Tag: Ystrad Fflur

How to make an icon

November 22, 2024 0 Comments
How to make an icon

The three of us were talking, as we strolled along the front at Porthcawl the other day, about modern icons.  J. had just been for a return visit to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, so the Angel of the North in Gateshead soon came up in the conversation.  Antony Gormley’s great weathered steel figure is over twenty-five years old, […]

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Ruth Bidgood at Ystrad Fflur

March 12, 2022 3 Comments
Ruth Bidgood at Ystrad Fflur

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 probably have chosen her.  But the poems she wrote, in a steady stream over forty […]

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