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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. Mary Murphy (54) Ned Thomas Barry Butson (61) M.A. Schaffer (75) Cover art: Flaming Shore by Linda Norri s 44 Cardiff Mix Peter Finch

55 A Welshman Disguised as a Londoner A Profile of Iain Sinclair Richard Jones plpalanet 1n49 et The Welsh Internationalist

October/November 2001

3 The Ratchet of Violence 51 Tracking Down The Upstairs Donkey John Barnie A Celebration of Jan Morris’s Writings Paul Clements 8 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 59 Singing the Sunned Day’s Song The Language Crisis 9 Building Castles in the Sand Iwan Llwyd Tourism and the Welsh Language Dylan Phillips 65 Closing Time in the West George Steiner and the Apocalypse 17 Dance and the Nation Roger Caldwell The Challenge Facing The Dance Company of Wales 72 The Future Face of Kosovo? Susan Jones Geoff Mungham

24 From Oceanics 78 Two Stories by Zafer Senocak ’ A Work in Progress Introduced by Robert Minhinnick Tom Cheesman

30 Men in Flight 87 Cooking in the Country The Paintings of James Donovan Profile of a Chef-Patron Tony Curtis Richard Poole

37 What Does Your Bus Say? 95 Responsible for Ourselves Ozi Rhys Osmond Assembly Politics Paul Frame 43 “Almost a Separate Country” Culture and Regionalism in 99 Attitude N-E England Neil Evans 101 Reviews

48 The Glyn Affair 116 Scene Television • Music • Art • Llythyrau at Seimon Glyn Performance • Sport Owain Wilkins Poems David Greenslade (63) Chris Kinsey (93)

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December 2001/January 2002

3 Judge Dredd 62 Diagnosing the Blue Dragon Blues In Conversation with The Dilemma of the Welsh Conservatives John Barnie Michael Benbough-Jackson

8 The Planet Cartoon 70 The Naming of Things Peter Roberts The Art of Elfyn Lewis and Neale Howells 9 Globalisation and the Death of Iwan Bala Diversity Angharad Penrhyn Jones 78 The Attitude Award 2001

21 Political Troubadour 79 Molly’s Missing Dafydd Iwan Interviewed by A Short Story Damian Walford Davies Arthur Winfield Knight

28 Liberty versus Fraternity 86 Through the Magic Door The Cultural Context of the New Chris Torrance Interviewed by Crusade Lloyd Robson David Barnes 92 Where is Welsh? 32 The Outsider The Dearth of Welsh Linguists The Film Career of Stanley Baker Robert D. Borsley Julian Upton 96 Attitude 38 Dam and Be Damned Opposition to the Narmada Dam 99 Reviews Phil Thomas 115 Scene Television • Music • Art • 44 Today in Fishguard Performance • Photography • Sport A Profile of John Sparkes Owain Wilkins Poems Margaret Lloyd (50) Theodor Fontane tr. Ned Thomas (60) Meg Plumb 53 In a Muslim Girls’ School (68) Byron Beynon (84) Wayne Thomas (85) Janet Dent Cover art: Gwawr (detail) by Elfyn Lewis plpalanet 1n51 et The Welsh Internationalist

February/March 2002

3 “Exterminate all the Brutes!” 61 Castles of a Different Kind John Barnie Out-of-Town Shopping Robert Isaac 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 69 The Black Window Suicide and Mental Illness 7 An Afghan Optimist Kate Baillie Ali Wardak interviewed by Sharif Gemie 74 Re-inventing Tradition? Crafts in the “New” Rural Economy 17 This is What Democracy Anne-Marie Sherwood Looks Like Anti-Capitalism 81 Filling the Policy Void Ian Rappel Think-Tanks and the Assembly Alys Thomas 25 One Boy’s War A Memoir 86 Snakes and Ladders Raymond Garlick Problems of Welsh Learners Lynda Pritchard Newcombe 35 The Parlour A Short Story 93 † Robin Reeves (1941-2001) Caron Wyn Edwards 94 Attitude 39 Terrorism and the New World Order 96 Reviews Bruce Clunies Ross 118 Scene Television • Music • Art • 50 The Demon at the Gate Performance • Sport The Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins Robert Macdonald Poems Zoe Skoulding (32) Damian Walford Davies (38) Ken Jones ( 44) Mark 57 Parish Boy Roper (46) Teleri Williams (48) Richard A Short Story Poole (56) Greg Hill (60) Dai Vaughan Cover art: The Welsh Shepherdess by Clive Hicks-Jenkins plpalanet 1n52 et The Welsh Internationalist

April/May 2002

3 Home to Roost 63 “Straight is not the Way” John Barnie A Profile of Mervyn Morris Stewart Brown 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 72 Creation-Saving Devices Aldous Huxley and Consumerism 6 Through the Looking Glas Nicholas Murray Glas Cymru and Railtrack Steve Davies 78 Never Marry a Man who Can’t Pluck a Pheasant 11 Broadcasting’s Big Brother A Short Story OFCOM’s Implications Siân Melangell Dafydd Kevin Williams 84 War’s End 15 CCTV Elegy for Rebecca Storrs The Theory of Democratic Peace Reflections on a Murder David Sullivan Robert Minhinnick 90 Devolved Government in Action 21 Tony Curtis, Seamus Heaney The Case of the Design of the Assembly and Confidential Poetry Building Anne Stevenson Julia Edwards

35 Capel Celyn 94 Attitude A Collective Trauma Visualised Iwan Bala 97 Reviews

44 The Future of the Welsh 118 Scene Television • Music • Art • Language Performance • Sport Harold Carter Poems Jane Blank (27) Greg Hill (29) 52 One Boy’s War Fiona Owen (30) Nan Lisa Craig (43) A Memoir Mervyn Morris (69) Raymond Garlick Cover photo: Untitled, from the series 58 Tynged yr Iaith — Forty Years On Landscapes from the Tryweryn Valley by Richard Ned Thomas Page plpalanet 1n53 et The Welsh Internationalist

June/July 2002

3 Connections 68 Literary Activists John Barnie Recent Trends in the Welsh-Language Novel 5 The Planet Cartoon Owain Wilkins Peter Roberts 73 Luigi 6 Reflections in the “Welsh” Mirror A Short Story Paul Starling, Simon Brooks Emyr Humphreys and the Welsh Language Patrick McGuinness 79 One Boy’s War A Memoir 13 Intimate Moments Raymond Garlick Jean Earle 1909-2002 Francesca Rhydderch 87 David Irving and the Art of Self- Delusion 20 Does the University of Wales Iain Lewis Have a Future? Michael Cohen and Colwyn 92 Attitude Williamson 96 Reviews 34 Light Subversive The Art of Ceri Thomas 118 Scene Caroline Juler Television • Music • Performance • Art • Sport 40 The Fair Porthcawl’s Coney Beach Poems Amusement Park Christopher Meredith (32) Anne Robert Minhinnick Cluysenaar (46) Alexandra Duce Mills (48) David Kennedy (67) Paul Groves (85) 52 Striding Dill Jones Siân Melangell Dafydd (86) Portrait of a Jazz Pianist David N. Thomas Cover art: Mo(u)rning over Cwmdonkin by Ceri Thomas 62 Old Bones A Short Story Alun Richards plpalanet 1n54 et The Welsh Internationalist

August/September 2002

3 White Tie and Diamonds 66 ITV — Past and Present John Barnie Kevin Williams

6 The Planet Cartoon 71 Spinning the Web Peter Roberts The Use of the Internet in Welsh Politics Matt Greenough 7 Keeping Up Appearances Welsh-Language Provision in 76 The Path to Porthgain Higher Education A Short Story Richard Wyn Jones, Delyth Robert Nisbet Morris, Dilwyn Roberts-Young, Gareth Popkins, Einir Young 80 Life, Death and Immortality The Opposed Positions of Science 16 The Absent Presence and Religion In Search of Milosevic Roger Caldwell Peter Morgan 87 After Work 22 Pushing the Boundaries Can There be a Radical Politics of Work? Archbishop Rowan Williams Mihail Dafydd Evans interviewed by Owain Wilkins 92 Attitude

41 Cultural Exorcism 96 Reviews The Art of Tim Davies Osi Rhys Osmond 118 Scene Television • Music • Performance • Art • 48 The Great Wen Rides Again Sport The Problem of London Christopher Harvie Poems Pamela Stewart (33) Anna Wigley (35) 55 After the Taliban Kathy Miles (38) Yvonne Lake (40) Jean Afghanistan Now Earle (86) Ali Wardak and Sharif Gemie Cover art: Tim Davies, A Study for Refugee: 62 Jubilee Lovers and Strangers (front); Burnt Wall , detail The View from Llanystumdwy (back). Jan Morris plpalanet 1n55 et The Welsh Internationalist

October/November 2002

3 Unfinished Business 65 Gwerin John Barnie Photographs by Illtud Ll y∧ r Dunsford Introduced by Owain Wilkins 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 71 A New World Order? The Ambitions of New Labour 7 Shock Finding! Robert Minhinnick How the Assembly is Shaping Up John Lovering 78 Hiraeth and the Recoil from Theory Against Post-Structuralism 13 Structure without Foundation Stephen Logan Economic Development Strategy David Fanning 86 In a Secret Room? The Quakers in Wales 20 Rosa Velos Stevie Krayer A Short Story Harriet Richards 91 Humanity the Only Boundary Converting to Islam 28 Global Awareness or Business Owain Clarke as Usual? Johannesburg World Summit 95 Attitude Morgan Parry 96 Reviews 34 Not the Stillness The Paintings of Brendan Burns 115 Scene Iwan Bala Television • Music • Art • Performance • Sport 42 A Caribbean Literary Life A Profile of Ian McDonald Poems Stewart Brown Wayne Thomas (25) Anne Stevenson (26) Ian McDonald (49) R. Williams Parry, 58 The War on Welsh trans. R. Gerallt Jones (53) Mike Jenkins (77) Patrick McGuinness Cover art: Not the Stillness... (right-hand panel 60 The Great Onanist of a diptych) by Brendan Burns A Short Story Alan Perry plpalanet 1n56 et The Welsh Internationalist

