THESE PAGES SING WELSH LITERARY MAGAZINE Sue Moules. Gareth Writer-Davies. Carolyn Thomas. George Sandifer-Smith. Sheila Jacob. Catrin Mari. Sue Regan. Angela Graham. Elizabeth Lockwood. Angela Arnold. Charly White. M.R.Smith. Barbara HughesMoore. Guinevere Clark. Catrin Lawrence. Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts. Rosy Adams. Jonah Jones.
AUTUMN 2024 | ISSUE 01
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Table of Contents. POETRY Sue Moules LOOKING DOWN AT THE SCUFFS ON THE TOES OF HER SHOES Gareth Writer-Davies IN THE RADNORSHIRE HILLS after an observation by Nicholas Whitehead Carolyn Thomas To Jen at the Autumn Equinox (After Robert Graves: To Juan at the Winter Solstice) We ran like townies
Catrin Mari Cymraeg. Caerdydd Gwen (Rapunzel)
George Sandifer-Smith Festivities/Ffestiniog Trefor Hill The Ice Tombs
Angela Graham CARDIFF DOCKS, 1931
Sheila Jacob Blodeuwedd Takes Flight The Open Road
Sue Regan Holm from Home
Elizabeth Lockwood Rebuilding Anemoia Angela Arnold these are the people all the colours of sea a skim of present Charly White The Busker M.R.Smith Yellow Belly Barbara Hughes-Moore you were a haunting nightmare Guinevere Clark Dear Blood Our Beach
SHORT FICTION
Perry Wyatt Editor
Catrin Lawrence TAGGED
Kornelia Urbaniak Cover Designer
Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts Unfortunate Sisters Rosy Adams Otherworld Jonah Jones Missus Lummas and the Devil’s Coach Horses
LOOKING DOWN AT THE SCUFFS ON THE TOES OF HER SHOES SUE MOULES She looks down to avoid the camera click, the flash cube hiss as light bounces off her round spectacles and her eyes close from the light. The blue ribbon in her hair is slipping down the side of her face, it is to do with the electricity that lifts her hair like a curtain when her mother brushes it with the Mason-Pearson hair brush. She looks at the scuffs on the shoes she wanted to keep pristine that now will need polish and elbow grease, newspaper on the table and the parade of brushes to regiment them back into perfect Start-rite shoes.
Sue Moules has been published in New Welsh Review, Planet, Poetry Wales, and Ambit. Her Poems were included in the International Women’s Day anthology (Welsh Women’s Coalition, 2010). In 2024, her poem ‘Walking the Whippet’ was chosen for Brighton and Hove Poems on the Buses. Her poems have appeared in By Ways Anthology (Arachne) 2024 and Words on Troubled Waters (Lutra Press) 2024. Her most recent collection is The Moth Box (Parthian).
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