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Chwe blynedd yn ôl cyhoeddodd Y Lolfa fy nofel ddychanol am brifysgolion, Rhwng y silffoedd – ychydig cyn i Covid orchfygu’r byd (a chladdu’r llyfr, i bob pwrpas). Neithiwr tynnais i gopi o’r silff, gan feddwl tybed a oedd unrhyw…
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The Derangement and other calamities
On climate ‘change’ Ian McEwan has form. In Solar (2010) he played on themes of retreating Arctic ice and power from the sun. He gives ecofiction another outing in his most recent novel, What we can know (2025), the main…
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Understanding Armageddon
The Christadelphians of Mount Zion, whose events often provoke strange thoughts, are inviting us to join them for an eight-week seminar course called ‘Understanding Armageddon’. Like most people, I suppose, I had a vague idea about Armageddon, but I began…
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‘Like an inedible chocolate’: a defence of slugs
It was in London that I saw the book, quite by chance. The picture on its cover, ‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’, by Ceri Richards, was instantly familiar. The title, The script of the stones:…
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Cylchu Cymru
Nôl ym mis Gorffennaf, yn Gŵyl Arall yng Nghaernarfon, digwyddodd imi alw heibio i sesiwn yng ngardd gefn Palas Print lle’r oedd Gruffudd ab Owain yn trafod ei lyfr newydd Yn ei dro: Cymru’r ddwy olwyn. Sgwrs ddifyr oedd hi,…
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Letter from Instow
On an imaginary bridge across Môr Hafren we’d have arrived here in much less than an hour. As it is, we faced a car journey of over four hours. Add the fact that neither of us has been here before,…
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Esther a’r llyffant
Ar ôl hala tipyn o amser yn ddiweddar yn Llanybydder, tynnais i fy nghopi o Y llyffant o’r silff. Nofel hunangofiannol yw hon, sy’n adlewyrchu profiad yr awdur, Ray Evans, o dyfu lan yn ferch fach yn y pentref rhwng…
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Teifi Valley Trail, day 5: Llanybydder to Llandysul
In the Black Lion in Lampeter I have an early breakfast and take the T1 bus back to Llanybydder. Rain has arrived overnight, thin rain that’s no bother now but might be if it continues for hours. The clouds are…
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Teifi Valley Trail, day 4: Lampeter to Llanybydder
These days Lampeter is a quieter place than it was. The main reason is the loss of St David’s College. The closure of a university is a blow for any town, but when that town is small and rural and…
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Teifi Valley Trail, day 3: Llanddewi Brefi to Lampeter
In Llanddewi Brefi the night has been hot and close, and sleep difficult. Awaking before five o’clock, I find it impossible to nod off again; a wood pigeon sets up a constant call as soon as it becomes light. So…