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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 18h

'New Perspectives on Gillian Clarke' by Linden Peach is the first extensive examination of Clarke's work published in this century, discussing her as an innovative, politically-alert and scientifically- and cosmologically-aware Welsh writer of global significance.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/new-per...

‘From her first publication in 1970 to the present day, few
poets have contributed as much as Gillian Clarke to Welsh
writing in English. A thorough-going critical account of her
accomplishment has been much needed, and here, at last, we
have it. Linden Peach’s detailed analysis traces her journey
from the pioneering feminist poems of the 1970s to her later
work on climate change, cosmogenesis and pacificism.
Throughout, her rootedness within Welsh culture is
emphasised in a volume which constitutes a vital read for all
those concerned with the development of contemporary poetry.’

Jane Aaron, Emeritus Professor, University of South Wales

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

Please do have a read of some of David Graeber's words on the policy of Universal Basic Income.

We have got a real problem the way society is
structured. I point this out when we think about the
robots taking our jobs. Why can’t we just redistribute
the jobs in a reasonable way so that everybody
does a little and then we enjoy ourselves? We
have a stupid system where you don’t get any
money unless you work. So we could change
that. We could just give people the money.

There are many different solutions. You could try
to shorten working hours. But I like that one that is
called a universal basic income. It’s like language.
Everybody contributes to this civilization, this
culture, and knowledge. So why don’t we just pay
everybody for that?
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- David Graeber

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 18h

Can’t quite believe it’s done but it’s done.

Two years of translating and unpicking (and growing a human somewhere in the middle) the most bizarre yet brilliant manifesto by Dr William Price: Gwyllllis yn Nayd.

Spoilers: these aren’t the ravings of a lunatic as previous biographers have concluded.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22h

"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops."
via Ian Almond

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 1d

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Just hoping that one day soon, people will tire of targeting and terrifying asylum seekers and instead, they will turn on politicians who whip up hatred and division to grab at power for themselves…
They are the ones who are failing us.
Not these people.
Prejudice can never make anyone’s life better

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 1d

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

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Llion Wigley @wigs24.bsky.social · 1d

Albwm Disc a Dawn, 1970, y clawr gorau erioed, gyda Iris Williams, Y Diliau, Heather Jones, Dafydd Iwan, Yr Awr, a Meic Stevens, 'the only "way-out" figure on the scene'.

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Iwan Williams @iwanwills.bsky.social · 5d

Richard Tice. Laura Anne Jones. Lee Anderson. Danny Kruger. Sarah Pochin. Andrea Jenkyns. David Jones. Nadine Dorries. Mark Reckless. Sarah Atherton. Ann Widdecombe. Jake Berry.Lucy Allan.

Nigel Farage! Nigel Farage,can you hear me? Your boy took a helluva beating! 😀👋🎊

#CaerffiliAmByth #YmaOHyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 5d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid Cymru WIN Caerphilly
💚 Plaid Cymru yn ENNILL Caerffili.

Llongyfarchiadau Lindsay Whittle - the new Member of the Senedd for Caerphilly.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 5d

An impressive Plaid victory in Caerphilly. A 27% swing from Lab to Plaid. Welsh Labour's dominance crumbling. The limits of Farage & Reform's appeal underlined. Maybe the Westminster commentariat can now stop talking abt the unstoppable momentum behind Farage. Reform are beatable.

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Alun Burge @alunburge.bsky.social · 4d

Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d

The extent to which the news media cycle is focusing on Reform rather than the wider strategic goals of Plaid Cymru as the party that actually won is a sign that much of the media and political establishment is going to again end up blindsided by trends that were visible long before

Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

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Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social · 5d

Welsh word of the day:

Gobaith - hope

medium.com/@DyfrigJones...

Learn a Welsh word: Gobaith

(It means hope)

medium.com

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Ann Kempster @annkempster.com · 5d

I forgot what it feels to wake up to good news.

Da iawn Caerffili.

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 5d

Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:

PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.

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Anthony Slaughter @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social · 5d

Llongyfarchiadau Lyndsay Whittle and @plaidcymru.bsky.social ! Lyndsay will do a great job of representing his constituents.

