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A Poem by Lynette Roberts

We head into the second week of Wales Readathon 2020 with a poem from a neglected Welsh writer Today I share with you a poem penned by a writer I greatly admire. She was an experimental modernist,...

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DEWITHON 20 WEEK 2: One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard

A few shared thoughts on chapters 5-8 and other aspects of the novel “It was Lisa Top House’s fox fur that attracted our attention […]. We could see its head laughing at us from her shoulders with its...

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Winding Up the Week #112

An end of week recap Given the current situation with coronavirus (COVID-19), I find it uncanny this is issue 112 of WUTW because, as many of you will know, it is a common emergency telephone number in...

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DEWITHON 20 WEEK 3: One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard

A brief recap of chapters 9-11 “Her face was white as chalk, like a face in a coffin, except her eyes were open, and they were shining black like blackcurrants and when she looked at me, they went...

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Winding Up the Week #113

An end of week recap This is a Coronatome Special – so called because it’s a tad longer than usual to keep all you self-isolationers occupied. I hope everyone is coping and keeping safe during these...

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A Poem by Gillian Clarke

As we reach the final week of Wales Readathon 2020, we look at a poem by an award-winning Welsh writer Born in Cardiff in 1937, the Welsh poet and playwright, Gillian Clarke has published several...

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DEWITHON 20 WEEK 4: One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard

A brief recap of chapters 12-15 and a few shared thoughts “Death and madness are themes of the book, and as we peer through the moonlight we gradually realise that we are witnessing a slow descent into...

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Reading Wales 2022

1st-31st March Welcome to the fourth Reading Wales celebration (aka Dewithon 22), a month-long event beginning on Saint David’s Day, during which book lovers from all parts of the world are encouraged...

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Winding Up the Week #213

An end of week recap “My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.” – Dylan Thomas This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read,...

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Are You Looking Forward to Reading Wales 2023?

DEWITHON PLANNER 2023 Dewithon is an opportunity for book bloggers and readers in general around the world to discover Welsh writers and their works (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, in fact...

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