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A founder of "Dock Leaves" (renamed "The Anglo-Welsh Review"), Mathias combined his career as an editor with work as an educationalist, poet and critic. This book examines his life and writing career, exploring the origins and depth of his commitment to a Welsh literature in the English language.

A study of the strange life and pathetic death of T.J. Llewelyn Prichard, the author of "Twm Sion Catti", the first Welsh novel in English which was popular enough to have been pirated in the mid-19th century.

Published to coincide with a traveling exhibition that explores June Leaf s (1929 2024) uncategorizable and endlessly experimental oeuvre, this volume features new scholarship alongside reflections by the artist s peers, Joan Jonas and Kara Walker. Drawing from numerous museum and private collections as well as Leaf s vast personal archive, it is the most exhaustive survey of her career to date. Leaf s enchanting and provocative kinetic sculptures, assemblages, paintings, and drawings are intermingled and juxtaposed, revealing the artist s sustained engagement with such motifs and themes as theater and performance, dance, gender, motion, urban life, mythology, and interpersonal relationships. She skillfully blends mediums and materials in unconventional and intuitive ways, resulting in compositions where playful and combative figures and contraptions emerge from inventive combinations of brass, copper, tin, found metal rods and blades, wood, and paint.

When it comes to the great sports and entertainment figures of our time, more often than not, we readily remember the home runs, the touchdown passes, the baskets made and other public accomplishments. This is the material that generates talk of greatness about individual athletes. Their statistics roll off our tongues. We know their numbers, but we don't always remember their spoken words. Sure, there have been many athletes who have exhibited the gift of gab - from Yogi Berra's silly quips to Charles Barkley's sometimes-playful, sometimes-controversial rants. But there were other words also spoken; be it after a game, before a practice, in the quiet of the locker room on an off-day or in a setting far away from the playing field. These words may not have appeared in a newspaper or been heard during a television or radio broadcast.These are great lines spoken by some of the greatest performers of our time. And I've taken the liberty to tailor some of them to suit the lessons in life that so many of us still are learning today. Some are the words spoken directly from the most accomplished performers who ever lived. These are quotes from great individuals that have the potential to move you as they moved me.It was a privilege to watch great athletes perform at the highest level of competition. Witnessing the ascension to greatness - from high school standout to college All-American to the professional ranks... from rookies to all-stars, all-stars to champions and champions to Hall of Famers...

The Perseids brought it all out of the past, with a force like a blow that leaves you winded. The night lurched and seemed to swoop suddenly down. The boy still lay on his back, but when I sat up, gasping, I glimpsed the pale disc of his face as he turned to see what had startled me. 'It's all right,' I said, though it wasn't. It is the summer of 1954. Four young men, on a summer vacation buy an old car from a farmer and drive it from the hills of Wales all the way to the mountains of Spain. It is only a few years since the war, Europe is still in ruins. They are innocent and war-scarred, dreamers and realists, men but not much more than boys. They have their whole lives ahead of them. This will be their summer to remember. A beautiful, elegiac rumination on youth, friendship and the dreams that we hold. "A haunting meditation on memory and loss that takes the reader on a summer road trip to a vanished Spain. In this well-crafted, wistful novella, Sam Adams weaves his tapestry from fragments of a remembered friendship in a coming of age tale written with sixty years' bitter hindsight." - Richard Gwyn Sam Adams has created a rare novel in The Road to Zarauz, both timeless and very much of a time and a place, a past of hope and expectation erased in a moment, and what remains when hope is gone.

Since 1996, Sam Adams’s ‘Letter from Wales’ column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period. Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the ‘letters’ are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.