December 2002/January 2003

3 Great to be Back 68 Newport Isn’t Cardiff John Barnie Wales’s Newest City Peter Finch 8 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 75 Oh, Didn’t She Ramble! Jen Wilson and the Women in Jazz 9 The Welsh Elite Archive Iain Lewis Mike Dewe

19 In Search of Angels 83 Putting a Price on the Red Kite Bernard Mitchell The Environment and the Market Peter Midmore 24 Drawing the Bow Excerpt from a New Novel 89 Attitude Guy Vanderhaeghe 93 Reviews 32 The Ironic Sublime The Art of Mariele Neudecker 116 Scene Bernard van Lierop Television • Music • Film • Performance • Art • Sport 39 Walking in Dark Interiors Glenda Beagan Interviewed by Poems Mary Greenall Nigel Jenkins (14) Barry Butson (52) Tony Curtis (74) 46 Tales of Transformation Broadcasting and the New Age Cover art: Unrecallable Now by Mariele Kevin Williams Neudecker

56 Ninian Park Blues Confessions of a Bluebirds Fan Dannie Abse plpalanet 1n57 et The Welsh Internationalist

February/March 2003

3 Consuming Ourselves 55 Never Be Dependent on a Man John Barnie The Life of “Countess Barcynska” Liz Jones 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 63 “Concretising” New Roads to Hell The Bureaucratisation of Language 6 Where is the Welsh Tommy Anne Stevenson Sheridan? Assembly Politics 70 Changes Steve Davies A Short Story Huw Lawrence 12 Essex Man’s History Simon Schama’s History of Britain 77 An Action Plan for Welsh Neil Evans and Christopher Harvie Ned Thomas and Heini Gruffudd

18 Englishisation or Not? 82 The Other Side of the Fence Danish Language Policy The Achievements and Demise of Teliesyn Niels Davidsen-Nielsen Colin Thomas

26 Saints, Pebbles and Unanswered 89 A Critical Danger to Peace Questions Why the Left Misunderstands the New The Art of Susan Adams Terrorism Rex Harley Bob Glaberson

32 What’s Happening at The Western 96 Attitude Mail ? Kevin Williams 98 Reviews

37 Tabloid in a Broadsheet Body? 115 Scene Television • Music • Art • Design and The Western Mail Performance • Sport John Foscolo Poems Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch (23) 46 Titanic — With Added Lava M.A. Schaffner (24) Caroline Gourlay (25) A Brush with Hollywood Anna Wigley (42) Peter Morgan Cover art: My Tomb on Ynys Enlli by Susan 50 Coal Faces Adams Imaging the Afan Valley Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne plpalanet 1n58 et The Welsh Internationalist

April/May 2003

3 The Invasion of Iraq 49 “If it Bleeds it Leads” John Barnie Assembly News Coverage Stephen Cushion and David Morgan 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 60 Building a National Team The Rise of Cardiff City FC 6 In Whose Interest? Rhobat Bryn Jones A National Identity Card Philip A. Thomas 69 Blurring the Edges Art, Craft and Design 13 Living Among the English Robert Harding W.G. Sebald Interviewed by Peter Morgan 79 Who Controls Local Radio? David Barlow 19 Strange Encounters Our Assumptions About Race 85 The Long Shadow Charlotte Williams Religion and Identity Paul Chambers 25 The Disappearance of Magic? The Art of Charles Byrd 91 Living with Each Other Jeni Williams Cultural Diversity Ian Davidson 32 Can New Labour Save Wales from Itself? 97 Attitude Gerald Taylor 100 Reviews 37 The Writer A Short Story 118 Scene Television • Music • Art • Simon Howells Performance • Sport

43 Painting the Edge Poems Zoë Skoulding (56) David Lloyd Sidney Nolan in Wales (65) Selwyn Pritchard (96) Simon Pierse Cover art: Collage by Charles Byrd plpalanet 1n59 et The Welsh Internationalist

June/July 2003

3 Tangled Up in Lies 57 The Answer is in the Stone John Barnie Slate Art Judy Buswick 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 64 The Shrinking of Language Nicholas Murray 7 “Racism” in Welsh Politics Patrick McGuinness 69 The Domino Effect A Swansea Rehabilitation Programme 13 Hugs and Tears Patrick Ellis Assembly Election Results Gerald Taylor 74 Human Nature and its Limits Roger Caldwell 19 The Blue Room The Art of Glenys Cour 81 Severed Heads Peter Wakelin Oloff de Wet’s Bust of Dylan Thomas David N. Thomas 27 Nomen A Short Story 88 The New Europe Emyr Humphreys Wales and the Enlarged EU Eluned Haf 31 I’m a Voter, Get me Out of Here! Media and the Election 94 Attitude Kevin Williams 95 Reviews 36 Heart of the Country Jeremy Moore and William 118 Scene Television • Music • Art • Condry Performance • Sport

47 No Place Like Home? Poem Ruth Bidgood (44) Fiona Owen (56) Space in Contemporary Welsh Chris Kinsey (87) Fiction Tony Bianchi Cover art: Golden Bowl 1 by Glenys Cour plpalanet 1n60 et The Welsh Internationalist

August/September 2003

3 Adjusting the Focus 56 Solomon Hughes and the Aberdare John Barnie Revival A Short Story 6 The Planet Cartoon Michael Ponsford Peter Roberts 66 Maps and Travellers 7 Cultivating Irreverence Writers as Geographers Leo Abse interviewed by Tony Bianchi Jasmine Donahaye 75 Cold War Classrooms 18 Home-thoughts... Learning Russian During National A Short Story Service Wyn Hobson Ned Thomas

23 “What’s He Building in There?” 81 Voices from Quebec Public Art John Canning Iwan Bala 85 A Sense of Estrangement 34 From Oceanics The Crisis of Poetry A Work in Progress Stephen Logan Robert Minhinnick 91 † Phil Williams 40 The Welsh Weakest Link Language Revival 93 Attitude Bobi Jones 95 Reviews 44 City Lights A San Francisco Anniversary 118 Scene Television • Music • Art • Paul Clements Performance • Sport

48 Welsh Wrappers and DJs Poems Caroline Gourlay (30) Fred Book Design Johnston (31) Byron Beynon (33) Jeni John Harris Williams (80)

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October/November 2003

3 Sweeping Up After the Party 52 The Seed Thrower’s Story John Barnie An Interview with Andrew Lincoln Sharif Gemie 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 64 Children’s Views on White Wales Jonathan Scourfield and Andrew 7 Art Histories Davies The Disputed Territory of Welsh Art History 71 Eddie Ladd and Modern Performance Peter Wakelin Alyce von Rothkirch

15 Driver’s Licence 78 Wanted — The Right Tools for the Job A Profile of Rob Brydon, The Future of Welsh Politics Creator of Marion and Geoff Alan Sandry Liz Jones 82 Sisyphus Goes to School 24 Papa Don’t Allow No Live Welsh Writing in English and the Music Here Education System The Licensing Act Greg Hill Philip Freeman 86 Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau 30 Reconstructing Germany The Role of the National Anthem Goronwy Rees and the British Craig Owen Jones Military Government, 1945 John Harris 91 Attitude

38 The Exile of Tangier 93 Reviews A Profile of Mohamed Choukri Andrew Hussey 117 Scene Television • Music • Art • Performance • Sport 44 Furniture A Short Story Poems Stephen Knight (20) Siân James Richard Poole (69)

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December 2003/January 2004

3 An Unexpected Visitor 53 Painting Out of Solitude, John Barnie The Art of Clyde H olmes Mary Burdett-Jones 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 60 France’s Black August Quentin Daniel 7 9/11, Neo-Liberalism and the New Conformity 68 Einstein’s Mice John Lovering A Short Story John Harrison 18 Saving Plywood City? Blaenafon, the Booktown 74 Ukraine: Europe’s Borderland Liz Jones Nick Po well

23 “Buried Without Tears” 80 Playing it Cool The Death of the Welsh Mirror Poetry and Jazz in Britain James Thomas Tony Curtis

28 The Thread of Poetry 89 Attitude Hilary Llewellyn-Williams interviewed by 93 Reviews David Hart 118 Scene Television • Music • Art • 39 Doing the Ayatollah Performance • Sport Football and the Construction of Manhood Poems Hilary Llewellyn-Williams (35) Steffan Morgan Paul Groves (59) Barry Butson (64)

45 Things as They Were Cover art: Light Dive by Clyde Holmes A Memoir Alun Richards plpalanet 1n63 et The Welsh Internationalist

February/March 2004

3 The Dreamers 59 Things as They Were John Barnie A Memoir Alun Richards 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 70 The Apostle of Liberty The Political Thinking of Richard Price 6 Realpolitik, Galician Style Paul Frame The Aftermath of the Prestige Disaster 80 Landscapes of Memory Gabriel Rei-Doval The Renewal of History Neil Evans 15 Waiting on the Butler The Monarchy and the Media 87 † Ronan Huon James Thomas 88 Attitude 19 Messages A Short Story 91 Reviews Glenda Beagan 118 Scene Television • Music • Art • 27 The Death of the Diaspora Performance • Sport Geraint Evans Poems Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch (39) 34 Reclaiming Varteg Christine Evans (41) Margaret Lloyd (66) An Innovative Land Russell Collier (78) Reclamation Project Janet Brady Cover art: Protest march in Madrid by Roberto Ribao 45 A Certain Sense of Mission The Artes Mundi Prize Iwan Bala

53 Kissinger or Kant? The USA’s Relationship with Europe David Sullivan plpalanet 1n64 et The Welsh Internationalist

April/May 2004

3 Illusions in the Hall of Mirrors 58 Behind the Grand Idea John Barnie International Brigades Then and Now Ned Thomas 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 67 Cat Man A Short Story 6 Coming Out Fighting Norman Schwenk Patrick McGuinness Interviews John Marek 71 Exploring the Alternative The Anti-Capitalism Movement 13 Failing the Public Ian Rappel The Media and Hutton Kevin Williams 78 Destinations of the Heart Romanticism in Anglo-Welsh Poetry 20 Bolinas Stephen Logan Jan Morris 85 Making Devolution Work 26 All Shall Have Prizes Huw Evans The Vogue for the Literary Prize Nicholas Murray 89 † Islwyn Ffowc Elis

