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Articles by Dai George
“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets
Dai George Remembers the Inventive Wordplay and Freewheeling Life of a Welsh Literary Giant This one’s personal. Dylan Thomas bestrides modern Welsh poetry like a chubby-cheeked, shabby-blazered colossus. Any Welsh poet who tries to be modern therefore has to pass through him first, whether they want to or not—myself included. It’s hard even to get off first name terms with him, so I’m afraid that’s what we’re going to be stuck with here.
The Diary Of A Yorkshire Vet By Julian Norton
Bantams, Bum Bandages And Book Signings: The Diary Of A Yorkshire Vet By Julian Norton Steve Whitaker, Literary Correspondent Television veterinary surgeon and much published writer on the theme of delving into the back passages of cows at three in the morning, Julian Norton does not shy away from the visceral aspects of his work.
The Diary Of A Yorkshire Vet By Julian Norton
Bantams, Bum Bandages And Book Signings: The Diary Of A Yorkshire Vet By Julian Norton Steve Whitaker, Literary Correspondent Television veterinary surgeon and much published writer on the theme of delving into the back passages of cows at three in the morning, Julian Norton does not shy away from the visceral aspects of his work.
An Unreachable Light:
‘Our aunts show us a glass case of curled-up figures.
An Unreachable Light:
‘Our aunts show us a glass case of curled-up figures.
An Unreachable Light:
‘Our aunts show us a glass case of curled-up figures.
The subtitle of Lata Mani’s unusually affecting new film gives a precise encapsulation of the intended mood. The inherent brittleness of the human condition, the fragility of those who, often for reasons beyond personal control, find themselves cut adrift in an ocean of disillusion or alienation, is the film’s contemplative focus.Conceived mostly against the backdrop of the turning of the Pacific’s tides, the film unfolds narcotically, as though to encourage a sense of acquiescent abandonment.
‘Tyndale’ By Dai George
Tyndale On panel shows I see them, in the heat of online arguments, indignant in the snugs of heritage pubs, in headshots opposite the agony aunt beside the going-up-and-going-down sidebar in Sunday papers: these atheists, uncombed and open-necked. They rant about bobbins and fairy tales and the goals of science and fallacies they enumerate and link to from online encyclopaedias. They are quite funny. They are being retweeted.
Referendum on Living
I do well to remember there’s a choice. The world bungles, swarms. For too long I’ve seen nothing but breeze rutting in boughs, felt little but this air, thick with grit and aphids, enter at each orifice. So much I dislike. Quickly it proves difficult to resist, an addiction like any other. This week I’ve loitered amid bunting, investigated ice in summer drinks, taken it as proof for fools. The party spills onto the pavement, repeatedly.
‘Return to Cardiff’: Dannie Abse Tribute
In tribute to Dannie Abse, Dai George takes a look back at one of the writer’s most well-loved poems, Return to Cardiff, and finds within it a sense of recognition. I’m yet to have my full reckoning with Dannie Abse. His famous poems have always loomed in my peripheral vision, like an older brother who’d left home by the time I was born.
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