Raids on the Underworld with Richard Gwyn
Richard GwynAdventures in writing and the work of the imagination.
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The Flight of the Isard, and three poems
I filmed this isard, or chamois, a few summers ago while hiking above Coma de Vaca, in the Spanish (Catalan) Pyrenees. I came across the clip on my laptop this morning and thought I would share it.
I had hiked up from the town of Queralbs...
The tortoise, the dog, the dolmen . . . and how our neolithic ancestors mapped the night sky
Dog in a Dolmen, 2015.
Walking last week where the Pyrenees descend towards the sea, I came upon a young tortoise, to be precise Testudo hermanni hermanni, a rare, critically endangered native species found only in the Albera Massif of nor...
The Labyrinth
The Minotaur — Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Last month, at the Chania Book Festival on the island of Crete, I took part in an event titled ‘When National Minotaurs Cross the Sea: Smyrna, Wales and Crete.’ I referred to this briefly...
Never go back . . . says who?
At Chania Book Festival, with Christiana Lambrinidis (left) and Pavlina Marvin, June 25, 2026.
Received wisdom has always been ‘Never Go Back’, but I beg to differ.
I’ve been going back for as long as I can remember and although it some...
María Rivera's poem 'The Dead' - 15 years on.
María Rivera, courtesy of Buenos Aires Poetry
Today I’m off to Crete to attend the Chania Book Festival, an event that has been growing in reputation since its inception in 2022. Chania was my home for a couple of years in the early 1980s,...
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