A short story by Alphonse Daudet brings to mind the conflict between humanity and utility in British universities.
Buy: Land of ChangeA short story by Rob Mimpriss in a new anthology of radical prose from Wales, edited by Gemma June Howell and published by Culture Matters.
Buy: Rivers of WalesBy Jim Perrin with a foreword by Rob Mimpriss, published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
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Buy: The Sleeping BardT. Gwynn Jones’s translation of the eighteenth-century Welsh classic, with an introduction by Rob Mimpriss, new from Cockatrice Books
Review: Pugnacious Little TrollsClick to read Jon Gower’s review of the collection for Nation Cymru
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Comment: A Parliament by Any Other NameFollowing Richard Suchorzewski’s vow to ‘return to terrify’ the electable parties of Wales, I would like to announce that I will return to terrify the Nobel Prize for Literature committee.
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I am the author of four short story collections. Reasoning and For His Warriors, originally published by Gwasg y Bwthyn, Caernarfon, with Welsh Books Council support, now join Prayer at the End and Pugnacious Little Trolls in revised editions at Cockatrice Books. My anthology of fiction, Dangerous Asylums, including work by Gee and David Williams, Glenda Beagan, Carys Bray, Simon Thirsk and others, was published by the North Wales Mental Health Research Project, October 2016. I am a contributor with Nigel Jarrett, Rachel Trezise, Tristan Hughes and others to Brush with Fate (Albawtaka, 2014), an anthology of Welsh fiction in Arabic translation by Hala Salah Eldin, to Land of Change (Culture Matters), and to Creative Writing Studies (Multilingual Matters, 2007), essays on writing as an academic discipline edited by Graëme Harper and Jeri Kroll, and of the foreword to Rivers of Wales by Jim Perrin (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2022).
I am the translator of Going South: The Stories of Richard Hughes Williams (Cockatrice, 2015), Hallowe’en in the Cwm: The Stories of Glasynys (Cockatrice, 2017), A Book of Three Birds, the seventeenth-century classic by Morgan Llwyd (Cockatrice, 2017), and of fiction by D. Gwenallt Jones, Angharad Tomos, and Manon Steffan Ros. I was Artistic Coordinator of the North Wales Mental Health Research Project convened by Prof. David Healy at the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and am the editor of Cockatrice Books. I hold a Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing from Portsmouth University, and in 2011 I was invited to membership of the Welsh Academy in acknowledgement of my contributions to Welsh writing.
A short story by Alphonse Daudet brings to mind the conflict between humanity and utility in British universities.
Buy: Land of ChangeA short story by Rob Mimpriss in a new anthology of radical prose from Wales, edited by Gemma June Howell and published by Culture Matters.
Buy: Rivers of WalesBy Jim Perrin with a foreword by Rob Mimpriss, published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
Comment: The Four F***sApathy, Indifference and Industrial Inaction at University
Buy: The Sleeping BardT. Gwynn Jones’s translation of the eighteenth-century Welsh classic, with an introduction by Rob Mimpriss, new from Cockatrice Books
Review: Pugnacious Little TrollsClick to read Jon Gower’s review of the collection for Nation Cymru
Comment: ‘Visions and Revisions’Wales, Empire, and the Fate of Henry Morton Stanley’s Statue
Comment: A Well-Wrought UrnAmazon offers me James Wood’s critical masterpiece, How Fiction Works, and a historical novel by Nadine Dorries.
Books: Hart’s ReachRob Mimpriss reads a story from his third collection, Prayer at the End
Comment: ‘Anyone But England’Nationalism, Racism, and UEFA 2021
Comment: A Parliament by Any Other NameFollowing Richard Suchorzewski’s vow to ‘return to terrify’ the electable parties of Wales, I would like to announce that I will return to terrify the Nobel Prize for Literature committee.
Books: Pugnacious Little TrollsRob Mimpriss presents a reading from his recent short-story collection
Comment: Decency’s LimitsAbuse and Blocking on a Conservative MP’s Facebook Wall
Buy: Pugnacious Little TrollsA new collection of short stories published by Cockatrice Books
Comment: Trajectories of FailureNeil Hamilton, Sebastian Haffner, and the Campaign against Welsh Democracy
Comment: A Burning of Storks’ NestsBrexit, Epictetus and the Fall of Troy
Buy: Traveller M. in the Land of the CynocephaliA new short story published in the journal, Otherwise Engaged