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.
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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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Comment: Decency’s LimitsAbuse and Blocking on a Conservative MP’s Facebook Wall
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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
‘In scores of countries there is hunger for an order which respects the dignity of each human person, which gives priority to human life in community. There is a thirst for a government which will ensure for every single person and every nation to be what they are: to realise their potential to the full; for an order which fully respects man’s humanity; an order which perceives that man is essentially a social creature, closely woven into the texture of his own society; an order which recognises generously in all its policies that man has a soul and a mind as well as a body...’
Gwynfor Evans, Land of My Fathers: Two Thousand Years of Welsh History. Swansea: John Penry, 1974.
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