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Welsh (Plural)
Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales is a 2022 Welsh non-fiction book. Edited by Darren Chetty, Hanan Issa, Grug Muse, and Iestyn Tyne, the book gathers an anthology of essays about Welsh identity and its future. Summary The book contains 19 essays from various Welsh writers, including Hanan Issa, Joe Dunthorne, Mike Parker, Niall Griffiths, Marvin Thompson, Morgan Owen, Iestyn Tyne and Cerys Hafana. In an interview with the BBC, Issa stated that book originated in part from "frustrations of how narrow the perception of Welshness is" while Chetty stated in an interview with The Bookseller that "the three Cs of castles, coal and choirs are all important to thinking about present-day Welshness, but they are far from the whole story." Reception Jude Rogers of ''The Guardian'' wrote that the essays in the book "stress that Wales is no utopia" and that "reading these voices under the label of Welshness is an energising experience, nevertheless, reminding us of how f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanan Issa
Hanan Issa (born 1986/1987) is a Welsh– Iraqi poet, film-maker, scriptwriter and artist. She is the current National Poet of Wales, and the first Muslim to hold this title. Early life and education Issa grew up in Cardiff, Wales, the eldest of six children. Her mother Karen is white Welsh and her father Ala is Muslim Iraqi. She grew up listening to her Welsh grandparents recited poetry and absorbing folklore and storytelling from the cultural traditions of both sides of her family. She started to write poems from the age of six and later studied English Literature at Cardiff University. In 2016, the then Prime Minister David Cameron made deeply uninformed comments about Muslim women, which made her angry. Issa shared a poem she had written to express this anger with a friend, who encouraged her to share the poem on Facebook. She received such a positive response that it gave her the confidence to take her poetry into the public domain. Poetry Her first solo publication w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Dunthorne
Joe Dunthorne (born 14 January 1982) is a Welsh novelist, poet and journalist. He made his name with his novel ''Submarine'' (2008), made into a film in 2010. His second novel, ''Wild Abandon'' (2011), won the RSL Encore Award. A selection of his poems was published in 2010 in the '' Faber New Poets'' series. He published first solo collection of poems, titled ''O Positive'', in 2019. Education Joseph Oliver Dunthorne was born in Swansea, Wales on 14 January 1982. He has two sisters, Anna and Leah. Dunthorne was educated at Olchfa School, Swansea before going on to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He received BA and MA degrees in Creative Writing from UEA. In the final year of his BA course, he began writing his debut novel ''Submarine''. While studying for his MA at UEA, he won the university's inaugural Curtis Brown Prize for ''Submarine''. Career Dunthorne's first novel ''Submarine'', in which a teenager records with comedy and anguish h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Parker (writer)
Mike Parker (born December 1966, in Birmingham) is a British travel writer, living near Machynlleth in mid Wales. He grew up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire and graduated in 1989 in English and Drama from Westfield College, University of London. He was the co-author of the '' Rough Guide to Wales'', and has also written books on four British cities, and on the gay scenes of Scotland, Ireland and Northern England. In addition, Parker has worked as a stand-up comedian. After moving to Wales in spring 2000, he became involved in television, writing and presenting a one-off Saint David's Day special for HTV Wales in 2002. This led to him being commissioned to write and present two series of ''Coast to Coast'', where Parker took twelve journeys in different boats around the Welsh coast. He made four series of ''Great Welsh Roads'' for HTV Wales, which saw Parker and his dog tour the country in a camper van. Since 2007, he has concentrated on writing narrative non-fiction books that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niall Griffiths
Niall Griffiths (born 1966) is an English author of novels and short stories, set predominantly in Wales. His works include the novels ''Grits'' and ''Sheepshagger'', travel guides to Aberystwyth and Liverpool, and a book of poetry. He has won the Wales Book of the Year award twice, for ''Stump'' in 2004 and ''Broken Ghost'' in 2020. Life Griffiths was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, but had a long family link to Welsh roots in West Wales. As a nine-year-old boy Griffiths found a second-hand copy of a novel by Rhondda writer Ron Berry in a junk shop. Berry, who wrote from the viewpoint of the industrial working class, but in a more earthy and centred style than many of his more celebrated peers, "spoke" to Griffiths who was captured by the language and style of the writing. In future years Griffiths continued to cite Berry as a major influence, along with writers Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr. In 1976 his family emigrated to Australia, but returned three years later aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Thompson
