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Planet: The Welsh Internationalist magazine. Welsh & international politics & culture. Founded 1970. Following/RT ≠endorsement

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Planet magazine
5 months
A memory montage video farewell (for now?) from Planet - huge thanks for your support! ✊❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍 We're keeping this account active as we hope to be able to relaunch in the future - you can help these efforts & keep consciousness of Planet alive by continuing to post about us🧵👇
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Planet magazine
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A sad update from ourselves. But a final issue has been launched, & thanks to our authors what a wonderful one it is! You can buy it here Diolch o❤️to everyone who's contributed so far to our crowdfunder
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Planet magazine
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📢Final issue! Thanks to our writers it's bursting with evidence that the path of neoliberalism & philistinism is not an inevitable trajectory for Wales The spirit of the grassroots lights up the issue (as do many fires–spot 'em!).
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Planet magazine
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Dear @PrifWeinidog @MarkDrakeford we’re one of 47 organisations from across Wales asking that you please support a #CeasefireNow , and speak up for peace, justice and humanity: Many thanks to @Cymdeithas for organising the open letter. Diolch yn fawr.
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Cymdeithas yr Iaith
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Mae 47 mudiad wedi arwyddo llythyr i'r Prif Weinidog yn galw arno i gefnogi cadoediad i'r rhyfela yn Llain Gaza. Rydym hefyd yn erfyn ar Aelodau o'r Senedd bleidleisio o blaid cynnig NDM8391 pan ddaw gerbron y Senedd yfory. I weld y llythyr yn llawn:
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Planet magazine
10 months
A statement from our Board 👇
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Planet magazine
7 years
*New issue!* Rachel Trezise interviews Michael Sheen on Aberavon beach, a journey on the long-lost Carmarthen to Aberystwyth train-line, perspectives on independence from Catalan & Kurdish writers, & much more... Thanks to all our wonderful contributors:
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Planet magazine
8 months
To mark the final issue, following a BCW decision to stop our grant, our editor outlines how this has come about, & why such periodicals are so vital, in a wider context of neoliberal Wales & the open letter campaign to save mags.
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Planet magazine
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Diolch yn fawr iawn to the brilliant Marian Delyth who came to photograph the handpacking of the final issue. A pleasure for us to pack your issues all together (& have a good old gossip) for one last time. A little glimpse also of the global reach of the magazine. 🧵1/2
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Planet magazine
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📢*Update from the open letter campaign to safeguard all Welsh magazines & websites in both languages* Many thanks to all who are in support. Please see the urgent message below & how you can help. You can read the open letter here: #SaveWelshMagazines
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Planet magazine
4 years
We're very sad to hear the news that Jan Morris has passed away. A more compassionate, generous-spirited & astute writer of Wales & the world it's hard to imagine. The kindest of friends to Planet - here she is at our 40th birthday 10 years ago. 1/2 ⬇️
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Planet magazine
5 years
*New on Planet Extra* As we face #GE2019 , poet Patrick Jones argues why independence is the only way out of Wales' current malaise of austerity, hopelessness & xenophobia, & celebrates the people & movements that have inspired his stance... @heretic101
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Planet magazine
2 years
As the #UBI pilot launched this week, here's a throwback to Harry Waveney's in-depth article on UBI in 2020, interviewing figures from across Wales, & drawing on the work of intellectuals beyond our borders: To buy/subscribe
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Planet magazine
9 months
📢Appeal to readers: please respond to this petition! Cardiff's libraries appear to be under threat again, including the suggestion that hard copies of magazines will no longer be available. If you love browsing Planet for free, questions need to be asked of the council...
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Cardiff People's Assembly
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The classic technique: Opening hours are cut, the service is run down, use falls as residents find their local library is not open when they want & does not have what they want, this is then used as an excuse to close libraries. Sign & Share our Petition
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Planet magazine
3 years
Today we're joining the worldwide 100th🎂celebrations of #RaymondWilliams - a Planet Patron & contributor whose ideas influenced the magazine from the start. Here's our new Raymond Williams digest page - a collection of Planet features by & about RW...
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Planet magazine
4 years
We're very sad to hear the news of Emyr Humphreys' passing aged 101, and are honoured that he was a Patron of Planet for many years. A truly principled writer, conscientious objector, and perhaps the epitomy of a Welsh internationalist. Heddwch i'w lwch.
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Seren Books
4 years
It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of Emyr Humphreys, one of the greatest literary talents of the twentieth century in Wales and beyond. We had the honour of publishing his works for many years, our thoughts are with his family.
