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Babylon Wales: December 2006
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Notes from the margins of Welsh popular culture. Monday, December 25, 2006. Homage to Blaenau Ffestiniog. I don't know about you but whenever I think of Christmas it isn't Santa who pops into my head but Arthur Koestler. For three years Koestler (see pic), author of. Lived at a cottage in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Biographers often describe his abode there as "bleak" which is code for: outside London. The above picture shows Koestler in his Welsh cottage in early 1948. Posted by Anthony Brockway at 12:07 AM.
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Babylon Wales: October 2006
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Notes from the margins of Welsh popular culture. Saturday, October 28, 2006. Trezise Can You Spare a Dime? Well done to Rachel Trezise for scooping the inaugral Dylan Thomas Prize and the 60,000 smackers that go with it. It's great that a writer as naturally gifted as her has achieved this success. That she also comes from the Rhondda and writes about the area and its people is a bonus. Her winning collection of short stories. Is well worth getting hold of, as is her debut novella the equally excellent.
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Babylon Wales: September 2006
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Notes from the margins of Welsh popular culture. Friday, September 29, 2006. From Barry Dock to Galactic North. The upcoming new book by Welsh sci-fi author Alastair Reynolds. It's a collection of stories set in the. Universe - that noirish and gothic place featured in his excellent and highly successful novels. Stories in this collection include:. Great Wall of Mars. A Spy in Europa. Is published by Orion. Posted by Anthony Brockway at 10:40 PM. Saturday, September 23, 2006. Dirty Sanchez: The Movie.
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Babylon Wales: May 2006
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Notes from the margins of Welsh popular culture. Thursday, May 25, 2006. Bette Davis' Welsh Farewell. Bette Davis was in town to perform her one woman show. In Person and on Film. For 2 successive nights) at the New Theatre. On the first night the crowd packed the auditorium ready to glimpse the 67 year old Hollywood goddess. Arriving on stage to rapturous applause she was quickly into her stride. Like some kind of. Flickered onto screen;. The Corn is Green. She lit a cigarette. That was easy - potatoes!
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HILL'S CHRONICLE: Roman Burial - BATH
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Ponderynge together yestardayes promise, and two-dayes doyng". Hall's Chronicle - 1548). Goronigl gwyr yr Ynys" (Lewis Glyn Cothi - 1450). Tuesday, 7 July 2015. Roman Burial - BATH. Did she come for the waters. To bathe or drink. Did she come to the Goddess. Of the springs welling hot from the earth? Certainly she died here. Far from her home in Gaul, though still. Among her own people. Her memorial. A stone on the road beyond the walls. As Roman law decreed, tells us all. Of the Mediomatrici died aged 58.
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HILL'S CHRONICLE: Storm Over Vesuvius
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Ponderynge together yestardayes promise, and two-dayes doyng". Hall's Chronicle - 1548). Goronigl gwyr yr Ynys" (Lewis Glyn Cothi - 1450). Tuesday, 9 June 2015. Vesuvius as the storm clears from the hills above Sorrento. After the heat of the day, the afternoon brings thunder. After the glare of the sunshine , dark clouds gather. Across the bay of the sirens Vesuvius looms. But the flashing fire and the crashing booms. Come out of the air not the earth through the mountain:. A very tense poem. I felt...
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Babylon Wales: June 2006
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Notes from the margins of Welsh popular culture. Monday, June 26, 2006. Pulp Fiction in Llandudno. As far as I'm aware Llandudno is not noted for its dark criminal underbelly but it was from here that Wales' only pulp fiction publishing house once operated. The majority of books published by the company were written by Kaner himself - sci-fi novels like. People of the Twilight. 1946) His collections of stories included. 1946) (see pic); and. Posted by Anthony Brockway at 11:00 PM. Thursday, June 22, 2006.
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how i was made | Velvet Coalmine
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Self-preservation is what's really going on today. 8216;Proper’ writing. Tagged: how i was made. April 30, 2015. On Enemies Within: growing up with the Miners’ Strike in memory, myth and history. 8220; Faced with possible Parliamentary destruction of all that is good and compassionate in our society, extra-parliamentary action will be the only course open to the working class and the Labour movement.”. 8211; Arthur Scargill, 1983. We’re secure in the knowledge that we already lost a long time ago. In 198...
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New Welsh Review: Brand New Website
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012. This will be the last blog in this current format. It has now found its proper home on our revamped website. And a new poem by Jane Yeh. But you'll have to buy a copy or subscribe (£19) to read these in full. Hopefully our full interviews with these key authors will whet your appetite en route to subscribing rather than sustaining it. Blogs, my Western Mail. Insider columns, guest blogs, reviews and further author interviews can also be found at the shiny new site. 26 Treasures: ...
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