Christopher Meredith explains how his latest novel got its unusual title, available on the Western Mail website.
October 4 is National Poetry Day and in honour of this year's theme of 'stars' welshgiftshop.com has over 100 signed copies of books by award-winning Welsh authors available to purchase online.
The initiative run by the founder of The Welsh Gift Shop, Becca Hemmings includes books by the following Welsh authors: Gillian Clarke Grahame Davies Joe Dunthorne Rhian Edwards Menna Elfyn Peter Finch Philip Gross Paul Henry Patrick McGuiness Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch Owen Sheers Ifor Thomas The signed books will be available on October 4 from The Welsh Gift Shop, visit their website to find out more and see what Gillian Clarke has to say about the initiative. Elements of this month's New Welsh Review are available to read on their website. Features include articles and interviews with the winners of the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. Well worth a read!
You can read more about New Welsh Review's decision to publish content online in the Western Mail article by NWR editor Gwen Davies. If you missed Sunday's Poetry Please on Radio 4 you have a limited time to catch it online. The episode which was recorded in Cardiff included Paul Henry, Gillian Clarke and Menna Elfyn reading from their work.
You can find the episode here. Tom Sperlinger reviews Derryn Rees-Jones' latest collection, Burrying the Wren. You can read the review in full here; there's also an extremely interesting website dedicated to the collection with plenty of resources and links. In addition, a selection of readings are available to listen to on the Poetry Archive website and are well worth a listen.
Burying the Wren is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation this Autumn and is published by Seren books. |
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