Wales | Wales
Jul.14.2011
July 14
Wales
It is safe for the houses to sleep in the streets, but not for me. I cannot follow that which is so right and regular for mundane things. I am a jagged piece and it is hard for me to find my place.
The sun comes though everyone’s windows...
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May.27.2011
Hay Festival is a gathering in the staggering beauty of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Hay Festival was founded around a kitchen table in 1987, set in the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye in the staggering beauty of the Brecon Beacons.
The festival continues to attract the most exciting writers...
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Feb.08.2011
I've been writing about the places to which I find myself returning. Here's an adapted extract; perhaps one day I'll see you there.
On the low sloping cliff to the north of Porthgain is a white tower. It is made from field stone, about the size of a small lime kiln, mortared with mud and...
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Dec.27.2010
By 11 am on Christmas morning we were on Newgale Beach. The sky was cloudless, the sea transparent turquoise, frost on the pebbles. We walked to clear our heads from the night before.
Our neighbours had invited us round. Lovely people, honest friends; they drink too much, and so did we. It...
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Dec.23.2010
Starling roost - Pembrokeshire
Today, I returned to my house in Wales. When I arrived I noticed there were crusty droppings on the floor, not unlike the body fluid that moths squirt if disturbed. Strange to find these in December - and so many of them; on the window sills, the cupboard doors, the...
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Nov.18.2010
Philip Glass © Saturday Matinee http://www.saturdaymatineeblog.com
Philip Glass writes new opera for Wales
by Karen Price
LEGENDARY American composer Philip Glass is writing a new chamber opera for Music Theatre Wales.
The world famous musician approached the Cardiff-based...
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Nov.12.2010
A Glass act brings Kafka’s story to life
by Karen Price
MUSIC Theatre Wales is bringing its acclaimed production of Philip Glass’ gripping chamber opera, In the Penal Colony, to Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold this weekend.
Based on the powerful short story by Franz Kafka, In the...
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Nov.04.2010
One of the great pleasures of novel-writing is the research which, for almost every book, ought to bring the writer to investigate different areas of inquiry. To become a swift expert in something others might spend all their lives studying.That’s why I’ve taken up my sword.I’m working on a...
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Oct.19.2010
From the Publishers Weekly Starred Review. "The 33rd Pushcart anthology demonstrates that independent presses still publish much of the world's most engaging literature. In her AGNI essay, Bendithion, Harrison Solow considers the enigmatic otherworldliness of the world-class tenor and Welsh...
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Oct.04.2010
Here is the podcast of the October 2nd Interview I gave at CIUT Radio in Toronto:
http://tinyurl.com/2bw8ost
There is a little music and a few sponsor messages before the interview begins.
~ Harrison
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