32 Maker or Mocker? 90 Attitude Trends in Contemporary Art Osi Rhys Osmond 91 Reviews

39 The Human Rights Act 117 Scene Television • Music • Art • The Case of the Cynon Valley Society • Performance • Sport Philip Thomas Poems Jeremy Hooker (23) Anna Wigley 45 Things as They Were (43) Sam Adams (64) Alun Richards Cover photo: The 7th Muslim Brigade parad - 52 A Jewish Boyhood In Cardiff ing in Zenica, Bosnia in 1995 Leonard Minkes plpalanet 1n65 et The Welsh Internationalist

June/July 2004

3 Doing a Good Job 63 The Truth of the Text John Barnie Art in the Age of Science Roger Caldwell 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 69 By Their Fruits... European Charter for Minority 6 With God on His Sid e Languages The “War on Terror” George Jones Bruce Clunies Ross 72 Rapid Population Growth 15 The Cradle of Flesh Hamish Richards The Art of Shani Rhys James Jeni Williams 83 Destinations of the Heart Romanticism in Anglo-Welsh Poetry 23 Poetry of an Unrewarding Stephen Logan Marriage? R.S. Thomas’s Poems to His Wife 89 “In Town Too Often” Tom Ellis The Probation Service in Powys John Minkes 34 A Question of Power The Richard Commission Report 97 Attitude John Osmond 99 Reviews 41 Sara Preis’s Sin A Short Story 118 Scene Television • Music • Eigra Lewis Roberts Performance • Sport

46 Robbing Rhodri to Pay Tony Poems Robin Fulton (32) Paul Henry (52) The Assembly and Green Energy Mike Jenkins (53) Paul Sutton (82) Tom Anderson Cover art: Black Buttons by Shani Rhys James 57 Universities as Supermarkets Alyce von Rothkirch August/September 2004

3 Thatcher’s Other Children 57 A City of Words John Barnie Interview with Zoë Skoulding Fiona Owen 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 66 Farmed and Dangerous Salmon Farming in the UK 6 Single Issues and Double Standards Daniel Bagur Welsh Labour Policy Patrick McGuinness 75 Against the Ventriloquists Eco-Poetics and the End of History 16 Alun Hoddinott at 75 Peter Abbs Interview Peter Reynolds 83 “An Expression of Delight” Gwyn Williams, 1904-1990 25 The Imaginary Autobiography of Teleri Williams James Dean Fiction 90 Stepping out of the Shadows Arthur Winfield Knight Developments in Publishing Kirsti Bohata 31 Rêl Thing The Art of Carwyn Evans and 92 Attitude Bedwyr Williams Iwan Bala 94 Reviews

38 Recorded in Lichen 118 Scene Television • Music • Art A Photo-Essay Performance • Sport Jeremy Moore Poems Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch (23) 44 Getting off David Williams’s Back Zoë Skoulding (63) Steve Griffiths (71) A Life in Welsh History Prys Morgan Cover art: Lichen by Jeremy Moore

51 The Welsh Sporting Hero Craig Owen Jones October/November 2004

3 The Greatest Show on Earth 64 Explaining Bush John Barnie The Role of Values in Modern Politics Iain Lewis 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 73 Brazil in Two Voices Pamela Petro and 7 Starbucks and Stadiums Marguerite Itamar Harrison The Future of Cardiff John Lewis Jones 84 A Visit to the Bay A Short Story 16 Walking into the Propeller Richard Rhydderch The US Presidential Election Peter Morgan 94 Time is Money Timebanking in South Wales 22 We’ve Been Here Before Alyce von Rothkirch Irish and Muslim Experience of Racism in Britain 99 † Alun Richards Ray French 101 Attitude 27 Bo Carpelan Swedish Poetry in Translation 103 Reviews Robin Young 116 Scene Television • Music • Art • 38 Persuading the Assembly Performance • Sport Lobbying in Welsh Politics David Fanning Poems Robert Minhinnick (51) Christopher Meredith (69) Lloyd 43 On the Street of Processions Robson (72) Interview with Robert Minhinnick Ian Gregson Cover: Satellite image of Europe at night

56 Art Through Children’s Eyes The Pioneering Vision of John Gibbs Peter Wakelin and Joseph Gibbs December 2004/January 2005

3 The Sands of Iraq 64 Everyone Knows Somebody Who’s John Barnie Dead The Life and Work of B.S. Johnson 6 The Planet Cartoon Meic Stephens Peter Roberts 70 An Inclusive Identity? 7 Playing Roulette with the Earth Ethnic Minorities and Welshness Global Climate Change Jonathan Bradbury John Lee Grenfell 75 The Man from Shillington 16 Clear Red Water and Blue Skies A Profile of John Updike What Kind of Society Do We Want? Jon Gower John Lovering 80 Language and Autonomy 23 Court Room Steps and Strippy Craig Owen Jones Mydroilyn The Art of the Quilt 87 More Than a Fashion Statement Osi Rhys Osmond Young People and Politics Stephen Cushion 33 Not Drowning but Waving Interview with Stevie Davies 91 The Harri Webb Prize Claire Powell Nigel Jenkins

40 Face in a Silver Ball 92 Attitude A Short Story Stevie Davies 94 Reviews

49 Islam in Wales 115 Scene Television • Film • Opera • Art • Paul Chambers Performance • Sport

59 Recycling the Fflwcs Poems Ruth Bidgood (30) Christine Evans Landfill at Lamby Way, Cardiff (54) Kathy Miles (56) Jeremy Hughes (58) Peter Finch Cover: Crack in the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctica (Reuters) February/March 2005

3 Cold Cuts from the Feast 59 Performing in the Llan John Barnie The Art of William Brown David Greenslade 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 63 Y Fro Gymraeg Declaration Cymuned Fight Back 6 Building the Road as We Travel Tim Webb Interview with Adam Price Patrick McGuinness 72 Cruise Ships, the New World Order and the Rewriting of History 14 Conserving Simple Things David Barnes The Rural Past Richard Moore-Colyer 77 The Truth About Arnim Faber War and Memory 21 Numbing Down T.J. Davies The Abuse of Language Mary Ann-Constantine 85 Which Direction for the National Parks? 26 The End of the Petroleum Age Sylvia Davies Matthew Yeomans 92 † Jonah Jones 34 Escaping the Vacuum Dylan Thomas’s Death — The 93 Attitude Medical Cover Up David N. Thomas 96 Reviews

47 A Poet of Europe 116 Scene Television • Art • Millennium Profile of Czeslaw Milosz Centre • Performance • Music • Sport Quentin Daniel Poems Dannie Abse (43) Robert 54 Two Narratives Minhinnick (45) Barry Butson (68) Dai Vaughan Cover: Oil being flared off a power plant out - side Kirkuk, Iraq April/May 2005

3 The Question of Trust 55 The Strange Death of Liberal John Barnie Adult Education Martin Wright 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 63 Tourists or Pigs An Interview with Ronan Le Coadic 6 Identity Cards — Identity Crisis Sharif Gemie The ID Debate Philip A. Thomas 69 Where the Many Worlds Fit The Art of Elizabeth Ross 11 Saharan Dust and Foot and Mouth Iwan Bala Disease A New Hypothesis 77 The Earth Under Pressure Thomas Whitfield The Crisis in Global Biodiversity Daniel Bagur 18 Notes from the Underworld A Profile of Donald Thomas 83 Love for Peach Blossom John Harrison Chinese Theatre Today Daniel Lombard 24 Satin and Glue — Degas’ Little Dancer 89 Attitude A Short Story Siân Melangell Dafydd 91 Reviews

29 The Big Three Bounce Back 117 Scene Television • Art • Music • The Resurgence of the Architecture • Performance • Sport Religious Right John Lovering Poems Nigel Jenkins (47) Anna Wigley (53) Kenneth Steven (68) 40 A Poet in Patagonia Iwan Llwyd Cover: We’ve Got Our Eye On You. (Based on a photo by Keith Morris.) plpalanet 1n71 et The Welsh Internationalist

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3 Nobody Here But Us Chickens 61 Oc — Nostra Casa John Barnie Culture and Language in the Languedoc Teleri Williams 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 67 Dawkins, Darwinism and Design Evolutionary Theory and its Opponents 6 The Truth About Sustainability Roger Caldwell Paul Frame 74 In Defence of Youth Work 10 Off Message Peter Roberts A New Column Mike Parker 80 Travelling Outward Women Travellers 12 “In a Very Deranged State” Anna Kiernan Iolo Morganwg’s Life and Work Mary-Ann Constantine 86 Watch While You Eat Chinese Theatre Today 19 Surviving at the Edge Daniel Lombard The Grey Seals of Wales Stephen Westcott 92 † Gwynfor Evans

25 The Artist We Lost 94 Attitude The Art of Colin Jones Tony Curtis 98 Reviews

40 Is the United Nations Viable? 116 Scene Television • Music • Hamish Richards Photography • Film • Performance • Sport 50 Luck A Short Story Poems Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (33) Ray French Jasmine Donahaye (37) F.J. Williams (39)

56 Where Aid is Failing Arica Cover: Mother grey seal. Ian Robinson (Photo: Stephen Westcott.) August/September 2005

3 Horizons 47 Scherezade John Barnie Robert Minhinnick

5 The Planet Cartoon 55 “Seeing Daylight All the Way” Peter Roberts Iolo Morganwg and the Theme of Sleep Mary-Ann Constantine 6 A Pause for Rejection The French Referendum 67 The Crisis in Conservative Thinking and its Aftermath Iain Lewis Ned Thomas 73 The End of the Gentry Estates 12 Off Message Richard Moore-Colyer A New Column John Lovering 83 Queen of the Hill Stations Ooty in Profile 14 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Phil Thomas (Brynteg) Man The Art of Hanlyn Davies 91 Attitude M. Wynn Thomas 93 Reviews 23 In the Direction of the Three Sisters 110 Scene Television • Music • Art • A Short Story Ceramics • Media • Architecture • Harriet Richards Opera • Sport

