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Dylan Thomas’ Last Train Ride and a Long Lost Poem

Recently, when I was looking for something else, I found a yellowing typescript at the bottom of an old box file — a transcript of an interview with Wynford Vaughan Thomas made 40 years ago, for an almost instantly defunct magazine that closed even before its second issue. For those…

Dylan Thomas

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Dylan Thomas’ Last Train and a Long Lost Poem
Dylan Thomas’ Last Train and a Long Lost Poem
Dylan Thomas

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Feb 22

Work permits are not even half the story

by Nick Gammon | 7 Aug 2021 | Britain’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport issued a statement on Wednesday headlined, “Visa-free short-term touring allowed in 19 member states”, and went on to proclaim somewhat breathlessly, “… we tabled ambitious proposals during negotiations with the EU… 19 Member States…

Brexit

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Brexit

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Feb 2, 2022

James Joyce’s Ulysses — 100 years on

James Joyce’s Ulysses — 100 years on It’s the 100th anniversary of the publication of ‘Ulysses’ today, which meant I had to dig out my student dissertation on the novel. I’m aware this essay is not for everyone -it can hardly be described as light reading- but since, at a certain point in my life, I spent…

Ulysses

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James Joyce’s Ulysses — 100 years on
James Joyce’s Ulysses — 100 years on
Ulysses

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Jul 1, 2013

The Old Lady and the Sea

The Old Lady and the Sea To put it bluntly, in the late 60s early 70s as far as the public at large was concerned, surfers were simply bums. But some of those, en route to Taghazout for the surf and sometimes the hash, stumbling on the Cote Basque, found beyond the obviously perfect waves, the…

Art

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The Old Lady and the Sea
The Old Lady and the Sea
Art

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