Doggin' AroundAlan Plater was a full time writer from 1961 until his death in 2010, with almost 300 credits in radio, television, theatre and films plus 6 novels, occasional journalism, broadcasting and teaching. His television career began with a string of single plays as well as contributions to the pioneering Z Cars series. Subsequent work has included Barchester Chronicles, The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Fortunes of War, A Very British Coup, Misterioso, Doggin

Robin Moger

when red defines a memory or mood

Concluding with the 3000-word poem ‘Red Hawthorn-Hedged’

Stephen Watts begins a regular review of poetry in translation with Mahmoud Darwish’s Why Did you Leave the Horse alone

photographs are plentiful

translated by Thomas Aplin

Nathan Abrams lectures in film at the University of Wales

often in the name of love and always in a language that (pounding Pound) 'hath 'ham' innit

Blake Morrison

Tatyana Retivova

His sojourn makes for an unpredictable

the author has created an unconventional thriller that will linger long in the memory