The Green BridgeThe short story has long been a popular form with writers and readers in Wales. The Green Bridge collects work by 25 of the countrys foremost writers of the twentieth century in an entertaining and varied anthology. Horror, satire, humour, war, tales of the aristocracy, of navvies, love, and madness, industry the countryside, politics and sport: these stories provide insight into the changing values of Wales and the world. This is enjoyable reading

desire and the body

Damien Seaman – The Police in Weimar Germany

Mariam al-Ghafli – Excerpt from the novel Daughter of the Rain

The long-poem turned murder-mystery ‘Quiver’ is represented by a number of poems in the sequence

Weissbort provides a unique insight into Hughes’s views on translation and on his interest in making accessible the work of foreign-language poets and classical drama

and extraordinarily precise in its relation to whatever object he's writing about-whether he's evoking it as a poet or whether he's describing it as a critic-what you find continually is that quality of engagement which is the same quality you find in the poet

If we don’t talk

Why has Elly such power over them all

Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin

Remembering Sargon Boulus –

In the new edition of The Clydach Murders

but a conversation nevertheless that can be thrilling in its reach and commitment