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August 24, 2020
Short Story of the Month – ‘Circling the Night’ by Helen Gordon
Our new short story of the month is ‘Circling the Night’ by Helen Gordon. “You look pretty,” Gemma says, accusatorially. “You’re going to pull tonight.” For Leila and her friends a night at the fair is full of opportunities that only the heady world …
August 21, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Afternoons Go Nowhere’ by Sheenagh Pugh
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Afternoons Go Nowhere’ by Sheenagh Pugh, the title poem from her latest collection. A fascination for history, both as a source of human drama and a field for artful speculation, characterises this collection of poems by S…
August 14, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘How to Celebrate a Birthday’ by Katrina Naomi
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘How to Celebrate a Birthday’ by Katrina Naomi from her latest collection Wild Persistence. Wild Persistence by Katrina Naomi is a confident and persuasive collection of poems. Written following her move from London to Co…
August 7, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Secret Reverse’ by Zoë Skoulding
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Secret Reverse’ by Zoë Skoulding from her collection Footnotes to Water which recently won the poetry category in Wales Book of the Year 2020. In Footnotes to Water Zoë Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in B…
August 4, 2020
Zoë Skoulding wins the Poetry category in Wales Book of the Year 2020
We are delighted that Zoë Skoulding and her collection Footnotes to Water have won the poetry category in the Wales Book of the Year 2020. In Footnotes to Water Zoë Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and the Bièvre in Paris, a…
August 3, 2020
Zoë Skoulding wins the Poetry Category in Wales Book of the Year 2020
We are delighted that Zoë Skoulding and her collection Footnotes to Water have won the poetry category in the Wales Book of the Year 2020.
July 31, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘St Michael’s’ by Paul Henry
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘St Michael’s’ by Paul Henry from his collection The Glass Aisle. The Glass Aisle is Paul Henry’s tenth book of verse and features all the lyrical precision, empathy for the human condition and deep sense of temporal loss t…
July 27, 2020
An Interview with Euron Griffith
When he smiled it really did feel as if the chilly Caernarfonshire wind had stopped for a few seconds and as if the place had suddenly got warmer. When Miriam fell in love with Padraig life seemed simple. But soon she discovered that love is a treach…
July 24, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Soundings, Newtown’ by Katherine Stansfield
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Soundings, Newtown’ by Katherine Stansfield from her new collection We Could Be Anywhere By Now. In her second collection, We Could Be Anywhere by Now, Katherine Stansfield brings us poems about placement and displacement…
July 17, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘The Bramble King’ by Catherine Fisher
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Bramble King’, the title poem from Catherine Fisher’s most recent collection. It was great to hear Catherine read from The Bramble King at our Virtual Open Space event with Cardiff Hubs & Libraries last night. The Br…
July 10, 2020
Guest post: Sarah Philpott introduces us to ‘The Seasonal Vegan’
Today, we publish Sarah Philpott’s much-anticipated new book The Seasonal Vegan, and who better to introduce it than the author herself. The Seasonal Vegan by Sarah Philpott is a kitchen diary of seasonal recipes with a delicious mixture of fine food…
July 10, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘here we come’ by Zoë Skoulding
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘here we come’ by Zoë Skoulding which is part of the longer, multi-part poem ‘Heft’. ‘Heft’ makes up the middle part of Zoë latest collection Footnotes to Water which has just been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 202…