31 What Activism is For! Poems Tony Curtis (62) Joseph P. Clancy Jan Morris (63) Robin Fulton (64) Caroline Gourlay (66)

37 Dilyn ôl Troed/Tracing Footsteps Cover: Capel Blaenplwyf by Marian Delyth A Photo Essay Marian Delyth October/November 2005

3 One Summer in Mespot 57 Batting for Essex, England John Barnie — and the World David Cobb in Profile 5 The Planet Cartoon Nigel Jenkins Peter Roberts 75 Still Serving the Nation? 6 The Quick Perspective The Media and Politics of the Future Kevin Williams Windfarms and Landscape Martin Wright 82 Circles A Short Story 13 Zen Gardening Robert Nisbet The Art of Peter Finnemore Iwan Bala 86 Waking the Sleepwalkers Post-Growth Economy in Wales 22 Off Message Paul Frame Mike Parker 91 Better Governance for Wales 24 Ingvill Solberg John Cox Poetry in Translation Robin Young 94 Reviews

32 The Welsh Link 113 Scene Television • Music • Art • A Photo-Essay Censorship • Performance • Sport Diego Vidart Poems Ian McDonald (67) Mike Jenkins 42 Surviving Their Lies (69) Paula Harries (73) Kathryn Gray (74) Duplicity and the Invasion of Iraq Bruce Clunies Ross Cover photo: Cefn Croes Windfarm by Martin Wright 50 Negotiations Gwyneth Lewis Interviewed by Ian Gregson December 2005/January 2006

3 The Colour of Then 55 Painting Our Times John Barnie The Return of the Painter Osi Rhys Osmond 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 63 Decline of a Musical Town Delius in Newport 6 The Creation of Valleywood Nigel Jarrett The Dragon Studios Project Liz Jones 68 Farming by Committee Agriculture During WWII 12 Off Message Richard Moore-Colyer John Lovering 76 Explaining Consciousenss 14 Dealing with the Devil The Controversial Theories Where Publishing Went Wrong of Daniel Dennett Nicholas Murray Roger Caldwell

21 My Grandfather Has a Skull on 83 Touching the Earth for Witness His Desk Buddhism and the Environment Eugenics in Sweden Fiona Owen Eva F. Dahlgren 90 Reviews 29 A Tourist at Auschwitz Remembering the Holocaust 109 Scene Television • Music • Geraint Talfan Davies Architecture • Art • Film • Environment • Performance • 42 Peckish Sport A Short Story Deborah Kay Davies Poems Ruth Bidgood (36) Russell Collier (40) 48 Across the Tawe’s Great Divide The Regeneration of Swansea’s Cover image: Ernest Zobole, From Inside No. 2 Dockland Nigel Jenkins February/March 2006

3 History — Who Needs It? 58 Will There be Grapes? John Barnie Climate Change and Agriculture Gareth Edwards-Jones 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 68 A Parliament by Stealth? Assembly Politics 6 Peculiar to Our Nation Lee Waters History in Education David Barnes 73 Back to the Land Rural Wales Between the Wars 13 Buildings that Speak for Us Richard Moore-Colyer Jonathan Adams interviewed by Meic Stephens 82 Unblocking the Track The Welsh Union of Writers 22 Off Message John Osmond Mike Parker 89 “Little Wales Beyond England” 24 Fighting for Justice The Welsh of Oswestry The Cardiff 3 Craig Owen Jones Des Mannay 95 Reviews 30 Seeing Wales from a Cessna Aerial Archaeology 113 Scene Television • Music • Toby Driver Media • Arts Council • Environment • Performance • 47 It’s All in the Physics Sport A Profile of Bob Evans Margaret Redfern Poems Nigel Jenkins (39) Paul Henry (43) William Greenway (45) 55 The Breathing A Short Story Cover image: Tre’r Ceiri, Iron Age hill fort, Mary-Ann Constantine Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, from the north-east in 1996. (Crown Copyright, RCAHMW.) April/May 2006

3 Freedom Fried 62 Unfashionable Paths John Barnie The Art of Constant Permeke and Mario Sironi 5 The Planet Cartoon Osi Rhys Osmond Peter Roberts 70 How Sustainable is the White Pound? 6 Against Darkness Antarctic Tourism Philip Jones Griffiths Interviewed by John Harrison Malcolm Lewis 78 Back to a National Future? 22 Off Message Wales and Postcolonialism John Lovering Daniel G. Williams

24 Indefinite Leave to Enter 86 Attitude From a Memoir in Progress Shani Rhys-James 87 Reviews

31 New Terror, Old Fears? 112 Scene Television • Music • Terrorism and History Architecture • Media • Art • Martin Wright Environment • Performance • Sport 41 The Reticent Ethnographer A Profile of Glenn Jordan Poems Samantha Wynne Rhydderch (48) Charlotte Williams Richard Margraff Turley (51) Barry Butson (52) 54 The Way They See It at Buba’s Croatia Today Front cover: Osama bin Laden Robert Minhinnick Back cover: Prince Peter Kropotkin

59 Hamburgerology A Short Story Leonora Brito June/July 2006

3 Breaking Out of the Echo- 57 Silence Under All Chamber Jacqueline Gabbitas Interviews John Barnie Jeremy Hooker

6 The Planet Cartoon 65 From The Good Ship Esperanza Peter Roberts Radio Drama David Constantine 7 Poverty’s Still Here Ian Rappel Interviews 75 Doing the Plantation Walkaround George Monbiot Skedaddle Minstrel Shows and Popular Culture 16 Off Message Jen Wilson Ian McDonald 84 Dwˆ r Cymru/Welsh Water — 18 Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear? A Model of Sustainability? The New Surveillance Business and Sustainability Mike Nellis Paul Frame

26 Inheritors of the Vulcan Tradition 90 † Leslie Norris Cast Iron Art Robert Harding 91 Reviews

33 Birth of an Oxbow 114 Scene Television • Music • Art • A Short Story Environment • Society • Performance • Glenda Beagan Sport

39 Orwell’s London Poems Oliver Reynolds (53) Matthew Literary Geography Jarvis (55) Ian Gregson (56) Gordon Bowker Cover: Anthony Gormley, Another Place 48 The Spectacle of the Senedd Politics and Architecture Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and William Housley August/September 2006

3 What We Should Do About 51 Seeing with Different Eyes the Hay Festival Giorgia Sensi Interviews John Barnie Patrick McGuinness

5 The Planet Cartoon 67 A Case of Welsh Political Midwifery Peter Roberts The Origin of the Liberal Democrats Tom Ellis 6 Off Message John Lovering 73 The Future of the Hills and Uplands Agriculture and Society 8 The Man Who Saw Richard Moore-Colyer Everything Twice The Art of Evan Walters 80 The Art of Nature Nigel Jenkins Photography versus Art James Robertson 16 The Tears of Premier Wen Jiabao China’s Coal Industry 86 “You Just Sit Down and Do It” James Stewart The Music of Llio Rhydderch Gorwel Owen 23 The Moss Between Us A Short Story 92 Attitude Siân Melangell Dafydd 93 Reviews 27 The Intuitive Minimalist Peter Reynolds Interviews 114 Scene Television • Art • Design • Music John Metcalf • Environment • Performance • Sport

35 Might Need Some Work Poems Patrick McGuinness (60) Damian New Orleans Today Walford Davies (62) Jeremy Hughes (64) Clare Potter Ian McDonald (66)

41 The Sacking of the Gain Valley Cover: Chinese miners in the Sima coal mine The Military in Wales near Changzhi Michael Burnett October/November 2006

3 Maps 60 Just a Pile of Old Straw Behind the Barn John Barnie and Pictures of a Family Farm Short Stories 7 The Planet Cartoon Knud Sørensen Peter Roberts 66 I Remember Him Well 8 The Power of the Back Bench Writing R.S. Thomas’s Biography Patrick McGuinness Interviews Byron Rogers Paul Flynn 71 The Homeward Eye 16 Off Message The Art of Fred Jones Richard Pool Tony Curtis

18 The Grudge 80 Border Blues A Short Story Illegal Immigration in the USA Emyr Humphreys Robert Minhinnick

30 “All the Trappings of a Great 88 † Kenneth Griffith State Occasion...” The Opening of the Senedd 90 Attitude Neil Evans and Paul O’Leary 93 Reviews 38 My First Two Fathers From a Memoir in Progress 117 Scene Television • Art • Festivals • Shani Rhys-James Music • Performance • Sport

48 Tony Blair and the Politics of Poems Kelly Grovier (45) Failure Anna Wigley (46) Reputations Iain Lewis Cover: Procession of the judiciary during the ceremonial opening of the Senedd 55 Language on Marginal Soil Introducing Knud Sørensen Martin Leer December/January 2006-07

3 Back to the Sixties? 55 Art: Freedom as Duty Helle Michelsen A Lecture by Raymond Williams Introduced by Walford Davies 6 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 68 Welsh Rabbit A Potted History 7 Staging the Brand Richard Moore-Colyer Welsh National Theatre Roger Owen 76 The Beloved A Short Story 12 Off Message Stevie Davies John Lovering 87 A Sense of Place 14 Doing the Swansea Shuffle Tourism and Culture A Profile of Spencer Davis Arwel Jones Nigel Jenkins 93 † Sir Kyffin Williams 20 Sites of Truth The Ruins of Lebanon 94 † Arthur Smith Hanna Ziadeh 95 Attitude 27 Choosing a Narrative Perspectives on Israel 96 Reviews Jasmine Donahaye 113 Scene Television • Music • Art • 35 Transitions of Colour Architecture • Performance • Sport Cézanne Centenary Roy Powell Poems Anne Cluysenaar (52) Stephen Knight (53) Richard Poole (54) 42 Coleg Harlech Benjamin Buchholz (66) Innovation in Education Rufus Adams and Geoff Powell Cover: Castle Beaufort, south Lebanon. February/March 2007

