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Tag Archives: Wales
Sunken Lands by Gareth E. Rees
Book Review – April 2024 I started my journey with hope that I could contribute in a microscopic way to the groundswell of storytelling that might help us see what has gone wrong with our civilisation and understand what we … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Reviews
Tagged Atlantis, climate change, Cornwall, Fens, Fiji, flooding, global warmimg, lost civilisations, Marshall Islands, Rome, Scilly Isles, sea level rise, The Lowland Hundred, Tuvalu, Wales
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The Wrecking Ball
Not so long ago The Guardian called Wrexham ‘a veritable Paris of what is lost’. For, despite the city’s rich history as a market town and the UNESCO World Heritage Site status of its Pontcysyllte aqueduct, Wrexham is most notable … Continue reading
Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2023
What is psychogeography, anyway? My understanding of the concept is three-fold: it is a theory, a practice and a body of evidence. The most interesting of these, for me, is the body of evidence: the books, works of art and … Continue reading
Brittle With Relics: A History Of Wales 1962 – 1997 by Richard King
Book Review – August 2023 This is a history of a nation determined to survive during crisis, while maintaining the enduring hope that Wales will one day thrive on its own terms. I was looking forward to reading Brittle With … Continue reading
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Tagged Cymdeithas yr Iaith, Cymru, history, Miners' Strike 1984-85, S4C, Senedd, Wales
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Edging the City by Peter Finch
Book Review – January 2023 Circumnavigating the city and then writing home had been on my mind ever since I’d encountered Iain Sinclair’s walk around the M25, London Orbital, which came out in 2002. But it was the Covid crisis … Continue reading
The Half-Life of Snails by Philippa Holloway
Book Review – November 2022 The hollowness of the space like a migraine building behind her eyes. The landscape transformed by absence, defined by it. The Half-Life of Snails is a novel permeated by a sense of place. Philippa Holloway … Continue reading
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Tagged Chernobyl, families, nuclear power, sheep farming, Ukraine, Wales, Wylfa, Ynys Môn
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Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast by Laurence Mitchell
Book Review – December 2021 The idea was to drift west, to etch a furrow in the map of England and Wales. My plan was to walk coast to coast across the country with some sort of agenda, to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, East Anglia, England, liminal spaces, psychogeography, Wales, walking
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A Garden Village
In 1913 the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust proposed an innovative new housing scheme in Wrexham; the first of its kind in Wales. Taking as their inspiration similar schemes at Port Sunlight on the Wirral and Bournville in Birmingham, … Continue reading