Book Launch: Unspeakable Beauty

A wonderful launch at Swansea Waterstones for Georgia Carys Williams’ debut novel Unspeakable Beauty last night. I was working in Swansea Waterstones about 20 years ago now and it is lovely to be back there doing events. Next up the launch of This Common Uncommon, the new poetry collection by Rae Howells on 26th June! I picked up the first copies of this on my way home last night and it looks beautiful! Today I’m off to the Creative Industries Day at Cardiff Uni to take part in the Publishing Panel… see some of you there!

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In Praise of Magnolia

Teaching means a walk through Roath Park and along the lake. Look at this beauty!

TRAVEL PHOTO: Asian green bee-eater

A bit of vibrant colour from this Asian green bee-eater on a wire on our trip to Goa last year...

BOOK REVIEW: 'one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Welsh writing in English'

There is a wonderful extended review essay 'Ecological Literacy' by Steven Lovatt in the latest issue of New Welsh Review exploring recent books that seek to restore natural and cultural ecologies and recognise how the cultural nature of our landscapes is preserved in language. It offers an in-depth look at This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells, and here are three of our favourite snippets: "Rae Howells’ new poetry collection, This Common Uncommon , is a fierce and loving affirmation of the local, exemplifying the sort of care-full attention to the interdependence of people, other animals and plants that will be required if anything worthwhile is to be saved from the present ruin." "Howells confirms the evidence of her first collection, The Language of Bees, that she is a highly adept poet, possessing one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Welsh writing in English." "If West Cross Common is developed for housing, nobody can now claim ignoran...

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