Wrap-around cover for Docklands: A Ghost Story (out from Seren in early 2019) just delivered by Clive Hicks-Jenkins! Collection is set in Cardiff, 1890-2 and is told by a single speaker - a louche architect. For the cover, Clive has chosen the architect's wife, in her mourning...

Looking forward to world premiere 28 Feb 2019 of The Mare's Tale (actor: Eric Roberts) by the Berkeley Ensemble - a wartime ghost story... Libretto: Damian Walford Davies; Music: Mark Bowden; inspired by the art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins. rwcmd.ac.uk/whats_on/event…

Positive way forward: Bin the failed and utterly discredited Hughes Review. Start discussing what Lit Wales has always called for -- /1

a connected sector where areas of excellence/ expertise exist in a dynamic ecology that services diverse needs and demographics.

Formal LW statement on Hughes Report (full evidence and analysis submitted to WG). Another statement imminently. literaturewales.org/lw-news/litera…

Gillian Clarke's statement to Ken Skates contra Hughes Report - on LW website. Brilliant refutation. More evidence needed? All sent to KS.

Gillian Clarke's smart (+moving) evisceration of the Hughes Report's shoddy (+'insulting') portrait of Ty Newydd: surely t'last coffin nail.

First Welsh-language-perspective analysis of the Hughes Report, by Eurig Salisbury - required reading by W. Govt at this crucial time. /1

Demonstrates utterly indispensable role, ethos, expertise and successes of Lit Wales, and irremediable damage if report implemented. /2

As Chair, am calling for vocal, evidenced support for Lit Wales from writers, readers and cultural participants /3

in the face of the 'infamous' (E. Salisbury) Hughes Report. Lit Wales has made its case, with evidence. WGovt will deliberate in autumn. /4

Submit your own evidence, at a time when the continuation of Lit Wales's crucial contribution is at stake. The gap cannot be filled. Diolch.

Eurig Salisbury's indispensable analysis and argument: eurig.cymru/blog/llenorion…

Conceiving of 'the literary' as so much more than published books (ring a tinny bell recently in Wales?) -- bbc.co.uk/news/av/disabi…

Looking forward to reading tomorrow night (7-9pm) with Caleb Parkin and William Wootten at the Lansdown Pub in Clifton, Bristol . . . /1

. . . as part of the wonderful Life of Breath project: lifeofbreath.org . . . 2/2

U2 should turn from touring Joshua Tree and take ZooTV back on road as comment on Brexit, complete with moment star falls from EU flag...

Great event today with Lit Wales patron Philip Pullman talking peacocks, pubs, politics, phonebooks, Higgs Boson, Wales + Oxford waterways.

Marwolaeth Bobi Jones yn golled enbyd. Gwr hynaws ac un o'r mawrion. Death of poet and professor Bobi Jones (1929-2017) a major loss. Time to re-read Rhwng Taf a Thaf. llenyddiaethcymru.org/lw-news/bobi-j… literaturewales.org/lw-news/bobi-j…

Come and enjoy the Seren Poetry Festival, 16-18 February 2018 in Cardiff's Cornerstone -- something for everyone. Check out rcadc.org/seren-poetry-2… for all events!