3 Myth, Fact and Self-Perception 59 Review of the Review Helle Michelsen Assembly Arts Policy Hugh Adams 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 66 Bucharest: Art of a Changing City David Moore 6 Light Blues and Tory-Jacobites David Melding Interviewed by 75 Gunnar Ekelöf: A (Re)Introduction Iain Lewis Swedish Poetry in Translation Robin Young 14 Off Message Richard Poole 86 Crossing Boundaries In-Migration 16 The Lower Swansea Valley Angela Drakakis-Smith, Graham Day World Heritage Industrial Site? and Howard Davis Nigel Jenkins 94 Attitude 26 My Friend Erica Memoir 95 Reviews Shani Rhys-James 114 Scene Television • Media • Music • 34 The Law: Wise or Otherwise Performance • Film • Sport English, EU and Devolved Law Tom Ellis Poems John Tripp (13) Kevin Mills (47) Ian Caws (48) 40 The Nurse and the Airman F.J. Williams (50) Lynne Rees (72) A Short Story Ruth Bidgood (52) Robert Nisbet Front cover: Animal de Companie (The Pet), 54 Go Dance! Go Sing! Gorzo, acryclic on canvas, 270 x 230cm, 2006. Mercedes Peón Interviewed by Courtesy H’art Gallery, Bucharest. Sharif Gemie Back cover: Tangled wires, Bucharest. Photo by David Moore. April/May 2007

3 Virtually Independent 60 Bagatelle Helle Michelsen Short Story Harriet Richards 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 74 Writing Buildings Reviewing the Welsh Pevsner 6 The Gaps in the Landscape Damian Walford Davies Profile of Rabab Ghazoul Iwan Bala 81 A Space for Dreaming Volcano Theatre Interviewed by 16 Off Message Richard Knapp John Lovering 89 The Turf in Wales 18 Reading the Nation Horse-Racing On the Edge, 2006 Richard Moore-Colyer Owain Wilkins 96 Attitude 25 Hidden Heritage The Clyne Valley 97 Reviews Nigel Jenkins 112 Scene Television • Opera • Music • 33 Shopping for Eternity Animal Rights • Theatre • Art • Built Quai Branly Museum Environment • Sport Kristian Jensen and Richard Simpson Poems Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch (66) Barry Butson (68) Clyde Holmes (70) 41 You Couldn’t Leave Kenneth Steven (72) Anita Jones (73) Your Curtains Open Andy Fairweather Low Interviewed by Front cover: Detail from Mourning in Absentia , Malcolm Lewis installation, 2005, Rabab Ghazoul Back: Snow Shoes, © musée du quai Branly, 54 To the Pier Head photo Patrick Gries/Valérie Torre. Memoir Tim Philbin June/July 2007

3 The Making of a Soldier 55 Beloved Earthship Maiden ’72 Helle Michelsen Memoir Shani Rhys-James 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 63 The Exchange Haiku 6 A Socialist in a Big Tent Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones and Julie Morgan MP Interviewed by Lynne Rees Owain Wilkins 72 Reclaiming the Past 12 Offshore Scotland Welsh Medieval History The Scottish Elections Craig Owen Jones Chris Harvie MSP 80 Dream of a Tortoise 18 The Watershed Election Fiction The Assembly Results Robert Minhinnick John Osmond 86 Walking on China 24 Who Speaks for Wales? The Global Trade in Stone Creating Landmarks Osi Rhys Osmond Tamara Krikorian 93 † Tony Goble 32 Off Message Richard Poole 94 Attitude

34 Drawing Roy 96 Reviews Ivor Davies Paints Roy Powell Robert Macdonald 113 Scene Television • Theatre • Art • Festival • Music • Sport 41 How are the Mighty Fallen Welsh Attitudes to Israel and Palestine Poems Kenneth Steven (17) Jasmine Donahaye Kate Noakes (50)

52 end (justice) Cover: Montage of images by Ivor Davies of Short Story Roy Powell. See page for further details. Bogdan Tiganov August/September 2007

3 Professional Deformation 50 And So It Goes Helle Michelsen The Venice Biennale Osi Rhys Osmond 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 63 What is Beauty? Short Story 6 Fusion Politics for Coalition Times Geoffrey Williams The New Assembly Jo Murray 76 Comfortless Quilts The Art of Becky Knight 13 Host Your Own Nuclear Shelagh Hourahane Waste Facility The Future of Nuclear Energy 86 Creating His Own Tradition Paul Frame Bernardo Atxaga Ned Thomas 20 Off Message John Lovering 91 Attitude

22 The Atlantic in Black and White 94 Reviews Trans-national History Neil Evans 115 Scene Television • Music • Art • Theatre • Film • Sport 29 Shakespearophobia Language and Politics Poems Mike Jenkins (35) Richard Gareth Miles Marggraf Turley (58) Damian Walford Davies (60) Nigel Jarrett (61) Nigel Jenk - 38 The Beautiful Land ins (72) Lynne Rees (73) Ken Jones (74) Guyana Revisited Patrick Dobbs Cover: The decommissioned reactor core at Dounreay. Image taken by Paul Stevenson. 44 Sound Archive The Spoken Word Adrian Leibowitz October/November 2007

3 Reflections on a Screen 60 A Week is a Long Time Helle Michelsen British Politics Tom Ellis 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 66 No Flights of Stairs, No Flagstaff Portrait Gallery 6 Sustaining the Illusion Hugh Adams Iraq Policy Bruce Clunies Ross 76 Boro Blokes Short Story 14 Punk Rock in Bethesda Dahlian Kirby Gruff Rhys interviewed by Malcolm Lewis 86 The New Face of Culture Rhodri Glyn Thomas interviewed by 22 Gwales (...a personal perspective...) Tony Bianchi Eisteddfod 2007 Iwan Llwyd 91 Attitude

30 Off Message 93 Reviews Richard Poole 115 Scene Television • Music • Art • As - 32 Winifred Coombe Tennant sembly • Exhibition • Theatre • Sport Activist and Patron of the Arts Peter Lord Poems Shabnam Nadiya (42) Denise McSheehy (44) Paul Henry (82) 46 Harlem in Welsh Kathy Miles (85) Aspects of Translation Harri Pritchard Jones Cover: Gruff Rhys by Malcolm Lewis. Back: The Fire at the Mill (top, 1971), Outside 52 The Shadow on the Gable the Café (bottom left, 1985), Amiens Waterfront The Poetry of Tom Hedlund (bottom right, 1987) by Edrica Huws. Cour - Robin Young tesy of Edrica Huws Estate. December/January 2007-2008

3 What Price the Public Good? 63 Salmond in Charge Helle Michelsen First 100 Days of the SNP Government Chris Harvie 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 67 Billy Short Story 6 “We Don’t Speak to Evil” Kenneth Steven US-Iranian Mistrust Nicholas J. Wheeler 72 “Who Needs a National Theatre?” Adam Somerset 14 Nationalism and After Richard Phillips 80 “We All Go ‘Yeah’!” Gruff Rhys Interviewed by 19 Refreshingly Stale Malcolm Lewis National Milk Bars Hayley Long 90 † Roland Mathias † Ian Bell 30 Off Message John Lovering 92 Attitude

36 Emotions in 3D 94 Reviews The Artist Laura Ford Interviewed by Tony Curtis 117 Scene Television • Music • Opera • Art • Theatre • Sport 46 Rebuilding the Bridges: Bosnia after the War Poems Alan Kellerman (27) Huw Lila Haines Lawrence (28) Mike Jenkins (29) Paul Henry (32) Byron Beynon (35) Bruce 54 Gwrhyd Quarry French (61) Caroline Gourlay (62) Industrial Landscape Richard Porch Cover: Sleepwalkers by Laura Ford. Photo courtesy the Houldsworth Gallery. 57 The Growth of Stone Short Story Mary-Ann Constantine February/March 2008

3 The Show is Over 60 So What’s New? Helle Michelsen Welsh Writing in English Greg Hill 5 The Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts 65 Ancient Monuments — Present Words The Centenary of RCAHMW 6 State of Permanent Crisis Peter Wakelin The Current Situation in Lebanon Hanna Ziadeh 68 The Arts in a Young Democracy Arts Funding 13 After the Watershed Geraint Talfan Davies Politics in the One Wales Era Iain Lewis 73 Extending the Circle Animal Rights 18 Off Message Fiona Owen Richard Poole 80 Wise or Foolish Dreamers? 20 Green Mountain Black Mountain The Spanish Civil War Dylan Thomas as Script-Writer Phil Cope Colin Thomas 88 † Geoff Olsen 26 Empire Strides Back Transnational History 89 Attitude Neil Evans 91 Reviews 34 The Golden Age British Preconceptions about Spain 116 Scene Television • Music • Art • Rob Stradling Politics • Theatre • Sport

40 Aeroplane Dreamtime Poems Huw Jones (33) Anna Wigley Indigenous Australian Art (50) Damian Walford Davies (67) Jan Osi Rhys Osmond Trefan (79) Tony Curtis (87)

51 Rendezvous Cover: Two Spanish Civil War posters from Short Story the exhibition Wise and Foolish Dreamers cur - Emyr Humphreys rently touring Wales. Back cover: see Osi Osmond’s article (p.40). April/May 2008

3 Death of More than a Newspaper 58 Ancient Monuments Helle Michelsen — Present Words Castell y Bere 5 The Planet Cartoon Gillian Clarke Peter Roberts 60 Off the Map 6 Trident or Trust-Building? Devolution in Flintshire Nuclear Proliferation Simon Roberts Ken Booth 66 Pool Boy 16 Off Message A Palm Springs Tale of Water John Lovering P. G. Morgan

18 Perpetration and Denial 78 Darkness into Light The Armenian Genocide Early Electricity in Rural Wales Mike Joseph Richard Moore-Colyer

26 Myth and The Building Regs 90 Attitude The Architecture of Gaudí Richard Porch 92 Reviews

38 Devolution: Public Opinion 118 Scene Television • Theatre • and the Constitution Art • Assembly • Sport Richard Wyn Jones Poems Margaret Lloyd (25) Ruth Bid - 45 Summer Holiday 1990 good (34) Mike Jenkins (64) Saint James A Short Story Harris Wood (77) Barry Butson (86) Bogdan Tiganov Cover: Harp on fire, experimental perform - 51 Thriving on your Mistakes ance by Rhodri Davies. Still from a film by Dr Rhodri Davies interviewed by David Reid. Gorwel Owen June/July 2008