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Planet magazine
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📢Delighted to announce the winner of our New Writers' Competition! 🍾 Congratulations to @DiffwysCriafol for her searingly powerful insight into the emotional fall-out from eviction & the troubling class politics of the housing crisis, which can be read in the issue to come 🏘️
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Planet magazine
7 years
Rachel Trezise joins Michael Sheen for a walk along Aberavon beach. They discuss what it is like to move between the worlds of Hollywood and Welsh radicalism, how to unite a demoralised country via arts & politics, & why being good isn’t boring…
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Planet magazine
6 years
*New issue of Planet!* A lush green cover for our new Spring issue: Read challenging, provoking & inspiring work by writers including Mererid Hopwood, Dan Evans, Tristan Hughes, Venkateswar Ramaswamy, Stevie Davies, Ned Thomas, Tracey Rhys, Peter Lord, Mary-Ann Constantine & more
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Planet magazine
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📢*New issue launched!* Thanks to our amazing authors, including Niall Griffiths in a new series, Menna Elfyn, Rowan Zhao, Mike Parker & competition winner Diffwys Criafol🌟 Read more for some startlingly bright shards of hope amid warnings for the future
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Planet magazine
4 years
#Planet50 Thank you to the brilliant contributors to our new celebratory 🎂issue & to our Guest Book Review editor @mikeparkerwales The issue features some of our best-loved authors from the last 1/2 century + many new voices!
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Planet magazine
1 year
The 3rd speaker at our @DyddiauDu event is our editor. She'll introduce the multifaceted history of the magazine, how its concept of 'Welsh internationalism' has evolved into the 21st-century & reflect on the place of print in an era of AI... Plus a Q&A! 🎟️
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Planet magazine
10 months
📢Many thanks for your solidarity ❤️ There are 3 crucial ways you can support Planet right now that will make a world of difference (& also enjoy some of the best writing Wales & the world has to offer!) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍 Treat yourself, or give an Xmas gift. Please share. See 🧵1/5👇
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Planet magazine
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📢The new Planet issue is now launched! 🚀 Many thanks to all our wonderful contributors! 🌟 & to David Garner for his timely artwork 'Weeping' on the cover... #NyeBevan #NHS75 For more info Buy/subscribe
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Planet magazine
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Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed! In combination with better than anticipated magazine sales we'll now be able to reach the essential costs required. All funds raised from now on will also go towards the aims outlined here Diolch yn fawr!❤️
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Planet magazine
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A new Xmas gift option! 🎄If you'd like to support Planet & want a 🎁for someone who loves Wales & reading (or for yourself...) check out our '6 Decades of Planet' offer for only *£40* in the thread below... Celebrate over 1/2 century of great writing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🧵1/3👇Plz share
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Planet magazine
3 years
*Planet Extra: archive lecture for #RaymondWilliams ' centenary!* 🎂 In 2021 we're celebrating groundbreaking Welsh thinker Raymond Williams - former Planet Patron & contributor. Listen a recording of an extraordinary lecture he gave 🧵1/2 @R_Williams_Soc
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Planet magazine
4 years
📢Home-baked/artisanal/hand-wrapped/cottage-industry journalism making its way to your letterbox very soon... 📕 Thanks to Lowri for helping pack in the garden & rescuing issues from summer showers, & to our very patient postwoman for all her assistance... #PublishingInLockdown
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Planet magazine
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#Planet50 Today we launch our 50th anniversary issue! 🎂While we can't celebrate in person yet, we have some exciting plans for 2020 & 2021. Thank you to all our readers for your commitment & support over the last 1/2 century! To read more about us ➡️
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Planet magazine
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A glimpse of the new (final?) issue of Planet... For more info To buy To support our crowdfunder Diolch yn fawr ❤️
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Planet magazine
4 years
Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! Many thanks to all our women and non-binary writers over the last 12 months; & for contributing in such inspirational ways despite having to juggle the challenges of the pandemic. Too many to tag you all - here's just a snapshot 🤹‍♀️✊♀️🏳️‍⚧️⚧️
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Planet magazine
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A new Xmas gift option! 🎄 If you'd like to support Planet & want a 🎁for someone who loves Wales & reading (or for yourself...) check out our '6 Decades of Planet' offer for only *£40* in the thread below Celebrate over 1/2 century of great writing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Please share 🧵1/3 👇
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Planet magazine
5 years
We've experienced another cut to our WBC grant, so now receive less than 1/2 the grant we received in 2008. But we're going from strength to strength & with your help can flourish further. Want to help? See our brand new Supporter Subscription options!
