This week, as we kick off Reading Wales 2023, we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, reveal this year’s flowery St David’s Day Google Doodle and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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 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”.
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.
Literature Wales has announced the Shortlist for the English-language Wales Book of the Year Awards 2021.
My book for Dewithon 2021 is My Favourite Stories of Wales, edited by the late Jan Morris, one of the finest writers Wales has produced in the post-war era.
In week three of Wales Readathon 21, we look at a poem about the lure of the open sea by the first National Poet of Wales.
We celebrate the first week of Wales Readathon 2021 with a poem written by the current National Poet of Wales.
Wales Readathon 2021 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.
The shortlist for the Wales Book of the Year 2020 awards for both English and Welsh-language books has been announced.
As we reach the final week of Wales Readathon 2020, we look at a poem by an award-winning Welsh writer.
Wales Readathon 2020 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 frequent updates.
We launch Wales Readathon 2019 with a poem from Wales’ most famous drifter: W.H. Davies.
Marion Eames’ text is enlightening, absorbing and accessible to all readers – an ideal primer for English-speakers wishing to discover the works of Welsh writers.
In this, the third of my occasional features about Wales to be posted in the run-up to Dewithon 2019, we look at an informative little book about Welsh literature.
Song Castle is an exuberant caper through 12th-century Wales in the company of poets and musicians from all corners of the known world as they gather to compete for a permanent place at a Welsh Prince’s table.