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March 29, 2022
Barney Norris – The Wellspring: From Page to Stage
In this guest post, Barney Norris discusses the link between his memoir The Wellspring and his new stage production of the same name currently touring the UK. Catch Barney and his father David Owen Norris performing The Wellspring at the Oxford Playh…
March 25, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Plasticine Love Hearts’ by Janette Ayachi
As it’s Mother’s Day on Sunday, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘Plasticine Love Hearts’ by Janette Ayachi from the anthology Writing Motherhood. Through a unique combination of interviews, poems, and essays, Writing Motherhood, edited by Carolyn Jess-Coo…
March 18, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘From the Cockpit Window’ by Anne-Marie Fyfe
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘From the Cockpit Window’ by Anne-Marie Fyfe from her collection House of Small Absences. Anne-Marie Fyfe’s poems have long dwelt on the role that the spaces we inhabit, the places in which we find security, play in our liv…
March 16, 2022
Gifts for Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we’ve rounded up a list of books that would make great Mother’s Day gifts. Browse the list below, or visit our new titles page for more ideas. Auscultation – Ilse Pedler Auscultation means listening and…
March 11, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Interviewing’ by Ruth Bidgood
Following the sad passing of Ruth Bidgood, and in celebration of International Women’s Day, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘Interviewing’ from Ruth’s award-winning collection Time Being. Ruth Bidgood’s Time Being, winner of the Roland Mathias Prize, is e…
March 8, 2022
10 Books for International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day we’ve put together a list of ten books by and about women which you should read. In Her Own Words – Alice Entwistle In Her Own Words: Women Talking Poetry and Wales is a collection of interviews with women poets…
March 8, 2022
Ruth Bidgood Obituary
We are sorry to hear of the passing of Ruth Bidgood, one of Wales’s finest poets.
March 4, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Portrait of the Artist Asleep’ by Ben Wilkinson
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Portrait of the Artist Asleep’ by Ben Wilkinson from his collection Same Difference which was published earlier this week. Same Difference is the formally acute second collection by Ben Wilkinson. Carefully crafted, a…
March 1, 2022
Reading for St David’s Day
Happy St David’s Day / Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. 1st March not only marks the first day of Spring, but also St David’s Day here in Wales. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up a list of great books by some of our Welsh authors. How many of these have you read?…
February 25, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Steel’ by Paul Henry
To celebrate the Six Nations and St David’s Day on the 1st March, this week’s Friday Poem is ’Steel‘ by Paul Henry from The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems. With a musician’s ear and an artist’s eye, Paul Henry’s poems of love and fatherhood, inf…
February 22, 2022
Celebrating Welsh Dark Skies Week
The 19th to the 27th February 2022 is the inaugural Welsh Dark Skies Week, a week-long series of events designed to raise awareness of light pollution and how it impacts wildlife, our health and our view of the stars. Wales has one of the largest per…
February 18, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Fatherhood’ by Carrie Etter
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Fatherhood’ by Carrie Etter from her collection The Weather in Normal. Carrie Etter is known for beautifully expressive and formally inventive verse. The Weather in Normal, her fourth collection, explores the changes to he…
