Our Bookshelf
Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
'These essays investigate the permeable boundaries between humans and their environment: skin, shore, water-surface. Seaglass is an invitation to live more fully, think deeply. A true gem.’
Helen Mort
‘Kathryn Tann has a poet's eye for fine detail. These essays are full of intricate, illuminating images, as bright and surprising as the lozenges of sea glass Tann searches out on the shore.’
Naomi Booth
‘This is a lovely lapidary arrangment of prose fragments and personal stories. Seaglass tells us about skin and swimming; it delights in dancing and performance and quietly hymns nature, from pavement weeds to Canadian wilderness.
And much like sea-worn beads of glass garnered on the shore, the prose here is reflective, refracting and full of gentle colour, as it leads us to blue pools and ponders the meditative moments in life.'
Jon Gower
‘True to its name, Seaglass is awash with bright, hard shards of truth and beauty, to be sifted by the reader and held up to the light. What dazzling colours and shapes they make, and how joyful to spend time lost in their intricate patterns. A truly accomplished and thoughtful collection.’
Mike Parker
Seaglass
On a windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure to be found: jewels of shining sea glass, swept in by the tide after years at sea. Gathered together in a jar on the windowsill, each seaworn pebble is a moment in time, a glinting archive of unknowable lives.
Seaglass is a collection of such moments; essays blending creative non-fiction with nature writing and memoir, and portraying with powerful observation and moving honesty the journey of a young woman navigating modern adulthood. The stories draw a map of Kathryn’s life, from Manchester to the South Wales coastline and out to the Thousand Islands in Canada’s Saint Lawrence River. Traversing wilderness, natural history, travel and water – rivers, lakes, coastlines and leisure centres – Seaglass explores shared experiences, anxieties, confidence and contentment.
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(2024)
Calon
176 pp
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(2024)
Edwards Fuglewicz Agency
Ros Edwards: Ros@efla.co.uk
Reviews
'These essays investigate the permeable boundaries between humans and their environment: skin, shore, water-surface. Seaglass is an invitation to live more fully, think deeply. A true gem.’
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