Search Results for: Niall Griffiths
Book review: The Geography of the Heart by Cath Barton
Niall Griffiths I like having this stuff, this tiny press material, around; I like the grassroots whiff of it, the…
No comments.Visual Art: ‘Cyfoes’: Celf Cymru Heddiw/Contemporary Welsh Art
Niall Griffiths Ah, the National Library. Bulks on the hill above Aberystwyth; broods over the town below. Kafka’s Castle without…
One comment.Book review: The Shape of Her by Anne Lauppe-Dunbar
Niall Griffiths There’s a lot of waking up in this book; many chapters and sub-chapters begin with the narrator(s) arising…
No comments.Review: IMPACT/Ardrawiad by Angharad Pearce Jones, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Niall Griffiths This is powerful stuff; angry, thoughtful, hugely skilled. Whether you enter through the left door or the right…
No comments.Review: Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears
Niall Griffiths I’m unsure about the historical novel as a genre; dubious of its contemporary relevance. I suspect that it…
No comments.Review: The Miners Strike Back by Kevin Dicks
Niall Griffiths In the acknowledgements to this book, we find this announcement/disclaimer/justification: ‘Before I’m accused of climate denial for my…
5 comments.Review: All Through the Night – Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies by Dani Robertson
Niall Griffiths The thing about béte noir novels is that they so easily lapse into tedium; the almost monomaniacal screed,…
No comments.Review: The Same Country by Carole Burns
Niall Griffiths Whenever I’m in America I am struck, time over, by the recognition of the centrality of guns to…
No comments.Review: Tryweryn, A New Dawn? The Legacy of the Drowning of Capel Celyn by Wyn Thomas
Niall Griffiths In 2008, on the BBC evening news, Liverpool Councillor Storey offered this apology to the displaced of Capel…
10 comments.Review: Firebombers
Niall Griffiths I remember the moment quite well; I was about 12, asleep in my parent’s house in West Kirby,…
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