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  • In Aberystwyth last week I called in the School of Art to see an exhibition, arranged by Mary Lloyd Jones, and organised by Neil Holland and Phil Garratt, as a tribute to her husband, John Jones, who died last year…

  • If you’re like me, at any given time you’ll have several half-read books lying about, probably in different parts of your house or flat.  Each book will have a place-holder inserted to remind you where to resume reading.  Unless you’re…

  • 1 Concrit Llwybr newydd sbon, ei wynebau goncrit yn sgleinio wedi’r glaw.  Aeth y peiriannau mawr a’u dannedd rhwygol wythnos yn ôl.  Clwyf yn ymagor ar yr allt.  Cerrig drylliedig a thalpiau mawr o fwd ar chwâl, yn ddi-hid, ar…

  • The poet and writer Ruth Bidgood died in Rhayader last week, six months short of her hundredth birthday.  She never raised her voice loudly in print, and few people, asked to name five contemporary Welsh poets writing in English, would…

  • Dear Priti Patel I’m writing to you with a simple request: to search your conscience.  Just to avoid doubt, I don’t mean your political calculus.  You don’t need any encouragement to exercise that.  No, I mean your personal moral conscience.…

  • Paintings, not painters, you’ll notice.  And the artists are all safely dead (this avoids treading on the toes of the living).  Third, I wouldn’t claim that these are the best ten paintings.  They’re just works that have given me special…

  • The sandsone ridge of Cefn Bryn is an obvious magnet for painters, but it doesn’t seem to have drawn many creative writers, despite its brooding presence along the backbone of the Gower peninsula.  One exception is Amy Dillwyn, the pioneering…

  • Llynedd, am y tro cyntaf ers blynyddoedd, methais i ddringo i gopa Cadair Idris.  Sa i’n gwbod pam.  Covid a’i ofidiau, siŵr o fod, neu absenoldeb meddwl, neu ohirio oherwydd pwysau eraill.  Ond, o edrych yn ôl, dwi’n teimlo rhyw…

  • The recent return to Nigeria of some of the Benin bronzes from collections across Europe has heightened the debate about ‘repatriating’ museum objects to the places from which they were illegally seized. The finely made bronze plaques and sculptures once…

  • Pont Mirabeau O dan bont Mirabeau rhed afon SeineAc ein serchauOes rhaid imi ddwyn i’m cofLlawenydd wastad yn dilyn y dolur Dechrau nosi taro’r cloc            Treigla’r dyddiau sefyll wna i Law yn llaw arhoswn wyneb yn wynebTra dan y bontEin…

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