Rob Mimpriss

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Comment: A Burning of Storks’ Nests: Brexit, Epictetus, and the Fall of Troy
‘Where is the Welsh short story going? Wherever Rob Mimpriss takes it.’ John O’Donoghue. Pugnacious Little Trolls, a new collection of short stories published by Cockatrice Books.
Books: Anthologies. ‘Industry in the Country of the Blind,’ new fiction in Land of Change, radical prose from Wales edited by Gemma Howell and forthcoming from Culture Matters.
Journals: Stories. ‘Traveller M. in the Land of the Cynocephali,’ new fiction just published in Otherwise Engaged: A Literary and Arts Journal 6:2 (Winter 2020).
Books: Fiction. ‘Dark, complex, pensively eloquent’ (Sophie Baggott, New Welsh Review) — Reasoning, For His Warriors and Prayer at the End, three short-story collections now published by Cockatrice Books.
Books: Translations. ‘Lucid, skilful, and above all, of enormous timely relevance’ (Jim Perrin). Rob Mimpriss’s new translation of Morgan Llwyd’s allegorical masterpiece, A Book of Three Birds.
Books: Translations. ‘An invaluable translation.’ Angharad Price on Hallowe’en in the Cwm, the short stories of Glasynys, translated by Rob Mimpriss.
Books: Anthologies: ‘this exemplary collaboration’ (Philip Gross). Dangerous Asylums, an anthology of fiction by leading Welsh writers, inspired by Denbigh Mental Hospital, edited by Rob Mimpriss.
Click to read: ‘Quietly written, contemplative... whose powerhouse is the depth of its moral reflection.’ Siân Preece, Rhys Davies Competition on ‘Hamilton Park.’
Latest comment – guest post by A. L. Reynolds. An excerpt from her novel, Of the Ninth Verse, newly published by Cockatrice Books


Second image taken from The Metro.

‘It is no coincidence that the return of a fascist movement is accompanied by the call to make country x, y or z “great again.” It is the greatness of force, power, and the false promise of the return to an unattainable past. That greatness is the opposite of... the human capacity to transcend ourselves, to have imagination and empathy, to live in truth, create beauty, and do justice. This is the true greatness of honouring the dignity of every human being. This is what a democratic civilisation is all about.’

Rob Riemen, To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism (London: W.W. Norton, 2018).

B.A. (Hons), M.A., Ph.D. Member by election of The Welsh Academy.
Author: Pugnacious Little Trolls;
Reasoning: Twenty Stories; For His Warriors: Thirty Stories; Prayer at the End: Twenty-Three Stories.
Editor: Dangerous Asylums: Stories from Denbigh Mental Hospital Told by Leading Welsh Writers.
Contributor: Land of Change (Welsh radical prose edited by Gemma Howell, forthcoming);
Brush with Fate: Voices from Wales (edited and translated into Arabic by Hala Salah Eldin);
Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy (edited by Graëme Harper and Jeri Kroll).
Translator: A Book of Three Birds by Morgan Llwyd;
Hallowe’en in the Cwm by Owen Wynne Jones; Going South by Richard Hughes Williams.
Artistic Convener: North Wales Mental Health Research Project. Editor: Cockatrice Books.

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