A video game review news platform has been criticised after apologising for a joke about Wales, but then changing it to something that annoyed fans even more. While covering the announcement of the video game Made of Sker, which is made by Wales Interactive and inspired by Welsh folklore, […]
Jon Gower In his politically charged poem “Nightingales” Harri Webb invokes the names of many Welsh rivers, some of which have become polluted, such as the ‘sewered drabs’ of some of the south Wales rivers, while three dammed, or possibly damned rivers are confluenced together as a little triad; ‘Elan, […]
Dylan Wyn Williams S4C has well and truly shone these surreal times. With the all important #ArhoswchGartref and #YmaiChi message embedding the corner of our screens, and cabin fever at work, viewing figures have shot up. In an interview with the Welsh language weekly Golwg, the channel’s Chief Exec Owen […]
Will Philpin Imagine walking into your new studio in Cardiff Bay. A white-walled blank canvas. It’s moving in day, boxes waiting to be unpacked. It is the first week of March 2020. Then, the news rolls in. Gwyn Eiddior, an art director and designer, recalls: “I got about four phone […]
Jon Gower If it is possible to use the term ‘old fashioned’ about a debut novel without its being in any way a castigation then this first fictional outing by Celia Reynolds is just that, a good old fashioned romantic novel which left this reviewer reaching for the Kleenex on […]
Jon Gower Having started life as a one-off pilot episode for BBC Wales, this acutely observed and superbly well scripted series is now deservedly getting a UK-wide airing. Written and created by Kayleigh Llewellyn it’s a harrowing but ultimately uplifting account of 16-year-old Bethan (Gabrielle Creevy)’s coming of age as […]
Jon Gower The great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson argued that ‘Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.’ And yet, photographs in a sense do bring things back again, resurrecting moments, as […]
Jon Gower There are just a few writers who never misjudge a phrase or fail to use the tools of language with all the careful precision of a Swiss watchmaker and Jan Morris is one of these. In this, her second book of diaries – both written when most writers […]
Nia Edwards-Behi It seems everyone’s looking for a distraction in these uncertain and worrying times, and between all the different streaming services and Blu-ray shelves, it’s stressful enough just trying to settle on something to watch. In light of that, here’s a hand-picked list of Welsh films worth your time […]
Jon Gower ‘I’ve been obsessed with language, and it’s been crucifying sometimes, and sometimes it’s a kind of ectasy.’ So said writer and ecstasist Ron Berry – a one-off buccaneer in fiction and truculent artist who was nothing less than tirelessly productive. There were half a dozen novels, essays, short […]
