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Planet Magazine plpalanet 1n40 et The Welsh Internationalist April/May 2000 3 In the Screen’s Glow 66 Making Good Boundaries John Barnie Joshua A. Fishman Interviewed by Xabier Erize 6 In Steel and Stone Jonathan Adams and the Wales 76 The Shadow in the Woods Millennium Centre America and Hallowe’en Stephen Evans Ozi Rhys Osmond 14 The Key to Annie’s Room 83 The Counter-Productive Critic Rugby Mania A Reply to John Lovering’s Robert Minhinnick Critique of Objective One Kevin Morgan 19 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 89 How to be Conscious The Latest Theories about Human 20 The Artisan-Translator and the Consciousness Artist-Translator Roger Caldwell John Rutherford 96 † Baroness White 27 Beyond Our Ken What Does London Mean for 98 † Tudor David Wales? Ned Thomas 99 Attitude 33 Innocent Eyes 100 Reviews Naive Realism in Wales Peter Wakelin 120 Scene Music • IT • Theatre • Internet • 42 Seconding the Motion Sport The Poetry of Owen Sheers Claire Powell Poems Billie Livingston (31) Dewi Stephen 47 Vennerberg’s Ghost Jones (60) Anne Stevenson (61) A Short Story Emyr Humphreys Covers: Computer generated images of the Wales Millennium Centre plpalanet 1n41 et The Welsh Internationalist June/July 2000 3 The Arts Council of Wales 56 A Way of Talking to People John Barnie The Debate About High Art Hugh Macpherson 7 Devolution and the Crisis of Representation 62 Creeping Jesus Tony Benn Interviewed by A Short Story Ian Rappel David Callard 16 Inclusivepolitics.con? 65 Revisiting the Athens of Wales The National Assembly Aberdare, Theatre and Disenfranchisement Lila Haines Ruth Shade 21 The Rhyming Detective 75 Waiting for the Barbarians Gwyneth Lewis’s Latest Collection The Waterhouse Report, Section 28 Ruth McElroy and Tolerance Dafydd Roberts 31 Where is the Mainland? Northern Ireland 81 Historian of the Hour Jon Parry Norman Davies’s The Isles: A History Richard Jones 36 Et in Arcadia Ego The Art of Ken Elias 86 † Joseph Herman Ceri Thomas 88 † Will Roberts 43 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 90 Attitude 45 Whose Voice Will It Recognize? 95 Reviews Language and IT Ned Thomas 118 Scene Music • Environment • Art • Performance • 49 Stories Always Have Meanings Sport The Doctor-Patient Relationship Glyn Elwyn Poems Barry Butson (27) Jeremy Hooker (71) Cover art by Ken Elias. Zoo Book I (front): Going Home: Projection (back). plpalanet 1n42 et The Welsh Internationalist August/September 2000 3 Deciduous Earth 54 Cyber Stage John Barnie Ceri Sherlock profiled by Heike Roms 8 Wings over Wales BAe Systems and the Assembly 61 Always Be Closing John Lovering The World of Work Peter Morgan and Angharad James 14 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 69 In the City, a Short Time Ago A Short Story 15 Eavesdropping on the World T.J. Davies Siân James Interviewed by Dewi Roberts 74 The Light of That Day Wales on Video 22 Animal Omega Elfed Owens The Dubious Moral Universe of Michel Houellebecq 83 Turning Labour Around? Andrew Hussey The Political Career of Jim Griffiths Ioan Matthews 32 Crossover States — Material Memory 89 Hay Fever The Art of David Hastie A Festival Diary and Angharad Jones Douglas William Brown Iwan Bala 93 Attitude 42 Andrea’s Kitchen A Short Story 95 Reviews Harriet Richards 117 Scene 46 Dispatches from the Sub- Music • Art • Eisteddfod • Television • Sport Continent Television and Democracy Poems in Bangladesh Robert Minhinnick (28) Moira Duff (72) Mike Sweet Joseph P. Clancy (81) Cover art: Sheltered II by David Hastie. plpalanet 1n43 et The Welsh Internationalist June/July 2000 3 The Arts Council of Wales 56 A Way of Talking to People John Barnie The Debate About High Art Hugh Macpherson 7 Devolution and the Crisis of Representation 62 Creeping Jesus Tony Benn Interviewed by A Short Story Ian Rappel David Callard 16 Inclusivepolitics.con? 65 Revisiting the Athens of Wales The National Assembly Aberdare, Theatre and Disenfranchisement Lila Haines Ruth Shade 21 The Rhyming Detective 75 Waiting for the Barbarians Gwyneth Lewis’s Latest Collection The Waterhouse Report, Section 28 Ruth McElroy and Tolerance Dafydd Roberts 31 Where is the Mainland? Northern Ireland 81 Historian of the Hour Jon Parry Norman Davies’s The Isles: A History Richard Jones 36 Et in Arcadia Ego The Art of Ken Elias 86 † Joseph Herman Ceri Thomas 88 † Will Roberts 43 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 90 Attitude 45 Whose Voice Will It Recognize? 95 Reviews Language and IT Ned Thomas 118 Scene Music • Environment • Art • Performance • 49 Stories Always Have Meanings Sport The Doctor-Patient Relationship Glyn Elwyn Poems Barry Butson (27) Jeremy Hooker (71) Cover art by Ken Elias. Zoo Book I (front): Going Home: Projection (back). plpalanet 1n44 et The Welsh Internationalist December 2000/January 2001 3 The Writer’s Dubious Friends 67 Acting the Maggot John Barnie From a Novel in Progress Kaite O’Reilly 7 Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 75 Books 2000 8 The Uncertain Critic 79 “A Very Good Afternoon for Wales” “Praise” Criticism in Welsh The Lib-Lab Coalition Literary Culture Geoff Mungham Jasmine Donahaye 83 “English for the Children?” 