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planet The Welsh Internationalist
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Spring 2009
In the Shadow of 1979
Tulipan
A new poem by Øyvind Rimbereid
Devolution
Richard Wyn Jones
8
40
Damned for Dreaming
Wylfa B Or Not To B?
Pro/ile of Soleïman Adel Guémar
Nuclear Power
Tim Richards
16
47
State of the Arts
The EU: What is it For? 22
58
Richard Poole and Anne Stevenson
London and the Second Flowering
Chapter
Anglo-Welsh Writing
Forty Years of Cultural Activism
Osi Rhys Osmond
Nigel Jenkins
The Exchange
House of Europe
Alan Sandry
Translated by Robin Young
28
67
Dai Dialec c
Cartoon
Sally Roberts Jones
75
Malcolm Lewis Interviews
Julie Murphy
78
Flooded with Light
A Ques)on of Compassion 118
The Art of Elizabeth Haines
Jeremy Hooker
Ancient Monuments and Present Words 8 Anna Wigley
87
96
Language Politics
Ned Thomas
White Sock Central
Mark Czanik
Liz Jones
98
A*tude 122 Scene 144 Poetry by Robert Nisbet (27) Soleïman Adel Guémar (54) Kenneth Steven (103) For Planet essay competition, see inside back cover.
Merthyr
104
Cherry Trees, Rhubarb and Rabbits Changing Wrecsam
Sian Edwards
† Richard Dynevor 120 Reviews 123
Ge*ng There Slowly
The Invaders Short Story
38
Making Connec)ons
111
Cover image: Dryad, acrylic and mixed media on canvas. A new painting by Elizabeth Haines. Back: Images from Chapter Arts Centre’s archive, including an installation by Alan Goulborne (top).
planet The Welsh Internationalist
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Summer 2009
Fantasia and the Vanishing Pound
Good Energy
Gai Toms Interviewed by
The Bankers’ Role in the Global Meltdown
Tim Richards
6
36
The Exchange
Irony, Poli+cs, and Beauty
The Relevance of Raymond Williams
The Venice Biennale
Osi Rhys Osmond
12
45
Aerial Archaeology
The Last Jews of Yemen
22
67
Look it Up in Wicipedia
The South Wales Natural Gas Pipeline 27
74
T.H. Parry-Williams
Chris Groves Dai Dialec+c Cartoon
3 Poems in Translation
Richard Poole
Toby Driver
Living with Uncertainty
Welsh and the Internet
Craig Owen Jones
Daniel G. Williams, Ned Thomas and Dai Smith Footprints in the Fields
Requiem for Arabia’s Jews Hanna Ziadeh
Gorwel Owen
32
84
Childe Roland to Welsh Obscurity Came Pro-ile of a Concrete Poet
Nigel Jenkins
86
Photo by Phil Cope.
Looking for Bessie Smith
Planet Extra 11
In Search of the Singer’s Grave
Jen Wilson
99
The Tunnel 106
The Oldest Music
Poetry by Phil Knight (83) Robin Fulton (105)
Holy Wells
Phil Cope
112
Natures of Abstrac+on Pro-ile of Maurice Cockrill
Tony Cur+s
Reviews 128 Scene 149
Short Story
Robert Minhinnick
Coach Tour Literature 124
119
Cover image: Compozione non -inita-in-inita, Giampaolo Bertozzi and Stefan Dal Monte Casoni. From the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. (Photo by Hilary Osmond.)
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Autumn 2009 Wales at the Mall
The Exchange
Folklife Festival
Schools of War
Sara Koopman and Stephen Thomas
6
42
A Maze of Muck and Murder
War Declared!
Art and Society
The Problem of Transnistria
David Greenslade
16
47
Alan Sandry
Living the Language
22
60
Food from Welsh Resources
32
Cartoon
62
Industrial Monuments, Present Words Gee Williams 40
Xesús Fraga
Dai Dialec+c
Thoughts on the Future of Our Food Supply
Richard Moore-Colyer
Huw David Jones The Galicia Column
The Government is Not Necessarily Yours
Leanne Wood AM Interviewed by
Pamela Petro
Three Boys and a Pigeon
Photography Update
64
Paul Cabuts
A Fine Romance
Asturias and the Welsh Miners
Rob Stradling
77
Tell Us About the Whore of Babylon Short Story
Geoffrey Williams
84
Living Between Two Worlds
Reviews 124
95
Being Not Doing
The Rise of the “Feminine”
Ted Parry
A,tude 123 Scene 149
Art and Poetry
Stuart Evans and Elin ap Hywel
Tamara Krikorian † 122
105
Poetry by Philip Gross (57) Barry Butson (93) Kelly Grovier (94)
As Good as Any Man
Woman’s Role in the War Years
Colin Thomas
114
Cover image: At the Circus by Claudia Williams. (Photo courtesy of Martin Tinney Gallery.) Back cover: Midsummer Nights Dream (The Changeling) by Stuart Evans. (Photo by Mark Davey.)
