania Chapel? The fact that all four […]