3 Dealing with the Butterfly Effect 62 Ancient Monuments — Present Words Helle Michelsen Christopher Meredith

5 The Planet Cartoon 64 Virtually Coelbren Peter Roberts Real Wales Peter Finch 6 The Long and Winding Road Civil Society After Devolution 68 Shared Fate Richard Wyn Jones Wales One World Film Festival Hywel Dix 12 Off Message Richard Poole 73 Two Mice Meet Agor Drysau Theatre Festival 14 Climate Change Wales Eirwen Hopkins Energy Policy Gordon James 78 A Mirage International Art Events 21 Ancestral Houses Tamara Krikorian Photographer Paul White Speaks to Damian Walford Davies 87 Life Notes Catherine Merriman 34 Chasing Sublime Light The Art of David Tress 90 † Philip Jones Griffiths David Moore 91 Attitude 41 Finding the Story Huw Warren Interviewed by 92 Reviews Malcolm Lewis 116 Scene Television • Music • Assembly • 51 9/11 and the Aftermath Festivals • Theatre • Sport Sceptical Thoughts on the Terrorist Threat Poems Richard Marggraf Turley (20) Roger Caldwell Chris Hardy (29) Richard W. Halperin (32) Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (50) 58 Leeks Out of Belsen J. Brookes (86) Short Story Huw Lawrence For details of cover please see p.21 and p.39. August/September 2008

3 Life Outside the Bubble 49 Simplicity Itself: The Causes Helle Michelsen of Suicide Structural Answers to 5 The Planet Cartoon Individual Despair Peter Roberts Ted Parry

6 No Women, No Deal? 56 From the Planet Archive Profile of Jane Hutt and Jocelyn Davies Dai Dialectic Lila Haines 58 Letting the Bat Out 11 It is Never the Native Who Returns Bilingualism Dai Smith’s Raymond Williams Carolyn Jones Ned Thomas 68 Peace at Any Cost 17 The BBC: A Plea for a New Direction The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Public Service Broadcasting Hanna Ziadeh Iain Lewis 76 A Path Through the Midi 23 Who “Paints” for Wales? Occitan Writing Looking for the next Kyffin Teleri Williams Iwan Bala 84 Tsunamis Large and Small 32 Ancient Monuments — Present Words Science and Religion Iwan Llwyd Gareth Wyn Jones

34 Oh Mun, Was That an Omen? 93 Attitude Blue Tuesday at the Railwaymen’s Club Patrick Ellis 95 Reviews

39 Creative Disturbance 115 Scene Television • Assembly • Film • The Poet Ian Gregson Interviewed by Art • Opera • Theatre • Sport Patrick McGuinness Poems Ian Gregson (46) Menna Elfyn (64) Ken Jones (74) Max Rouquette (82)

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3 How Not to Rule 64 Ancient Monuments — Present Words Helle Michelsen Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

5 A Good Time to be Clever 66 Passion Alun Ffred Jones Interviewed by Short Story Lila Haines E.A. Markham

11 Ghost Farms 74 New Poems by Bo Carpelan Crisis on the Gower Translated by Nigel Jenkins Robin Young

20 Sisley: The Persistent Impressionist 78 Tsunamis Large and Small, cont. Osi Rhys Osmond Science and Religion Gareth Wyn Jones 28 Dai Dialectic Cartoon 86 † Leo Abse

30 Aberystwyth: The Last Resort 87 † William Brown David Barnes 88 Attitude 37 The Search for Closure Palestine and Israel 90 Reviews Ilan Pappe 116 Scene Television • Music • Art • 41 “I Don’t Know if it’s a Cultural Thing...” Washington Diary • Theatre • Sport Migration into Cardiff John Jewell Poems Anne Stevenson (62) Christine McNeill (85) 47 Tele-Visions of Wales National Identity and 20th Century TV Cover: Alfred Sisley, Storr’s Rock, Rotherslade Steffan Morgan Bay, from below the Osborne Hotel , 1897 © Kunstmuseum Bern (G 1851) 54 The One and the Many From the exhibition held at the National Anne Stevenson Interviewed by Gallery in London. Nicholas Murray plpalanet 1n92 et The Welsh Internationalist

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3 The Final Frontier 54 Shadows Helle Michelsen Short Story Tyler Keevil 5 “A Change is Gonna Come” The Result of the US Election 63 Shadow Double: Refugee and Citizen Robert Minhinnick Refugee History Sharif Gemie, Laure Humbert and 10 Struggling for Survival Fiona Reid State of Our Nation Huw Lawrence 68 Not Unlike Bilbao Spanish Immigrants 16 Willing Suspension of Disbelief Mike Thomas The Global Financial Meltdown Martin Leer 75 Crumbling Foundations? The Housing Crisis 23 The Wounded Land? Tamsin Stirling The War in Afghanistan Neil McEvoy 81 Borders and Boundaries Evolution of the Landscape 30 Ancient Monuments Present Words Richard Moore-Colyer John Barnie 92 Attitude 32 Sol y Sombra Spain’s Centre for Art and Nature 96 Reviews Hugh Adams 114 Scene Television • Music • St Athan • 38 Dai Dialectic Assembly • Film • Art • Theatre • Sport Cartoon Poems Anne Cluysenaar (52) Christine 40 Living in a Runaway World MacNeill (62) Richard Marggraf-Turley Roger Caldwell Reviews Ken Booth’s (67) Cyril Dabydeen (81) Theory of World Security Cover: Ulrich Rückriem’s Siglo XX at Abiego, Fer - 46 A New Sense of Balance nando Alvira, Huesca (España). (Photo by kind per - Anne Cluysenaar Interviewed by mission of CDAN. Fundación Beulas. Photograph Fiona Owen by Fernando Alvira.) plpalanet 1n93 et The Welsh Internationalist

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3 21 st Century Religion 58 Dai Dialectic Helle Michelsen Cartoon

5 Climate Change and the 60 The Monks of Abergavenny Creation of Wealth Rewriting Welsh Theatre History Economic Crisis David Adams Molly Scott Cato 66 The Comet 12 A Way Ahead Short Story The Future of Welsh Labour Emyr Humphreys Huw Lawrence 81 The Carbon Conundrum 19 Insomnia Sustainable Buildings A Poem Haf Roberts Ehab Bessaiso 87 Pioneering Palliative Care 25 “We Need a ‘Yes’ Campaign” The NHS Kirsty Williams Interviewed By Margot Morgan Lila Haines 92 † T. Llew Jones 32 A Place of Silent Belonging Artist’s Diary 93 Attitude Christine Kinsey 94 Reviews 42 Ancient Monuments Present Words Frank Olding 118 Scene Television • Music • Design • Art • Sport 44 The Kidwelly Barrio Tango Poems Christine McNeill (32) Patrick Ellis Jonathan Edwards (56) Barry Butson (79)

49 “We Knew Len...” Front Cover: Yr Eiliad yn y Ddawns4/Moment Anglo-Welsh Writing and Spain in the Dance4 , oil on canvas by Christine Rob Stradling Kinsey. Back Cover: Yr Eiliad yn y Ddawns3/Moment in the Dance3 , oil on canvas by Christine Kinsey. (Both photos © Christine Kinsey.) planet The Welsh Internationalist

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In the Shadow of 1979 Tulipan Making Connec)ons Devolution A new poem by Øyvind Rimbereid Malcolm Lewis Interviews Richard Wyn Jones Translated by Robin Young Julie Murphy

Wylfa B Or Not To B? Damned for Dreaming Flooded with Light 78 A Ques)on of Compassion 118 Nuclear Power 8 40 Pro/ile of Soleïman Adel Guémar The Art of Elizabeth Haines Tim Richards Nigel Jenkins Jeremy Hooker † Richard Dynevor 120

A*tude 122 House of Europe The Exchange Ancient Monuments and The EU: What is it For? 16 47 State of the Arts Present Words 8 87 Reviews 123 Alan Sandry Richard Poole and Anna Wigley Anne Stevenson Scene 144

Chapter London and the Second Flowering Ge*ng There Slowly Forty Years of Cultural Activism 22 58 Anglo-Welsh Writing Language Politics 96 Osi Rhys Osmond Sally Roberts Jones Ned Thomas Poetry by Robert Nisbet (27) Dai Dialecc The Invaders White Sock Central Soleïman Adel Guémar (54) Cartoon 28 67 Short Story Merthyr 98 Kenneth Steven (103) Mark Czanik Liz Jones ForDPrlyaand et essay competition, see inside back cover. Cherry Trees, Rhubarb and Rabbits 38 75 Changing Wrecsam 104 Cover image: , acrylic and mixed Sian Edwards media on canvas. A new painting by Elizabeth Haines. Back: Images from Chapter Arts Cen - tre’s archive, including an installation by Alan Goulborne (top). 111 planet The Welsh Internationalist

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Fantasia and the Vanishing Pound Good Energy Childe Roland to Welsh The Bankers’ Role in the Global Meltdown Gai Toms Interviewed by Obscurity Came Tim Richards Gorwel Owen Pro-ile of a Concrete Poet Nigel Jenkins Photo by Phil Cope. Irony, Poli+cs, and Beauty The Exchange Looking for Bessie Smith Planet Extra 11 6 36 The Venice Biennale The Relevance of Raymond Williams In Search of the Singer’s Grave 86 Osi Rhys Osmond Daniel G. Williams, Jen Wilson Coach Tour Literature 124 Ned Thomas and Dai Smith Reviews 128 Requiem for Arabia’s Jews Footprints in the Fields The Tunnel The Last Jews of Yemen 12 45 Aerial Archaeology Short Story 99 Scene 149 Hanna Ziadeh Toby Driver Robert Minhinnick