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Planet magazine
6 years
Rhian E. Jones gives an in-depth review of Welsh releases including those by Gwenno & the Manics, celebrating how they shatter into beautiful shards monolithic ideas of 'Britishness', 'Welshness' & what it means to be working class: Image ©Michal Iwanowski
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Planet magazine
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*New issue of Planet!* Enjoy writing of lasting value by authors including Ambreena Manji, Rowan Williams, Andrew Green, Durre Shahwar, Robat Idris, Pascale Petit, John Barnie, Catrin Kean, Rajvi Glasbrook Griffiths & many more…
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Planet magazine
6 years
Happy International Women's Day to our readers! Many thanks to all our women writers who continue to inspire us #IWD2019 There are too many of you to tag, but here are those of you we published in the magazine and in Planet Extra
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Planet magazine
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*New issue now launched!* 96 pages packed with utterly unique, inspiring angles on Welsh independence, how to resist persecution & austerity + much more. Includes memoir, art & book reviews, poetry, analysis & everything in between!
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Planet magazine
6 years
New online article: *The Healing House* Patrick Jones commemorates #NHS70 in poetry & prose by paying tribute to the extraordinary care given by NHS Wales to his mother Irene, who passed away in June:
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Planet magazine
5 years
Keith Morris' photographs appeared in Planet across the decades. He gave such life-affirming insights into the nooks and crannies of Welsh society. Gorffwys mewn hedd Keith. Pob cydymdeimlad gyda'r teulu.
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Mike Parker
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Keith Morris has been a one-man Aberystwyth and Ceredigion PR unit for years. He did more to promote the area he adored than almost everyone else combined. His photos were kind, joyous, inquisitive and radiantly beautiful. Such a sad day.
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Planet magazine
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📢Many thanks to Heledd Fychan MS for her online article in support of the urgent #openletter campaign to safeguard Welsh magazines & websites. Read the article here: Read the open letter here: Diolch yn fawr @Heledd_Plaid
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Planet magazine
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It's always a pleasure to work with new journalists! Read this brilliant article by Ben Jones on why the #hardcore punk scene is so important for working-class Welsh culture 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊
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Planet magazine
3 years
📢*Calling all budding writers/journalists!* ✍️ This year we've decided to change our competition so it's now open to all new writers - whatever your age! More info about eligibility & everything else: 🏆
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Planet magazine
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Planet the Welsh Internationalist: offering a radical approach to Wales & the world since 1970 In 2020 celebrate HALF A CENTURY of an independent voice for Wales🎂& buy it here! Read about the new issue 👉 237 cover📸by @JdrAbell
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Planet magazine
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The 1st issue of a new decade & of our 50th 🎂year is now launched! Read in-depth, stimulating work by writers including Dan Evans, Angharad Tomos, Martin Johnes, Gee Williams & many more...
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Planet magazine
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Appropriately enough, the cover photograph of Aberystwyth as a globe is by our designer & Production Officer Hywel Edwards - diolch yn fawr Hywel! Check out his wonderful artwork, graphic design & calligraphy here & follow him on Insta at @hywel72
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Planet magazine
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A note to say thanks so, so much to everyone who is contributing to our crowdfunder - it's hugely appreciated. To share/contribute: Diolch yn fawr ❤️
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Planet magazine
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What better way of commemorating #RaymondWilliams ' 100th 🎂than to launch a Welsh grassroots community movement? Read about exciting new resources of hope in the latest issue of Planet: @ExpoWalGoch & Community Movement Cymru ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Planet magazine
7 years
Many thanks @indyfestcymru for such a great festival and for our stall! Brilliant debates & pooling of ideas about independence & much more.
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Planet magazine
7 years
The Old College (Planet's home) now has a beautiful gallery overlooking the sea - currently showing a fascinating exhibition on the legacy of an overlooked Welsh scientist & his role in developing our understanding of evolution 360 Image: Hywel Edwards
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Planet magazine
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Huge thanks to all who've contributed. If we reach £10,000 this will relieve pressure to raise 💷elsewhere for redundancy pay & enabling the company to go dormant - thereby making a future re-launch more feasible. To contribute/share 📸©️Marian Delyth
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Planet magazine
5 years
We are so sorry to hear about Karel Lek's passing. We had the privilege of filming this interview with Karel where he told the story of fleeing Nazi antisemitism before becoming an artist in Wales. An incredibly moving (& witty) conversation & a lovely man
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Planet magazine
4 years
Under 30 & have written something you'd be proud to see published? Know a promising young writer? ✍️🔖🏆 Our Essay Competition deadline is 1 September 2020! Please RT & spread the word - many thanks 🙂
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Planet magazine
1 year
Many thanks to all including @NUJofficial who have signed this open letter to safeguard the future of all Welsh magazines & websites in both languages. Read further for how reductions in funding available since 2008 have impacted working conditions & viability of publications.