Marvin Thompson (born ) is a British writer living in Wales. His poem "The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22)" won the National Poetry Competition 2020, announced in March 2021. Biography Marvin Thompson was born in London, England, to Jamaican parents and now lives in Torfaen, Wales. Thompson's debut poetry collection ''Road Trip'' was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2020. Described by ''The Guardian'' as an "invigorating journey through complexities of black British family life", the collection was selected as one of '' The Telegraph's'' Poetry Books of the Year, and was nominated for the Wales Book of the Year 2021. In March 2021, Thompson won the National Poetry Competition 2020 with his poem "The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22)", dedicating his win to his children, his parents and "anyone who has felt discrimination pressing on their ribs; air being squeezed out of their lungs." The bible verse referenced reads "But the fruit of the Spirit is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerys Hafana
Cerys Hafana is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Machynlleth, Wales. They are a member of AVANC ( (English: The Youth Folk Ensemble of Wales)). In 2022, they released the album ''Edyf'', based on songs found in the National Library of Wales. The album was shortlisted for the 2022-23 Welsh Music Prize and the Welsh-language album of the year. ''The Guardian'' named it one of the top ten folk albums of 2022. They contributed an essay to the 2022 anthology Welsh (Plural). The essay was met with a controversial reception. Reception Paul Carr and Robert Smith of the University of South Wales have described Hafana as "one of the most original voices in contemporary Welsh folk music." Jude Rogers of ''The Guardian'' has described them as "a master of the Welsh triple harp" who "explores resonances from the past that connect with the modern day." Personal life Hafana describes themself as ''queer'', not fitting into the gender binary, and uses ''they/them'' pronouns. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales Arts Review
''Wales Arts Review'' is a critical writing hub for Wales. Originally published fortnightly, the site has published daily since 2016. It offers a critique, by Welsh and Wales-based writers, of various social and cultural aspects of Wales. History The ''Wales Arts Review'' was founded in 2012 by Editors Gary Raymond, Phil Morris, Dean Lewis and Dylan Moore as a successor to the literary magazine ''The Raconteur''. Founded on the principal of providing a community of writers and artists a high quality critical coverage of the arts in Wales, its core function is to build a platform for a new generation of Welsh critics to engage with the wider world through writing about and vigorously debating books, theatre, film, music, the visual arts and the media. In partnership with Wales Arts International, the Welsh Books Council and the Arts Council of Wales, ''Wales Arts Review'' has quickly established itself in a central role in the new Welsh culture of arts criticism. Features ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nation
A nation is a type of social organization where a collective Identity (social science), identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory, or society. Some nations are constructed around ethnicity (see ethnic nationalism) while others are bound by political constitutions (see civic nationalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. Benedict Anderson defines a nation as "an Imagined community, imagined political community […] imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion", while Anthony D. Smith defines nations as cultural-political communities that have become conscious of their autonomy, unity and particular interests. ''Black's Law Dictionary'' also defines nation as a community of pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribune (magazine)
''Tribune'' is a democratic socialist political magazine founded in 1937 and published in London, initially as a newspaper, then converting to a magazine in 2001. While it is independent, it has usually supported the Labour Party from the left. Previous editors at the magazine have included Aneurin Bevan, the minister of health who spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service, former Labour leader Michael Foot, and writer George Orwell, who served as literary editor. From 2008 it faced serious financial difficulties until it was purchased by ''Jacobin'' in late 2018, shifting to a quarterly publication model. Since its relaunch the number of paying subscribers has passed 15,000, with columns from high-profile socialist politicians such as former leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain Pablo Iglesias and former Bolivian President Evo Morales. In January 2020, it was used as the platform on which Rebecca Long-B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
