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Valletta and the Year of Changes

Valletta and the Year of Changes

For Valletta Stowaway, (a fiery busy little mouse who speaks her mind), it’s an extremely dangerous and difficult year. But surprisingly, extraordinary and good things happen too… Simone’s first children’s book – the adventures of the Stowaway mouse family and their...
Notions of Hiraeth

Notions of Hiraeth

You are cordially invited to an evening ofpoetry and writing related to the Welsh word Hiraethat The Seagull on Wednesday 12 April6pm to 7.30pm. Simone will be reading her poem specially commissioned for the event; ‘For him there was no longing’

Checking up on dad

You needed to see it for yourselves – the last timewasn’t so bad, after all. You’d taken him outto eat. He’d had some, spilled his half of shandy,seemed pleased at news of next year’s wedding. When you drove him back, he’d not asked you in.You could live...
Hares

Hares

I have a hare on the sitting room wall. It’s painted by Cerys – that’s Cerys Susannah Rees, who’s an amazingly talented artist and who lives in Carmarthenshire, like me, but at the other end of it, near Llandeilo. Happy happenstance drew me to her nearly two years ago...
Thanqs for ‘22

Thanqs for ‘22

Thanks are due to:- Mike Jenkins, editor of Gwyrthryfel/ Uprising, an anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Wales, published by Culture Matters. My poem – ‘To my Suffragette’ – was included in this: Howard and Marilyn Timms of the Wildfire Words ezine team for...