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Mike Parker
1 year
An open letter, signed by 143 Welsh writers, calling for urgent action to address the financial precarity of news/culture periodicals and websites in Wales. The situation is desperate. Please read and RT.
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Planet magazine
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*New on Planet Extra* As we face #GE2019 poet Patrick Jones argues why independence is the only way out of Wales' current malaise of austerity, hopelessness & xenophobia, & celebrates the people & movements that have inspired his stance... #IndyWales
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Planet magazine
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Sunday is #InternationalWomensDay & we'd like to thank you to all our women writers. However we hope that on Sunday you'll all be having a well-deserved rest - so here prematurely is a word-cloud of wonderful women who've written for us over the last 12 months... ♀️✍️
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Planet magazine
7 years
Happy International Women’s Day! Diwrnod Rhyngwladol y Merched Hapus! Many thanks to all our brilliant women writers over the last 12 months Diolch yn fawr i’n awduron benwyaidd bendigedig dros y 12 mis diwethaf
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Planet magazine
3 years
Great to see both Sugar & Slate by @charwilliamsOBE - published by us in 2002... ...plus what's arguably Planet's 'founding text' - The Welsh Extremist: a Culture in Crisis by Ned Thomas in this top 10 books about Welsh identity by @richard_king
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Planet magazine
1 year
In Planet, we celebrate 50 years of the South Wales Miners' Library🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚⛏️ Sian Williams & Steven Lovatt on why this unique organisation is vital, as working-class history, libraries & adult education become ever more neglected...
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Planet magazine
2 years
Huge thanks to our amazing contributors! 🌟Special thanks to @helensandbag our guest book review editor who also stepped in to write an excellent editorial while our editor is temporarily working reduced hours for cancer treatment
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Planet magazine
2 years
📢New issue of Planet! Spring has come early, with themes including ENERGY (from renewable community schemes & live drawing performances), women's revolution in Iran & – in time for #LGBTHM23 – radical empathy with #trans rights! 🌱
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Planet magazine
4 years
New Nov-Feb birthday issue out now! Celebrate 50 years of Planet providing conscientious, radical perspectives on Wales & the world 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍🎂 Subscribe ➡️ We're despatching issues as usual, but there may be slight postal delay #COVID19
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Planet magazine
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New issue of Planet! "I know of no other magazine which collates Welsh ideas & values so thoughtfully with intellectual developments in the world at large, & interprets the results in such excellent journalism." Jan Morris
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Planet magazine
4 years
We remember #JanMorris - Planet author & Patron, & a supporter & inspiration to so many. "There was nothing fey or fluffy about Jan's kindness. Kindness is sharp as a blade. It is radical, subversive, even." Mike Parker #LGBTHM21
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Planet magazine
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Many thanks to @yesismorecymru esp. @cianciaran & @elinmelyn1 for a truly spectacular, morale-lifting event. Really enjoyed the acts, & meeting new readers & writers on our stall.Thanks to @desolationwales for being such comradely stall-neighbours too! Diolch yn fawr i chi i gyd!
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Planet magazine
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📢Calling all writers/journalists! People of all ages are welcome to submit to our 2023 New Writers' Competition... Deadline: 1 September 2023. Word-count: 1500-2000 words. For more info about eligibility & everything else:
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Planet magazine
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Brilliant news for the town, university & west Wales as a whole. Well done to the Old College team for their hard work. Llongyfarchiadau!
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Aber Uni News
7 years
£10m to transform Aberystwyth University's Old College
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Planet magazine
7 years
Sending solidarity from Planet: the Welsh Internationalist to @CatalanView & the Catalan people in the fight for press freedom & democracy
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Planet magazine
5 years
Planet depends mainly on event stalls for our sales income, & those events are now being cancelled 😢 In response, we're launching a 'virtual stall' & an offer of *5 issues for the price of 4*! THREAD 1/3👇
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Planet magazine
1 year
Please share this update on the open letter campaign to safeguard magazines and media websites in both languages. If you've written for a publication/website funded by BCW & would like to add your name to the open letter, 📧Mike at savewelshmagazines @gmail .com by 4 Sept Diolch
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Mike Parker
1 year
Update on the open letter (seen here ) signed by 150+ Welsh writers, calling for urgent solutions to the chronic structural underfunding of our national magazine and website sector. Please share. Diolch yn fawr.
