‘A enir cenedl ar unwaith?’
News from Rob Mimpriss
5th July 2024
Voters in the Celtic nations, who rejected a system in which a simple majority of English MPs can veto their nationhood; voters in Birmingham, who rejected a system which supports and justifies the obliteration of Gaza and much of the Global South; voters in Brighton and Bristol, who rejected a system in which the very planet we live on is treated as a mere resource; voters in Islington, who rejected the offer of immediate yet superficial change, to be represented by a man who has campaigned for change all his life; and voters in Clacton and elsewhere who rejected a system in which the parts of England which have ceased to be useful are treated as though they have ceased to be; are telling us that for them the established way of running the world, capitalism concealed with a skein of liberalism, is no longer tenable. The rise of fascism in Russia, America and much of Europe is a warning of what could take its place. It is for Starmer to prove that he takes that warning seriously.
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Books by Rob Mimpriss
Pugnacious Little Trolls
‘freely and fiercely inventive short stories… supercharged with ideas.’
Jon Gower, Nation Cymru
Prayer at the End: Twenty-Three Stories
‘heaving with loss, regret and familial bonds.’
Annexe Magazine
For His Warriors: Thirty Stories
‘sketched with a depth and sureness of touch which makes them memorable and haunting.’
Caroline Clark, gwales.com
Reasoning: Twenty Stories
‘dark, complex, pensively eloquent’
Sophie Baggott, New Welsh Review
The Sleeping Bard: Three Nightmare Visions of the World, of Death, and of Hell
Translated by T. Gwynn Jones, with an introduction by Rob Mimpriss.
A Book of Three Birds
‘Lucid, skilful, and above all, of enormous timely significance.’
Jim Perrin
Dangerous Asylums
‘In this exemplary collaboration between medical science and imagination, lives preserved in official records, in the language and diagnoses of their times, are restored not just to light, but to humanity and equality. This anthology is a resurrection.’
Philip Gross
Hallowe’en in the Cwm: The Stories of Owen Wynne Jones
‘An invaluable translation.’
Angharad Price
Going South: The Stories of Richard Hughes Williams
Translated by Rob Mimpriss, with an introduction by E. Morgan Humphreys