May 2024 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Twitter
Tweets by lonereaderblogCategories
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Tags
- 'Ambulances''
- 'And Other Stories'
- 'Death and the Penguin'
- 'Lightning Beneath the Sea'
- 'Nemesis'
- 'Object Lessons'
- 'Open Door'
- 'Return to Cardiff'
- 'The Last Hit'
- Andrey Kurkov
- Boom Bip
- Cardiff
- Cate Le Bon
- Dannie Abse
- Deborah Levy
- Denis Johnson
- Doctor Zhivago
- education
- Feltrinelli
- fiction
- Grahame Davies
- Green Man Festival
- Gruff Rhys
- H Hawkline
- interview
- Iosi Havilio
- Islet
- James Salter
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Jon McGregor
- Jonny
- Kevin Powers
- Larkin
- literature
- Llwyd Owen
- Love poem
- Lydia Davis
- Moshi Moshi Records
- Music
- National Theatre of Wales
- Neon Neon
- novel
- NTW
- Patrick McGuinness
- Philip Roth
- podcast
- poems
- Poems To Live By
- poetry
- Praxis Makes Perfect
- Raymond Carver
- reading
- review
- Seren
- Shakespeare
- short story
- silence
- Slow Club
- Spillers Records
- Steinbeck
- Steven Millhauser
- Super Furry Animals
- Sweet Baboo
- teaching
- theatre
- The New Yorker
- The Paris Review
- The Whitsun Weddings
- The Yellow Birds
- thinking
- Tim Price
- Wales
- war
- Welsh Book of the Year
- Y Lolfa
Tag Archives: Seren
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
Posted in Uncategorized
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
2 Comments
‘Lightning Beneath the Sea’ by Grahame Davies
Where better to start this blog than with a Welsh writer, with poetry and with an independent publisher. That should give you a taste of where my preferences lie. Grahame Davies is not your introspective Welshman. Despite contributing to Seren’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged 'Lightning Beneath the Sea', Grahame Davies, poetry, review, Seren
4 Comments