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The Welsh Internationalist December 2000/January 2001
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The Writer’s Dubious Friends John Barnie Planet Cartoon Peter Roberts
The Uncertain Critic “Praise” Criticism in Welsh Literary Culture Jasmine Donahaye The Site Inviolate R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) Walford Davies
The View from London The British Art Show 5 Ozi Rhys Osmond
The Real Street Lloyd Robson’s sense of city road Peter Finch
Sale of the New Century “Reforming” Lithuania and Russia Ian Rappel
The Power of Absence Gillian Clarke in Conversation with Deryn Rees-Jones Devolution on Hold Paul Frame
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Acting the Maggot From a Novel in Progress Kaite O’Reilly Books 2000
“A Very Good Afternoon for Wales” The Lib-Lab Coalition Geoff Mungham
“English for the Children?” The Language Debate in California Carol Schwyzer and Philip Schwyzer
A World of Difference Samuel Huntington’s Theory of the Clash of Civilizations David Sullivan
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Poems Tony Conran (29) Gillian Clarke (53) Deryn Rees-Jones (61) Cover art: Chintz Girls by Laura Ford