Real Cardiff Mary-Ann Constantine

Real Cardiff Mary-Ann ConstantineDiscover more of Cardiff in this latest volume by Peter Finch, Real Cardiff The Flourishing City. In it the Cardiffian continues his vigorous exploration of the obvious and the hidden vistas of the city, discovering new treasures and revisiting past haunts to find them drastically altered over just ten years. The pace of change has never been quicker, surpassing the booms of the citys nineteenth century heyday, and the clearances and redevelopment of

Ambit spoke of “the deep humanity running through the book… and a happy determination to get to grips with the messiness of everyday life

and including many thought-provoking fiction from Sudan

has been castrated

and his poetry

a crazed Noah - all are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded in The Arches

’ On his release he moved to France

and endurance

• Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow)… [Others] are poems of pity and terror

A poet and artist

and reviews by him have appeared in the TLS

most recently Brigham Young