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Tag Archives: Dannie Abse
Dannie
On a Sunday afternoon this year, I received an email from a close friend with the simple title, ‘Dannie’. I understood at once what it meant. One of the greatest Welsh voices of the last seventy years had finally been … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Return to Cardiff', A Winter Visit, Dannie Abse, education, Larkin, literature, poetry, Postcard to his Wife, reading, Reference Back, review, Seren, Speak Old Parrot, teaching, The Malham Bird, The Presence, The Whitsun Weddings, Wales, Welsh Retrospective
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Cultural Capital
Cardiff has never been handed the title European Capital of Culture but it hardly needs it. Take the city’s most striking landmark. Cardiff Bay might not be to everyone’s taste yet the poetry on the Wales Millennium Centre can’t fail … Continue reading
Posted in Cardiff
Tagged 'Return to Cardiff', Cardiff, Dafydd James, Dannie Abse, De Gabay, European Capital of Culture, First Thursday, Gruff Rhys, Gwyneth Lewis, Lloyd Robson, Llwyd Owen, Llwyth, National Theatre of Wales, Neon Neon, Peter Finch, Rhian Edwards, Seren Books, Welsh Millennium Centre
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