16 The Site Inviolate The Language Debate in California R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) Carol Schwyzer and Philip Schwyzer Walford Davies 88 A World of Difference 31 The View from London Samuel Huntington’s Theory of the Clash The British Art Show 5 of Civilizations Ozi Rhys Osmond David Sullivan 39 The Real Street 95 Attitude Lloyd Robson’s sense of city road Peter Finch 98 Reviews 44 Sale of the New Century 117 Scene “Reforming” Lithuania and Russia Music • Television • Performance • Ian Rappel Art • Sport 55 The Power of Absence Poems Gillian Clarke in Conversation with Tony Conran (29) Gillian Clarke (53) Deryn Deryn Rees-Jones Rees-Jones (61) Cover art: Chintz Girls by Laura Ford 63 Devolution on Hold Paul Frame plpalanet 1n45 et The Welsh Internationalist February/March 2001 3 To Tierra del Fuego and Back 73 Banderas John Barnie Excerpt from a Novel in Progress Craig Osborne 7 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 77 A Place Without Boundaries The Fiction of Christopher Meredith 8 The Real Debt Kirsti Bohata Britain and the Destruction of Zimbabwe 83 “Spitting in the Face of the Neil Thomas Welsh People” The Controversy over Rachel Jones 18 All Hers! and the BBC The Art of Sue Williams Graham Jones Iwan Bala 94 † Frank Roper 25 Direct Activists The Roots of Welsh Rock 95 Attitude Ruth Shade 100 Reviews 36 Aztec Soup A Memoir of the US Presidential 118 Scene Election Campaign Television • Music • Film • Performance Robert Minhinnick • Sport 42 A Visual Diary 2000 Poems Bernard Mitchell Ruth Bidgood (46) Mike Jenkins (57) John Jones (71) Gillian Clarke (76) 49 The Man from Tokyo A Short Story Cover art by Sue Williams. Front : Bit like Alun Richards Drowning Slowly (detail). Back: Falmouth, First Love. 59 How Big’s Your Majority? Diary of the Labour Party Conference Amy Wack plpalanet 1n46 et The Welsh Internationalist April/May 2001 3 The Business Ethos 71 Talons or Feathers John Barnie Sign Language in Wales Ozi Rhys Osmond 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 78 Clones, Designer Babies, and the Human Body Shop 7 Why the Dragon Has No Teeth Roger Caldwell Politics and the Media John Lovering 85 After the Arts Crisis ACW and Cultural Policy 11 Valley Girls Ned Thomas Theatre’s Welsh “Mams” and “Slags” Ruth Shade 90 Very Foreign Parts Judging the Independent Foreign 20 Landmarks and Mysteries Fiction Prize The Art of Bert Isaac Patricia Duncker Sheila Paine 95 † Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos 27 Black Beauty World Heritage Site at Blaenafon 96 Reviews Peter Wakelin 118 Scene 33 Solveig von Schoultz Television • Music • Art • Dance • Sport Introduced by Robin Young Poems 44 Heart-stones John Davies (19) Alan Perry (49) Stephen A Short Story Knight (61) Paul Henry (94) Michael Ponsford Cover art: Dark Blue Hill by Bert Isaac 52 Outside the Coteries Alan Perry in conversation with Stephen Knight 63 Time Travel Storytelling in the American South Pamela Petro plpalanet 1n47 et The Welsh Internationalist June/July 2001 3 Nothing to Do with Me 59 Living in Platonia John Barnie Our Ideas about Time Richard Poole 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 68 Culture and Society 2001-2010 The Assembly and Arts Policy 7 After Foot and Mouth Ned Thomas Peter Midmore 72 Between World and Word 17 Illuminated from Within The Poetry of Niyi Osundare The Art of John Selway Stewart Brown Ozi Rhys Osmond 82 An International Profile for the Arts 24 The Price of Wel sh Internationalism The Rôle of Wales Arts International A Safe Haven for Exiled Writers Tony Deyes Tom Cheesman 87 Too Friendly for Feminism? 28 “Hurrah for the Freedom of The Early Years of the Women’s the Nations!” Movement in South Wales Lily Tobias’s Early Zionism Avril Rolph and Welsh Nationalism Jasmine Donahaye 95 † Sir Harry Secombe 37 Living in Room 101 96 Attitude The Wider Significance of Anne Robinson’s Remarks 98 Reviews Kevin Williams 118 Scene 45 Requiem for a Galician Nationalist Television • Music • Art • Performance • Alfonso R. Castelao’s Things Sport introduced by Craig Patterson Poems Raymond Garlick (12) William Greenway 55 A Disagreement Between Friends (14) Knute Skinner (54) Hugh Macpher- R.S. Thomas, Language and Poetry son (66) Niyi Osundare (79) Raymond Garlick Cover art: Belgian Family No. 3 by John Selway plpalanet 1n48 et The Welsh Internationalist August/September 2001 3 Self-Expressionism 63 Nettles John Barnie A Short Story Mary-Ann Constantine 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 69 Labour’s Welsh Hegemony The General Election 7 Loaded Dice John Osmond Incomers and Racial Attitudes Mike Parker 77 Can We Save Our Fisheries? Sally Bailey 13 How to Become a Millionaire by Bashing the System 86 The Death of the Adjective John Lovering Robert Nisbet 20 Painting the Wind 89 Attitude The Art of Linda Norris Damian Walford Davies 91 Reviews 33 Return to Roots 115 Scene Excerpt from Goodbye, Twentieth Television • Music • Art • Performance • Century Sport Dannie Abse Poems 39 Listening to Each Other Tony Conran (28) Stephen Derwent The Dafydd Glyn Jones Affair Partington (38, 68) A.
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