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The Cardiff Review interview Rhys Owain Williams
JAMIE GILLINGHAM What do you find are the most enjoyable and most challenging aspects of writing/being a writer? RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS I think most writers struggle to switch off, and perhaps we never completely do. Everything we encounter in life has the potential to provide that flash of inspiration. Feeling attuned to the world around you in that way is such a positive experience, giving you those moments of absolute creative thought, but it can also be a huge strain on your mental health. The screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan said that “being a writer is like having homework every night for...
Author's Notes: Roberto Pastore
Jenny White calls Roberto Pastore 'A sparkling new poetic voice' in the Western Mail today. We may be biased, but we'd have to agree ;) 'Juggling the mystical and the mundane, Roberto Pastore's first full-length collection of poetry is a thrilling book that begs to be savoured. Bright, vivid memories of people loved and lost, the slipperiness of time and memory, the hope that can be found even in the depths of suffering – it's all there in these beautiful, enigmatic, often incantatory poems.' Pick up a copy of the Western Mail today to read the interview in full. Buy...
Poetry by Christina Thatcher on Anti-Heroin Chic
Before I was old enough for funerals,
our rabbits died. The first drowned
deep in a bucket, learning to swim.
The second got so slow her brain
was eaten by rats, her opened skull
still steaming when I found her.
Sullen Art Podcast Episode 11: Natalie Ann Holborow
Listen to the latest Sullen Art Podcast in which Iqbal Malik and Simon Jones of Frequency House chat with poet Natalie Ann Holborow about her latest collaborative project with Mari Ellis Dunning, her writing process and her forthcoming second collection Small, out with Parthian in October 2020. Recorded at Dylan Thomas Birthplace in Swansea.
Wales Arts Review Writers' Rooms: Zoë Brigley
For the latest in Wales Arts Review's Writers’ Rooms series, poet, essayist and academic Zoë Brigley invites us into her workspace in her home in Ohio. 'It is so important for mothers to have a “room of one’s own.” But it’s unrealistic to think that this space will ever be entirely free of children, nor would I want it to be. I often find people asking me about the “pram in the hall” problem for writers who are mothers, but I don’t feel worse for having my children be part of my writing life. In fact, they have made me sharper,...