Look it Up in Wicipedia Living with Uncertainty The Oldest Music Welsh and the Internet 22 67 The South Wales Natural Gas Pipeline Holy Wells 106 Craig Owen Jones Chris Groves Phil Cope Poetry by Phil Knight (83) Robin Fulton (105) T.H. Parry-Williams Dai Dialec+c Natures of Abstrac+on Compozione non -inita-in - 3 Poems in Translation 27 74 Cartoon Pro-ile of Maurice Cockrill 112 -inita, Richard Poole Tony Cur+s Cover image: Giampaolo Bertozzi and Stefan Dal Monte Casoni. From the Italian 32 84 119 Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. (Photo by Hilary Osmond.) planet The Welsh Internationalist

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The Exchange Wales at the Mall A Fine Romance Schools of War Folklife Festival Asturias and the Welsh Miners Sara Koopman Pamela Petro Rob Stradling and Stephen Thomas

A Maze of Muck and Murder War Declared! Tell Us About the Whore of 7B7 abylon Tamara Krikorian † 122 The Problem of Transnistria 6 42 Art and Society Short Story David Greenslade Huw David Jones Geoffrey Williams A,tude 123

Reviews 124 The Government is Not The Galicia Column Living Between Two Worlds Necessarily Yours 16 47 Living the Language Art and Poetry 84 Scene 149 Leanne Wood AM Interviewed by Xesús Fraga Stuart Evans and Elin ap Hywel Alan Sandry

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197 Winter 2010

From Hope to Broke? Dai Dialec(c Between Reality and Absurdity The Copenhagen Summit Cartoon Interview with Larissa Sansour Haf Elgar and Oreet Ashery Sharif Gemie

The Exchange Five Hundred Songs a Week Brenda Parker Patrick Hannan† 119 What Chance of a Federal Britain? 6 36 Huw Stephens Interviewed by Memoir 79 Arthur Giardelli† 120 John Osmond, David Melding Dafydd Prys Richard Poole and Laura McAllister A)tude 121

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199 Summer 2010

The Exchange Queen of Camouflage A Time of Lesser Discoveries Coalition Politics The UK and the Rule of Law Short Story Nick Bourne, Cynog Dafis Tim Richards Joe Davies and Julie Morgan Photo courtesy R. Drake/Brynaman Swimming Pool Association.

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Industrial Monuments Trefn The Last Lido in Wales Reviews 134 Dowlais Steelworks 27 58 Welsh Keywords Open Air Swimming Pools 103 Stevie Davies Howard Williams Gillian Drake Scene 147

“Nothing Much Short of Small Tech in a Small Country Made in Llangollen? the Revolu+on” 40 60 Nanotechnology Eisteddfod Chairs 113 Gender Politics Chris Groves W.T.R. Pryce Neil Evans Poetry by Vincent Parker (66) Dai Dialec+c A Brief Flowering Graham Thomas (67) Planet Cartoon 42 68 The Art of John Cyrlas Williams 119 Richard Halperin (77) Samantha Wynne Rhydderch (78) Peter Lord Ruth Bidgood (128)

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200 Autumn 2010

The Old Central Library A Cancerous Culture The Welsh Extremist Revisited A Swansea Performance The “LitBiz” A Culture in Crisis? Nigel Jenkins Robert Minhinnick Emily Trahair

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Gender and Welsh Wri)ng in English The Borders of Reason Byd Bach/Small World Rewriting literary history A re%lection on boundaries A National Library of Wales exhibition Jane Aaron Hora)o Clare Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan

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In the Penal Colony Biblical Art from Wales A Perturba)on 18 Welcoming the Stranger 68 The Good Comrade 116 The badger cull controversy Attitudes to asylum Short story Mike Joseph Jeni Williams Brian Lavery

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202 May 2011

The Grand Canyon’s There are Receivers in the Woods The Planet Interview: Great Unconformity Susan Adams Ma,hew Rhys Pamela Petro Jasmine Donahaye

47 Dream, Mametz Wood 4 Four poems Coun+ng the Cost of Divorce: 98 Planet Website 89 Sue Leigh Damian Walford Davies the case of Belgium Nicholas Hirst Reviews 133

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203 August 2011

1962: the Fate of the Language Two poems Diagnosis: a poem Saunders Lewis Chris)en Gholson Will Slocombe

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204 November 2011

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205 February 2012

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The H’mm Foundation Performing Wales Michael J. Franklin’s Nigel Jenkins Dylan Moore Orientalist Jones Daniel Melia Black Milk 32 70 117

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206 May 2012

South Africa: A State in Crisis In our new Focus section Fables of the Downturn Centenary of the ANC Short fiction Ismail Lagardien EUROPE: Alan Bilton Spain reacts to Scotland’s potential independence 52 Welsh Keywords Capitalism as a Religion of 4 HACIO’R IAITH: 100 Cymry Self-Destruction The future of web technology in Welsh Simon Brooks and Heiko Feldner Richard Glyn Roberts MUSIC: New developments and releases If not us, who? In Brief 112 Letters 138 Living through a second language TV: Poem 11 A menace to civilisation? Rowan O’Neill Kathryn Simmonds Reviews 140 CUTS WATCH CYMRU: How will the cuts affect Wales? Planet Website 159 Empty Envelopes 19 Is Radical Theatre in 118 Interned in WWII Hong Kong ART: Prison Possible Today? Francesca Rhydderch Keith Bayliss exhibition Bridget Keehan

Sport: Conflict and Art 28 Talking Pictures Carwyn Jones 120 Football and rugby writing Storytelling and photography An Unfortunate Prince? Martin Johnes Peter Stevenson and Gerald Taylor Zoe Childerley Cover image: Nant y Moch Reservoir © Zoe Childerley Three Days in January 41 ‘Mwnt’ Afterword 129 Txillardegi and Fraga Poetry 76 Emily Trahair Back cover: Keith Bayliss, from Hortus Ned Thomas Lowri Emlyn Conclusus / The Enclosed Garden (photo © Thomas Smith)

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207 August 2012

Music and Unemployment From the Needles Welsh Keywords Missing The 1930s and today Poem Bro Politics Steven Thompson Tony Curtis Ned Thomas Jenny Edkins

A Fatal Flock 4 Retracing Wales 47 Two Perspectives on 82 Babylon’s Burning 125 Unmanned aerial vehicles New coastpath Political Independence Street protest Mererid Hopwood David Rees Davies Ken Booth + Tim Evans Toni Strubell i Trueta

Swans ‘Til I Die 14 I Don’t Want Your Charity 48 Can You Tell Me the Way to Windsor? Afterword 130 100 years of social history Ted Parry Language loss 89 Emily Trahair Phil Bethell Osi Rhys Osmond

54 Letters 11534 8 Late Kick-off 19 In our new Focus section Wish You Were Here 97 Poem Postcards Reviews 139 Paul Henry MUSIC: Mike Parker New developments and releases 62 Planet Website 159

My Town, My People 27 HONNO: A Madhouse on Fire? 108 25 years of women’s publishing Short story Art and censorship Ray French ENVIRONMENT: Neil McNally Maya communities in Belize Cover image: Swansea Evening Pohsot to © David Rees Davies A Stage in Devolution 28 TV: Umbrella in the Tuol Sleng Musue1m 14 Cornish theatre Calon Cenedl – heart of a nation? Poem Back cover: Swansea City FC, 1956. Alan M. Kent Kathryn Simmonds Photo courtesy of the

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208 Winter 2012-13

Stewards of Our Landscape Welsh Keywords Outflow, Aberthaw In our Focus section Hill farmers and ecological crisis Cymuned Poem Ieuan Churchill Angharad Closs Stephens Philip Williams THEATRE: A review of 122

Children and Propaganda 4 The Book of Idiots 49 Papering Over the Cracks 87 ART: A review of Basque refugees in Wales Review article Art and social change Coriolan/us Rob Stradling Huw Lawrence Hugh Adams OPERA: A review of Never Never

A Combat Sport Like Any Other 12 One Bitch Left 57 Growing Tomatoes 89 SORBIA: A Sorb at the Eisteddfod ‘Cage fighting’ in the Valleys Poem Short story La bohème Arddun Hedydd Arwyn Crystal Jeans Susmita Bhattacharya Reviews 142

I Don’t Want Your Charity 22 Rite of Passage 61 A Slow Wonder 96 Part Two Poem Documenta art exhibition Letters 155 Ted Parry Roger Garfitt Samuel Hasler Planet Website 159

How Devolution 31 Retracing Wales 63 The Story of Wales 102 Stunted Nationalism Yr Eifl to Abersoch History through Television David Torrance Peter Stevenson Angela Graham Cover image: John Williams II, the King of Bardsey, c. 1875. Photo courtesy of Gwynedd Archives Service. Flying Down Wales 39 An Alternative to Wylfa B 68 Afterword 110 The Sovereign Forest Back cover: gimme.shelter exhibition. Poem Green jobs on Ynys Môn Editorial Photo courtesy of Oriel Davies. Philip Gross Carl Clowes Emily Trahair Detail above: by Amar Kanwar (2012) at the Documenta 47 80 156 exhibition in Kassel, Germany. Photo © Anders Sune Berg PThe Wellsha Intenrnatieonalt ist

209 Spring 2013

Editorial Tiny Territories, Hidden Tragedies Emily Trahair Enclaves in the Caucasus Simon Gwyn Roberts Three Perspectives on Global Mining Cultures: A Potential Catastrophe? 4 In the Car Park of the City of the De5a7 d Guarding a Tradition of Progress In the Focus section LNG at Milford Haven Short Story The Miners of Asturias Gordon Main Brian Lavery Cathy McGill ACTIVISM: Cardiff’s disability movement 118

Blue Books for the 21st Century 7 Flowing 68 Mining Blood Harlan 87 ART: Artes Mundi MTV’s Poem Kentucky mining culture Rachel Trezise Diarmuid Johnson Bethany W. Pope PLYGAIN: Folk Tradition The Valleys Queen of the Bluestocking Lounge 17 Retracing Wales 75 King Coal, the Rotten Waster 97 MUSIC: Burlesque in Swansea South Pembrokeshire Ron Berry and Disability NOW on Claire Houguez Jim Perrin Georgia Burdett DANCE: Taikabox: Welsh Panorama Welsh Keywords 26 Journeys 76 107 Chwyldro Poem Reviews 142 Beyond the Body Mary-Ann Constantine Rowan Middleton Letters 158 Cover image: AImstmuirgiarnan mt iMnoevrse mseetn ut p a A Nation on the March 38 Disaster Diary 84 Ibnatrerrincadtieo.n Pahl oto © Patricia Hernandez St David’s Day Parades Poem Hernandez