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W inter 2010 Dai Dialec(c
From Hope to Broke?
Cartoon
The Copenhagen Summit
Haf Elgar
6
36
The Exchange
John Osmond, David Melding and Laura McAllister
10
38
A Future for Newspapers The Press’s Fight for Survival
Iain Lewis
22
50
City of Culture?
Xesús Fraga
A Personal History of the Miners’ Strike Tim Richards
Dafydd Prys
Richard Poole
Industrial Monuments — Present Words Mike Jenkins
A Novelist’s Take on the Suez Crisis 28
54
Stevie Davies
The Pain of Remembering Signposting the Nakba
30
65
Sharif Gemie
Brenda Parker
Wri(ng Into Suez
Galician Column
Interview with Larissa Sansour and Oreet Ashery
Five Hundred Songs a Week Huw Stephens Interviewed by
What Chance of a Federal Britain?
Between Reality and Absurdity
Jasmine Donahaye
79
Patrick Hannan† 119 Arthur Giardelli† 120
Memoir
87
Nicely Balanced Rela(ons
Reviews 123
The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Anne Cluysenaar
93
Papa Don’t Smoke Short Story
Gillian Brightmore
A)tude 121
101
Words in Colour
Scene 146 Poetry by J. Brookes(52) Kenneth Steven(53) F.J. Williams(77) Paul Groves(78) Herbert Williams(118)
Painting with Poets
Tim Rossiter
105
Open Windows Day and Night TB
Herbert Williams
111
Cover image: Still from A Space Exodus, a video by Larissa Sansour. (Image courtesy and © Larissa Sansour.)
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Spring 2010
Tortured thinking
The Exchange Green Economy
The Baha Mousa Inquiry
Tim Richards
8
45
Mul*ple Voices
Fluxus Man
Pro&ile of Colin Thomas
John Cale at the Venice Biennale
Iwan Bala
14
55
Cartoon
Stand-off in Machynlleth
Industrial Monuments — Present Words Pamela Petro
24
64
“Wri*ng is My Real Country”
Stories from the Banlieues
34
66
Beneath the Shopping Malls
Teleri Williams
Recovering the Lost Graves
Galician Column
Psychogeography
Sally Roberts Jones
Robert Walton
Dai Dialec*c
Shopping for a Solu*on Meic Llewellyn
Jonathan Essex, Richard Scrase and Molly Sco+ Cato
36
74
Xesús Fraga
Patrio*c Ghosts
WWII Propaganda
Liz Jones
78
Winter Cherries
A,tude 117
Memoir
Johannes Gramich
87
Two Cataclysms
93
A Small Measure of Jus*ce German Slave Labour
Robin Llewellyn
† Dave Berry 120 Reviews 121
Towards a Common History of Europe
Ned Thomas
† Hywel Teifi Edwards 119
102
Kicking the Soundboard
Scene 143 Poetry by Anne Cluysenaar (53) Mike Jenkins (54) Barry Butson (76) Ted Parry (100)
Interview with Guto Puw
Peter Reynolds
109
Cover image: Poster on door in Venice. (Photo © Richard Higlett.)
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Summer 2010
The Exchange
Queen of Camouflage
The UK and the Rule of Law
Coalition Politics
Nick Bourne, Cynog Dafis and Julie Morgan
6
52
Slan+ng Skies and Til+ng Perspec+ves
The People Who Love to Talk About Ea+ng While Ea+ng
The Art of the Valleys
Osi Rhys Osmond
27
58
40
60
“Nothing Much Short of the Revolu+on” Neil Evans
Xesús Fraga
Welsh Keywords
Dowlais Steelworks
Gender Politics
Galicia Column
Trefn
Industrial Monuments Stevie Davies
Tim Richards
Howard Williams
Small Tech in a Small Country
Nanotechnology
42
68
Dai Dialec+c
Chris Groves
A Brief Flowering
The Art of John Cyrlas Williams
Planet Cartoon 50
79
Peter Lord
A Time of Lesser Discoveries
Short Story
Joe Davies
93 Photo courtesy R. Drake/Brynaman Swimming Pool Association.
Astronauts, Taikonauts and Gaganauts Asian Space Race
Craig Owen Jones
† Tom Ellis 130 † Iwan Llwyd 131
103
The Last Lido in Wales
Reviews 134
Open Air Swimming Pools
Gillian Drake
113
Made in Llangollen? Eisteddfod Chairs
W.T.R. Pryce
A,tude 132
119
Scene 147 Poetry by Vincent Parker (66) Graham Thomas (67) Richard Halperin (77) Samantha Wynne Rhydderch (78) Ruth Bidgood (128) Front cover: Chair for the Blaenau Gwent and Heads of the Valleys National Eisteddfod 2010. (Photo © Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru.) Back: Cuban ballet on a Havana rooftop. (Photo © Manuel Harlan.)
