Merlin Gable reviews Pamela Petro’s The Long Field, a memoir about her connection to Wales and the much discussed notion of ‘hiraeth’.

Essays, interviews and reviews related to the arts, media and cultures of Wales.
Mae the welsh agenda yn gylchgrawn Saesneg sydd yn cael ei hariannu gan Gyngor Llyfrau Cymru. Mae erthyglau’r cylchgrawn yn Saesneg ond mae’r tudalennau am waith y Sefydliad Materion Cymraeg ar gael yn ddwyieithog.
Merlin Gable reviews Pamela Petro’s The Long Field, a memoir about her connection to Wales and the much discussed notion of ‘hiraeth’.
Marine Furet reviews A Hero of the People, a new adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen from the Sherman Theatre.
Marine Furet reviews the_crash.test, a new production about technology and identity due to perform as part of Hijinx’s Unity Festival.
Zoe Brigley reviews a new anthology of poetry and prose that reckons with the effects of climate change around the world.
Dylan Moore enjoys A470: Poems for the Road, a bilingual poem collection taking inspiration from the road crossing Wales from North to South.
Marine Furet reviews Petula, a new production combining surreal aesthetics with remarkable absurdist scenes.
Yasmin Begum hails a raw voice of working class resistance to police corruption.
A new exhibition focused on West Africa highlights the impact of Covid on our sense of community, two years into the pandemic.
Hywel Griffiths explores how Wales’ creativity can help us face the climate crisis