Never thought I’d be 6 years+ between books, but hopefully not too long until I get the next one finished. You can still pick up That Lone Ship from the Parthian website or anywhere that sells books. www.parthianbooks.com/products/that-lone-ship
Reminded on Instagram that the hometown launch of my first book was 6 years ago today. Great night in the TechHub Cafe in Swansea and had this lovely write up on the Parthian blog the next day: parthianbooksinternblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/the-launch-of-that-lone-ship-by-rhys-owain-williams
Covered walkways & bridges leading to units either too big or too small, & that weird half-hidden piss-stained climb to an S4C studio. Took these photos of St. David’s back in 2021 when work began on the new Arena-adjacent square – I’m guessing we will eventually lose all traces.
Always been quite fond of St. David’s myself, even though growing up in the 1990s/2000s I only ever remember it being a bit of a ghost town on the edge of the city centre. Like Parc Tawe, it’s a 1980s pre-Internet vision of what shopping should look like in the 21st century.
One for the Swansea ’eds: is this logo for the slowly-disappearing St. David’s Shopping Centre by the same artist as the much-loved Penscynor Wildlife Park car sticker, or is it just of the same time? Have only just clocked the similarities.
A painful but important collection of tributes to Chris as both a person and a writer. Diolch to @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social for asking me to contribute. Thinking of all his loved ones.
Christopher Cornwell’s dazzling debut collection, Ergasy, was published by The Lonely Crowd. Here, his fellow writers pay tribute to an exceptional talent who will be sorely missed by all who knew …
No matter what I do it seems that I will always confuse Brian Eno for Phil Spector and I can’t apologise enough to Brian Eno for that
A fund has been set up by one of Chris’s friends to help his loved ones with funeral costs – if you’d like to donate to that you can do so here:
I have created this page in memory of our beloved Chris to raise funds for his funeral/cele… Laura Dickens needs your support for Chris Cornwell memorial fund
Still can’t quite believe the tragic and unexpected news that Christopher Cornwell has passed away. Chris was such a warm-hearted and generous person – a champion of other writers and a wonderful poet who loved to test the boundaries of form in his constellation-like poems. RIP Chris x