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Autumn 2010
The Old Central Library
A Cancerous Culture
The “LitBiz”
A Swansea Performance
Nigel Jenkins
6
Heroes and the Iron Pen of History
We Have the Plans...
Henry Morton Stanley
Mostyn and Plas-Glyn-y-Weddw
Iwan Bala
50
13
56
Short Story
Trefforest Tinworks
24
64
What’s Welsh For Woman?
An Occitan Voyage Through Wales 26
78
The Exchange
Teleri Williams
The Fate of Small Magazines
Galician Column
Understanding Wales
Neil Evans, Graham Day and Charlo*e Aull Davies
Huw Lawrence As Others See Us
Welsh Keywords
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
Colin Thomas
The Perfect Boy
Industrial Monuments Meic Stephens
Robert Minhinnick
36
86
Xesús Fraga
The Welsh Extremist Revisited
A Culture in Crisis?
Emily Trahair
88
Dai Dialec)c
Website 33
The Planet Cartoon 100
Green Man 2010 102
Banking the Book and Romancing the Rose Catalonia’s Sant Jordi
Patrick Carlin
110
Mizoram: The Land that Wales Forgot Missionaries in India
John Fraser Williams
Reviews 132 Scene 148
A Photo Essay
Dafydd Prys
A+tude 130
Poetry by Peter Finch (35) Tony Curtis (76) Philip Williams (77) Damian Walford Davies (117) Cover image: A selection of Planet covers through the decades.
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Febr uar y 2011
Gender and Welsh Wri)ng in English
The Borders of Reason
Jane Aaron
Hora)o Clare
Rewriting literary history
4
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50
Gerry Feehily
18
Peter Reynolds
28
Jeni Williams
The Border
Roof
Hannah Rhein
68
Gee Williams
42
104
Ceri Thomas
Reviews 134 Le*ers 156
116
Contributors 159
The Good Comrade
Short story 74
Brian Lavery Editor’s A erword Jasmine Donahaye
Short story
Photo essay
Grahame Davies
A review of Biblical Art from Wales
Attitudes to asylum
The badger cull controversy
Planet Website 61
Imaging the Bible
Welcoming the Stranger
A Perturba)on
96
Survey of a long relationship 62
A treatment of In the Penal Colony
Changing views on the environment
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan Wales and Islam
Philip Glass in Context
Coun)ng Our Losses
Mike Joseph
A National Library of Wales exhibition
Events of 2010
Poem and painting
Jem Poster
A re%lection on boundaries
France and the Roma Ques)on
Un)tled
Margaret Lloyd
Byd Bach/Small World
89
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Cover image: Imperial Beach, California, looking toward Tijuana, Mexico Photo: Š Hannah Rhein
planet 202 The Grand Canyon’s Great Unconformity Pamela Petro
May 2011 There are Receivers in the Woods Susan Adams
Dream, Mametz Wood Sue Leigh
Four poems 15
Naming the Cast Paul Henry
Who Murdered Agnes Lal? a work in progress Lewis Davies
Southern A,rac+on: Y Wladfa’s abiding appeal Jon Gower
Damian Walford Davies
54
Art for Wales 16
17
David Moore
58
A Decade in the Barn Centre: a photo essay Keith Morris
Colin Thomas
70
Nicholas Hirst
Planet Website 89 110
Rhys Jones
Nigel Jarre,
Reviews 133 Le,ers 152
118
Raymond Garlick 155 Contributors 159
123
Editor’s A erword 78
The Library of Wales Claire Flay
Coun+ng the Cost of Divorce: the case of Belgium
98
Keep Me in Temper, Sweet Heaven The Intriguing Case of Mark W.
26
36
Jasmine Donahaye
Mapping Referenda
Stepping out of the Frame
Birds of Prey I Have Known and Loved Niall Griffiths
47
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The Planet Interview: Ma,hew Rhys
91
Jasmine Donahaye
157 Cover image: Matthew Rhys photo by Dafydd Prys Back cover: courtesy of Litløy fyr Inside detail: Mari Lwyd Chat by William Brown