Join us as we read literature by and about writers from Wales.
Since it is the first Sunday in March, as well as the second day of Karen’s month-long Reading Wales 2025 event, I will share a poem written by Gillian Clarke about the joys of rising early one Sunday morning before turning to the daily papers and there finding news of war, famine, cruelty and terrorism.
Here I share a few thoughts and feelings about Dewithon (aka Reading Wales) and its future.
The second this year in a series of short posts highlighting cultural and literary chatter from the land of poetry and song.
The first this year in a series of short posts highlighting cultural and literary chatter from the land of poetry and song.
We celebrate the first week of Reading Wales 2024 with two verses from a well-known poem by Sir (Albert) Cynan Evans-Jones.
Reading Wales 2024 has started! Here we display your Dewithon-related posts. Please share your reviews, features, interviews etc. with the book blogging community. Check back often for updates.
Ahead of Dewithon 2024, which commences on 1st March (Saint David’s Day), we make reading plans and invite members of the international book blogging community to immerse themselves in the literature of Wales.
We end the third week of Dewithon 2023 with a poem written in 1958 by the Welsh poet, translator and painter Vernon Watkins.
The first this year in a series of short posts highlighting cultural and literary chatter from the land of poetry and song.
Reading Wales 2023 has started! Here we display your Dewithon-related posts. Please share your reviews, features, interviews etc. with the book blogging community. Check back often for updates.
We commence the first week of Reading Wales 2023 (and celebrate St. David’s Day) with a poem written by Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales 2008-2016.
Ahead of Dewithon 2023, which commences on 1st March (Saint David’s Day), we make reading plans, discuss our national flower and invite members of the international book blogging community to immerse themselves in the literature of Wales.
A brief introduction and a few shared thoughts on my book choice for Reading Wales 2022: Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams.
The second in a series of short posts highlighting cultural and literary chatter from the land of poetry and song.
We head into the second week of Dewithon 2022 with a poem from a fiery Welsh nationalist poet and Anglican priest who believed in “the true Wales of my imagination”.
The first this year in a series of short posts highlighting cultural and literary chatter from the land of poetry and song.
Reading Wales 2022 has started! Here we display your Dewithon-related posts. Please share your reviews, features, interviews etc. with the book blogging community. Check back often for updates.
We commence the first week of Reading Wales 2022 with a poem written by a Welsh-language poet of the First World War, Hedd Wyn.
Ahead of Dewithon 2022, which commences on 1st March (Saint David’s Day), we make reading plans and discuss a sinister face in an old lady’s shawl!
This is the second in a series of light-hearted Dewithon posts concerning literary happenings from the land of poetry and song.