Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters - a quarter century of work - and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period. Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the 'letters' are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.

Roland Mathias is one of the most important writers to emerge in Wales since the Second World War. He was one of the founders of Dock Leaves in 1949 and became an outstanding editor of the magazine under its revised title, The Anglo-Welsh Review. He is a distinguished short-story writer, literary critic and, above all, a poet. His poetry is profoundly influenced by the personal challenge of Christian morality and focuses on the intertwined concerns of family, mutability, history and landscape. It is characterized by verbal inventiveness, skilful use of metre and honesty of observation. The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias contains his entire poetic output, from Days Enduring (1942) to A Field at Vallorcines (1996), as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces. The poems are fully annotated and, in addition to a biographical outline and bibliography, the editor's introduction includes an extended discussion of Mathias's poetic development and a review of critical opinions of his poetry. This is the definitive edition of the poetic work of one of the major figures of twentieth-century Welsh writing in English.

After discovering experimental hallucinogenic pills, a troubled artist, struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, embarks on a series of surreal trips into his subconscious - but is he ready for what he'll find there? As James Svengal searches for inner peace, his life spirals out of control and he is forced to confront harsh truths about his relationships, his work and himself. Animals talk, gramophones wash ashore, and relationships are tested in this surreal and affecting graphic novel from the critically acclaimed creative team of Lyndon White and Jordan Sam Adams.

The third season of the US sketch comedy show starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. The sketches are set in the fictional city of Portlandia, a comic rendering of Portland, Oregon, and feature Kyle MacLachan as the city's mayor. Guest stars to appear in the show include Aimee Mann, Selma Blair, Heather Graham, Tim Robbins, Gus van Sant and Jeff Goldblum. The episodes are: 'Winter in Portlandia', 'Take Back MTV', 'Missionaries', 'Nina's Birthday', 'Squiggleman', 'Off the Grid', 'The Temp', 'Soft Opening', 'Alexandra', 'No-Fo-O-Fo-Bridge' and 'Blackout'.

Welcome to Wakefield. Population 1,534 eccentric people and one exasperated reporter. T.D. Duff is a reporter at the only newspaper in the postage-stamp Southern town of Wakefield. He's a got a degree in journalism, a dead-end job, and a wickedly dry sense of humor. But then, he's not alone in Augusta County. There's Clarence (with one syllable), proud owner of a potato that looks like Tom Selleck; Nosh Jones, who is locked in mortal combat with Roger Shepherd for the title of The Most Famousest Snake Hunter in Augusta County; and Bug Wake, T.D.'s eccentric boss. Join T.D. and his buds, a bevy of buxom beauties and the world's meanest possum for a rollicking romp through the backwoods of Augusta County, a place that is so unimportant, even the state doesn't matter.

The Perseids brought it all out of the past, with a force like a blow that leaves you winded. The night lurched and seemed to swoop suddenly down. The boy still lay on his back, but when I sat up, gasping, I glimpsed the pale disc of his face as he turned to see what had startled me. 'It's all right,' I said, though it wasn't. It is the summer of 1954. Four young men, on a summer vacation buy an old car from a farmer and drive it from the hills of Wales all the way to the mountains of Spain. It is only a few years since the war, Europe is still in ruins. They are innocent and war-scarred, dreamers and realists, men but not much more than boys. They have their whole lives ahead of them. This will be their summer to remember. A beautiful, elegiac rumination on youth, friendship and the dreams that we hold. "A haunting meditation on memory and loss that takes the reader on a summer road trip to a vanished Spain. In this well-crafted, wistful novella, Sam Adams weaves his tapestry from fragments of a remembered friendship in a coming of age tale written with sixty years' bitter hindsight." - Richard Gwyn Sam Adams has created a rare novel in The Road to Zarauz, both timeless and very much of a time and a place, a past of hope and expectation erased in a moment, and what remains when hope is gone.

T.J. Llewelyn Prichard is best known as the author of Twm Sion Catti - claimed to be the first Welsh novel in English and popular enough to be pirated in the mid-19th century. Dozens of versions of the story have been published since. If only for this reason, Prichard ranks as an important Welsh antecedent.