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.
We end the third week of Dewithon 2023 with a poem written in 1958 by the Welsh poet, translator and painter Vernon Watkins.
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.
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, present two seasonal offers, look forward to the 2022 Nonfiction Reader Challenge and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
This is the first in a series of light-hearted Dewithon posts concerning literary happenings from the land of poetry and song.
We head into the second week of Wales Readathon 2020 with a poem from a neglected Welsh writer.
Ailbhe Darcy is the overall winner of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award.
The shortlist for the Wales Book of the Year 2019 awards for English and Welsh-language books has been announced.
We launch Wales Readathon 2019 with a poem from Wales’ most famous drifter: W.H. Davies.
A comprehensive checklist of Margaret Atwood’s publications from 1961 to the present day.
In the second of our occasional features about Wales to be posted in the run-up to Dewithon 2019, we look forward to International Dylan Thomas Day on 14th May, and look back at a memorable performance from 2003.
Memories of a remarkable visit to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, almost 18 years ago.
Florence Margaret Smith (1902-1971), known to friends and readers as Stevie Smith, was a highly witty English writer, most famous for her perceptive, clever little poems.