Thank you to all those in Caerffili who voted against the snake oil salesmen of the far right. Their politics of hatred and division has no place in our communities.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 5d

The people of Caerphilly are not nearly as gullible as Nigel Farage thought they were. For him and his abominable party, the by-election loss is a huge setback that they weren’t expecting✍️ Martin Shipton

Reform's defeat is a triumph for Wales

Martin Shipton Lindsay Whittle’s triumph in the Caerphilly by-election is a victory not only for Plaid Cymru, but for Wales. Like many others, I had been seduced into believing that the Farage bandwag...

nation.cymru

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TAFF 💕🐷🐄🐑🐥🪿🙏Annibyniaeth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @vegan-4-indy.bsky.social · 5d

Da iawn Caerffili, dych chi wedi gwneud Cymru'n falch!
Well done Caerphilly, you have made Wales proud!
👊💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 5d

Caerffili this morning…

a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .

ALT: a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .

media.tenor.com

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Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru @gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social · 5d

Mae’n wythnos Mynediad Agored!

Rydym yn falch o fod wedi cyhoeddi sawl llyfr Mynediad Agored eleni, ac mae modd darllen pob un am ddim ar ein gwefan: www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/mynediad-ago...

Eisiau dysgu mwy am gyhoeddi Mynediad Agored? Ewch at: www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/app/uploads/...

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Leanne Wood @leannewood.bsky.social · 5d

💛💚 I am very much hoping that everyone who can see a future Cymru where we all live well and with dignity, looking after each other as well as our planet, where we all work together to reduce divisions and increase prosperity for all, will vote for Plaid Cymru in Caerfili today. Cariad mawr.
💚💛

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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 5d

Fel hyn y mae yng nghyfundrefn Cyfiawnder Droseddol Cymru - cyfundrefn sy'n methu ym mhob ffordd bosib gan gynnwys hyn...

The reality of the Welsh Criminal Justice system - a system that fails on every possible metric and not just this...

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HMP Berwyn: Welsh-speaking prisoners 'told to speak English' in prison

Ex-inmates say Welsh speakers were made to use English at Wales' biggest prison.

www.bbc.com

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 5d

Learn more with Open Access!

We are proud to have published several new Open Access books this year and they can all be read for free here: www.uwp.co.uk/open-access/

Interested in understanding more about #OpenAccess publishing? Read more here: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...

#OAWeek

Graphic showing the covers of A Welcoming Nation?, Inventor of Britain, Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia, and Welsh Not

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Elliw Gwawr @elliwg.bsky.social · 5d

'Gorfodi siaradwyr Cymraeg i droi i'r Saesneg' yng ngharchar y Berwyn www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert...

Carchar y Berwyn: 'Gorfodi siaradwyr Cymraeg i droi i'r Saesneg'

Dywedodd nifer o gyn-garcharorion bod yna

www.bbc.com

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Elliw Gwawr @elliwg.bsky.social · 5d

Welsh-speaking inmates 'told to speak English' in prison www.bbc.com/news/article...

HMP Berwyn: Welsh-speaking prisoners 'told to speak English' in prison

Ex-inmates say Welsh speakers were made to use English at Wales' biggest prison.

www.bbc.com

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 8d

'This is a complex and compelling book that underlines how art can illuminate the "moral heart" of things.'

A deeply insightful review of 'Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine' from @clairemitchell.bsky.social in the Irish Times.

This is an uncategorisable work of creativity and activism. Part lyrical memoir, it recounts Mac Giolla Chríost’s experiences in Palestine and in Derry, where his Irish-speaking Protestant family resettled after being threatened out of Belfast in the 1970s. It is also a poetic analysis of the work of four other Celts - Brian Keenan, Dervla Murphy, Colum McCann and Osi Rhys Osmond - who approached Palestine through autobiography, travel writing, fiction and visual art. The book creates an inter-textual conversation which shifts between theory and the sensory realities of cherries, sage tea, checkpoints and nightmares. Bearing witness to colonialism and conflict, it asks how identity shapes testimony. This is a complex and compelling book that underlines how art can illuminate the "moral heart of things."

Claire Mitchell, The Irish Times

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 8d

Leabhar fileata, iontach le Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost.

My favourite kind of sociology - full-hearted, emotionally and ethically involved.

University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 8d

'This is a complex and compelling book that underlines how art can illuminate the "moral heart" of things.'

A deeply insightful review of 'Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine' from @clairemitchell.bsky.social in the Irish Times.

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