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Tired of London, tired of life: the queer pastoral in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Spell
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-06-24)It is telling that Alan Hollinghurst begins The Spell, his 1998 novel that splits its time between Dorset and London, with an episode that pays homage to the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright’s designs were ... -
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017-01-01)This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s ... -
“I Am…”: Caitlyn Jenner, Jazz Jennings and the cultural politics of transgender celebrity
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-16)In the twenty-first century, the visibility of transgender celebrities appears greater than ever. Whilst scholarly work has analysed, and continues to analyse, representations of trans celebrities, this research has largely ... -
Houtsiplou
(The Lonely Press, 2017-02-01)Jo is going fifty in a forty but it's okay. She is in the Vale and her previous speeding tickets were in the city. They are different authorities. The rain drives down. It is windy and the moisture on the tarmac is blown ... -
The Fake in the Back
(New Welsh Review, 2017-01-01)Comic story by Dan Anthony. Reading & recording by Caroline Stockford. Images and animation by Megan Elsey. Audio edit by Ieuan Rhys. -
The Bus Stop at the End of the World
(Gomer, 2017-01-20)At the bus stop, halfway between his new home and school, Ritchie's stumbled upon the spot where myth and real trouble get mixed up. Singing cowboys, green creatures from the hedge and the fastest girl on two wheels ... -
Exploring care for children with autism in Wales using creative writing as a research method in a collaborative pilot study
(NAWE, 2017-03-01)This article comes out of a recent project conducted by the Autism Collaborative Research Group (ACRe), using writing workshops to capture the experiences of clinicians, educators and parents of children with Autistic ... -
Pope Penis IX
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Modern
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The Codex Epiphanix
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Life beyond ‘Critique’: Murakami after Latour
(Brill Rodopi, 2016) -
The past as an imaginary world: the case of medievalism
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A secret vice: Tolkien on invented languages
(HarperCollins, 2016)First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic invention ... -
Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History
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Mask
(The Lonely Press, 2015) -
The New Tent
(Wales Arts Review, 2015) -
Fifteen Arthur Crescent
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The Largest Bull in Europe
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)‘The Largest Bull in Europe’ explores the character of the tourist as both the observer and the observed. The first person narrative positions the visitor as a prurient viewer concerned with the sensual details of the ... -
The big Welsh idea : the creative mine
(BBC Radio Wales, 2015)A thirty minute documentary, within an innovation-themed day of programmes (also developed by D Anthony and Parasol Media for BBC Wales). The programme explored the 25th anniversary of the movement of the Patent Office ... -
‘“Am I a Jew?”: Woolf’s 1930s Political and Economic Peregrinations
(Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
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