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210 Summer 2013

Editorial From Mokattam to Monmouthshire Welsh Keywords In our new Focus section Emily Trahair 21st-century recycling Bardd David Roman Diarmuid Johnson POLITICS : Gay marriage debate 120

From Blacklist to Oscar Shortlist 4 Love is Soaked in Memory 49 Tony Conran 1931-2013 90 MUSIC : New releases Paul Turner, MI5 and the BBC Stephen Spender and Tom Hyndman Obituary Colin Thomas Steve Gough M. Wynn Thomas ART : ATTIC and ‘Lacuna’

Painting the ‘Distressed Areas’ 7 ‘Germany, my Beloved Land’ 56 Everyone Should Dig Owen Mart1e0ll 2 OPERA : WNO’s Maurice Sochachewsky in the Valleys Gareth Jones and the Nazis Review article Peter Lord Teresa Cherfas Daniel G. Williams

Lulu Reviews 144 17 Dialectic 66 Do We Need an All-Wales 104 Three perspectives on Poem Police Force? Wales and the Environment Landeg White Huw Evans Letters 159

Closed/Ar Gau, sorry Retracing Wales: Sea-Path 78 111 Explorers Sustainability and poverty Langland to Brandy Cove Helen Pendry Stevie Davies Cover image: by Sara Rees. Image © the artist A Sustainable Future for Wales? 30 Fission 80 Hannah Hughes Poem Back cover: Shop windows, Machynl - Philip Gross leth. Photo © Helen Pendry Detail above: Closing down, Machynl - leth. Photo © Helen Pendry 40 88 The Small Holding Short Story Eluned Gramich PThe Wellsha Intenrnatieonalt ist

211 Autumn 2013 Woollying the Boundaries 44 Animal/human relationships Ffion Jones

Editorial Coprolite 57 Emily Trahair Poem Philip Gross

Children’s Wellbeing in Wales 4 Writing in Wire 65 Retracing Wales In the Focus section Welsh values under attack? Poems inspired by Welsh textiles Chepstow to Sudbrook Carl Emery Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch David Howell POLITICS: Mike Parker Coverage of Welsh Assembly debate 116

Rugby on Rollerskates 9 66 Self Portrait, in Dad’s Jacket 98 MUSIC: Rhian E. Jones 3 Perspectives on Universities and Reviews and reflections Roller Derby in the Valleys Memoir Society Rachel Trezise Jeremy Hughes ART: Ellen Bell A review of Keeper by Bella Kerr

Welsh Keywords 18 Who Defines Disability? Bias is in the Eye of the Beholder 105 Gwerin Academia, business and government policy Remembering the Ince Report Peter Lord Adam Johannes Tim Richards

Translating the World into Welsh 3 Perspectives on Sheep-farming 26 74 Reviews 11131 4 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Ned Thomas Letters 156 Cover image: The Rhondda Renegades in training © Lisa Williams

Back cover: Keeper by Bella Kerr Solidarity from the Sheepfold A Long Way Short of a People’s 83 © Mission Gallery Lessons from the Larzac University Teleri Williams Gareth Rees and Chris Taylor Detail above: A masked protest at the suspension of two Aberystwyth Univer - sity employees, Aberystwyth Arts Cen - tre, June 2013 © Emily Trahair 35 91 PThe Wellsha Intenrnatieonalt ist

212 Winter 2013/14

Editorial Irradiated Christ Japih In our Focus section Emily Trahair Poem Short Story Stewart Sanderson Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih POLITICS: 128 Helen Pendry Every Home Must be Defended 4 Decades of Devastation Ahead? 56 ‘I Aspire to a Desert-Island Art’ 91 MUSIC: Fighting the Bedroom Tax Fracking and open-cast mining in Wales Interview with Ivor Davies The Price of Silence Adam Johannes Kelvin Mason Rhodri Davies Rebecca Edwards

PERFORMANCE: Balance, Praxis and Protest Welsh Keywords 8 What’s the Future 57 Brazil in Two Voices 95 Hiraeth for the Welsh Economy? A Versailles for the 21st Century Kaite O’Reilly T. Robin Chapman Owen Donovan Pamela Petro A Lamentation Across Cultures

‘A Brick from the Ruins of Babylon1’ 9 Dancing on the Steps of the Sened6d 6 Brazil in Two Voices 107 Reviews 146 Museums in Wales Dance and Politics Sharks, Staircases and Glassy Surfaces Mary-Ann Constantine Siriol Joyner Marguerite Itamar Harrison Letters 159

Retracing Wales 28 Muscling In or Being Ourselves? 72 The Meet-Cute 115 Aberystwyth to Ynyslas Belly dance and Orientalism Poem Neal Alexander Claire Houguez Kathryn Gray Cover image: Ffos-y-Frân open-cast mine © Stephen Thomas Yesterday’s Apocalypse? 38 A ghazal travels to an English edito80r 126 Tour of Titan Missile Museum Poem Detail above: © Pamela Petro, Inhotim, Martin Padget Rizwan Akhtar Brazil.

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213 Spring 2014

Editorial UNESCO Welsh Keywords In the Reviews section Emily Trahair A Social Philosophy for the 21st Century? Hunaniaeth John W. Morgan Huw L. Williams Relationships with Pictures reviewed by Shelagh Hourahane 142 Plummeting and Soaring 6 The Poet, The Donkey and The Quanda5r2 y A Recipe for Bouillabaisse 98 Paris reviewed by Heather Williams Newport and Merthyr Tydfil Wales in Hard Times Cathy Piquemal Hugh Adams Siôn Tomos Owen The Phenomenon of Welshness II reviewed by Owain Wilkins

+ many more 10 On the Money 59 The Reformed Union 107 Three Perspectives on Global Wales in Hard Times Review Article Mining Cultures David Greenslade David Torrance

The World Turned Inside Out Retracing Wales 69 In the Focus section 118 Peter Stevenson and Penmon to Llanddona Alison Lochhead Tristan Hughes King of the (M4 relief) Road: Mike Parker on transport policy 122 An Open Wound 22 To Her, Waiting 79 2014: A Year for New Writing: Branwen Davies on theatre The Big Hole to the Marikana Massacre Poem Ismail Lagardien Katherine Stansfield Music: New Releases A for Aberfan Rachel Trezise on the Manics and more Cover image: Mine memories by Alison Lochhead © the artist The Spoils of Exploitation 32 One Wales, Two Versions 86 Mining Museums Y Gwyll / Hinterland Back cover: (detail) by Gareth Hoskins Helle Michelsen David Garner © the artist Detail above: Sketches of fish by Cathy Piquemal © the artist 40 88 PThe Wellsha Intenrnatieonalt ist

214 Summer 2014

Vital Questions for our Energy Future Entitled to Speak The House Sitter Skimmer Windfarms Politics and Literature in Scotland Short Story Poem Kelvin Mason Hywel Dix Joe Davies Christine Kinsey

Dim Gobaith Caneri 10 An Integral Part of the Public Sphe4r5 e What You Took Home with You 89 Retracing Wales 111 Poem Welsh Magazines from the Night Shift Cardigan Bridge to Ynyslas Mike Jenkins Malcolm Ballin Poem by Steve Griffiths Rowan O’Neill

Roast Beef with Wasabi Sauce 20 Imagining a Better World 53 Reliquaries of Past Lives 96 112 Wales and Japan Red Poets Profile of Artist Philippa Robbins Eluned Gramich Mike Jenkins Peter Wakelin Editorial 6

A Mark of a Humane Society 21 Remembering Nigel 63 In our Focus section 98 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Good Times with Nigel Jenkins Reviews 142 Richard Gwyn John Barnie POLITICS: Local authority cuts 122 Letters 158

Welsh Keywords 31 The Day of the Texas Revolvers 72 he THE PAPER CLUB: Angerdd Memoir n t O er Participatory arts Menna Elfyn John Elliott cov Helen Pendry

MUSIC: Cover image: Participants at The New Welsh-language releases 35 81 Rebecca Collins Paper Club © Elizabeth Felton

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215 Autumn 2014

Nuclear Power – Who Cares? Two Perspectives on Catching up with Ngũgĩ In the Focus section Hinkley Point and Wales Wales and the First World War Literature and Empire James Stewart Ned Thomas POLITICS: The Adrenaline of Umbrage 124 Mike Parker Welsh Keywords 10 Rocky Acres 88 Cyfraith Robert Graves and Harlech BOOKS: Book Addicts Beware Catrin Fflur Huws Mary-Ann Constantine Back to Bangor Helen Pendry M96emoir Tony Conran ART: Richard Wilson The Punks of the Tsunami Museu1m 8 The Sacred Cause of Freedom and 56 Peter Lord Post-disaster Indonesia Liberty Marjaana Jauhola & Yudi Bolong Gethin Matthews

Planet Appeal 2 Faces at the Gynaecologist’s 68 Education Should Be a Leveller Poem Interview with Huw Lewis AM Editorial 6 Nabanita Kanungo Carl Emery Planet Competition 143 Reviews 144

A Refusal of Britpop and Blairism Gnosis 78 144 102 26 Anniversary of Poem Short Story Rhian E. Jones Damian Walford Davies Ted Parry Cover image: Scotch Cattle The Holy Bible by Peter Stevenson © the artist The World Turned Upside Down 36 Emperor Tan and the ‘Yellow Peril8’ 0 Retracing Wales 107 Cross-dressing and protest Sinophobia and Cardiff Langland to Llangennith Back cover: Punks at the Tsunami Peter Stevenson Anthony Brockway Stephen White Museum © Marjaana Jauhola Detail above: Dyffryn Ardudwy (p.56) © Aled Gruffydd Jones 43 81 115