Gwalia Gazette – World Book Night 2019
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22nd July 2019

Gwalia Gazette – World Book Night 2019

Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood was selected by the WBN 2019 coordinator Linda Parr with 47 contributors reading Under Milk Wood and then selecting their ten favourite words. Artists, translators and writers sent their chosen words from Canada, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and USA.

 

My favourite words were – in English and Welsh

 

Biscuit / bisged

Kippers / penwaig

Nuzzle / Trwyno

Sill / Sil

Tea caddy / Cadi te

Tea gowns / Gynau the

Treacle / Triog

Trousers / Trowsus

Wet nosed / Tlawd gwlyb

Whale juice / Morfil sudd

 

The core group of WBN United Artists visited Carmarthen and Laugharne in March 2019 and after a trip to Dylan Thomas’s former home, the words were jumbled up to use as the basis for elements of a local small newspaper, the Gwalia Gazette, featuring local news, classified ads, a poets’ corner, advertisements for local shops and services, racing results and lonely hearts.

 

Link here to a PDF version of the Gwalia Gazette ~

 

http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/pdf/gazette.pdf

 

Gwalia Gazette Video ~

 

For World Book Night, a video was made featuring photographs from Carmarthen and Laugharne, a specially produced map by Linda Parr, and the making of the Gwalia Gazette with visual responses to some of the words by Guy Begbie, Jeremy Dixon, Gen Harrison, Zelda Velika.

 

https://vimeo.com/330330009

 

Contributors to the project: Vick Bain, Guy Begbie, Kate Bernstein, Csilla Biro, Julie Blankenship, Sarah Bodman, Nancy Campbell, Chrystal Cherniwchan, Andrew Dally, Jeremy Dixon, Sara Elgerot, Su Fahy, Jil Fairclough, Stephen Fowler, Jan Fyfe, Hazel Grainger, Gen Harrison, Hazel Ingrey, Rosemary Ingrey, Eva C Johansson, Elaine Knight, Mary Kritz, Pauline Lamont‐Fisher, Jill Lauriston, Daniel Lehan, Tamar MacLellan, Barbara A Morton, Linda Parr, Sumi Perera, Karen Pierce, Bernd W Plake, Catherine Polley, Martin Polley, Alison Raybould, Andrea Robinson, Lynne Shaw, Gwen Simpson, Noriko Suzuki Bosco, Elisabeth Tonnard, Eran Tzelgov, Zelda Velika, Cathey Webb, Corinne Welch, Ulla West, Maria White, Roy Willingham, and Philippa Wood.

 

Copies of the Gazette are held in the following collections and libraries ~

 

Archivo Libri d”Artista, Milan

Bavarian State Library

The Saint Petersburg Literary Museum

Caulfield Library, Monash University, Melbourne

The British Library, London

Cyprus University of Technology

KKV Grafik Artist’s Book Arkiv, Sweden

NabilaFluxus Archive Museum, Treviso

State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

Tate Britain, London

Yale Centre for British Art, USA