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Planet magazine
1 year
We are really excited to have been given a publisher showcase by the inspirational people at @DyddiauDu ! Come along on 29th Sept for a conversation with Emily Trahair our editor, plus readings from Planet poets Taz Rahman & Katherine Stansfield. 🎟️
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Planet magazine
1 year
Many thanks to our colleague Lowri for all her packing efforts over the last few days - listen out for the plonk of the new Planet issue landing on your doormats across Wales and worldwide... 📦📬🌍
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Planet magazine
7 years
Planet: the Welsh Internationalist - offering a radical, independent approach to Wales & the world since 1970
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Planet magazine
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Thanks so much to our new guest book review editor Steven Lovatt for a brilliant range of in-depth reviews of new titles from Wales. Such a shame he could only guest edit 1 review section.
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Planet magazine
1 year
A new poem by Taz Rahman follows the story of a man fleeing persecution, who finds himself working as a food delivery rider, 'carrying flavours of the world to Cardiff homes' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍 For more info: To buy the current issue/subscribe:
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Planet magazine
4 years
📢 Many congratulations to Harry Waveney who has won our Young Writers' Essay Competition! 🍾🏆 You'll be able to read his extraordinary, poignant perspective on 21st-century Welsh internationalism in the forthcoming #50th anniversary issue of Planet... @LuxuryCymru 1/2 👇
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Planet magazine
5 years
*New issue of Planet just launched!* 96 pages packed with in-depth views on the most urgent issues facing Wales & the world from some of Wales' finest authors... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍
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Planet magazine
2 years
Introducing the very special guests at our 50th anniversary fundraiser @CeredigionMus First up: we're delighted to feature a set from Breton-Welsh singer songwriter @KatellKeineg whose voice has been described as a ‘beautiful and wild force of nature’ by The New Yorker! 🧵⬇️
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Planet magazine
4 years
#Planet50 We're delighted that the National Library will be hosting a free online event celebrating Planet at 50! Join Mike Parker in conversation with founding editor Ned Thomas & current editor Emily Trahair 08.12.20 at 5.30pm🍾📚 Tickets ➡️
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Planet magazine
1 year
In the latest Planet -the return of the repressed... Why from O'r Ddaear Hen to Gwledd & the forthcoming Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras, from Wales to Finland, Cornwall to Laos, folk horror has such resonance for small nations... ☠️🪦🧟
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Planet magazine
10 months
We'd like to express huge gratitude to everyone who's supported us during a challenging year. The editor would like to thank especially everyone who's offered support during her cancer treatment. We hope you all have a lovely festive break. Cyfarchion y Tymor i bawb 🎄❤️ 🧵👇
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Planet magazine
7 years
The Dragon Has Two Tongues is a phenomenal series on Welsh history, culture & identity, & has so much to offer to address the crises Wales faces today. It would be brilliant if rights could be secured for this. Plz RT the @MoviesWales tweet below! #MagpieorMarshmallow ?
@MoviesWales
WALES in the MOVIES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🎥🎬
7 years
Ok, let's put early feels out: Plz RT (not like) if you'd be willing to contribute £5 to buy upload/broadcast rights to DRAGON HAS TWO TONGUES for the people of Wales for 5 years. 28k people giving £5 gets it online, in schools and big publicity. Nick 👍
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Planet magazine
5 years
*New issue alert* 📢 The first batch of Planets should be winging its way to our subscribers - listen out for the thud on your doormat... Many thanks to our packing volunteer for your help! @GLRoderick
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Planet magazine
6 years
New on Planet Extra: An independent Wales must undo the darkness of white supremacy by Yasmin Begum @punkistani93
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Planet magazine
7 years
Planet Extra: Ned Thomas on what yesterday's violent oppression of Catalans tells us about the Spanish constitution
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Planet magazine
3 years
We really recommend this event where our founding editor marks half a century since his The Welsh Extremist was published - the 'little red book' that addressed the Anglophone New Left - arguing why solidarity with the language movement was relevant to their cause... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊
@NLWales
National Library of Wales
3 years
The Welsh Extremist at Fifty 📅3 June ⏰5.00pm As we mark the 50th anniversary since the launch of his influential book Ned Thomas’ talk will reflect on why he chose to publish his essays back in the '70s and how they were received. Tickets here: 🌍
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Planet magazine
1 year
Many thanks to @NationCymru & @ShiptonMartin for this coverage of the open letter to safeguard the future for Welsh magazines and websites in both languages, & highlight working conditions in the sector.
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Nation.Cymru
1 year
Magazines and websites that contribute to the culture of Wales are unable to comply with fair and ethical employment practices because of a lack of public funding, according to an open letter to the Welsh Government ✍ @ShiptonMartin
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Planet magazine
1 year
In the current issue, Nathan Abrams unearths a disappearing history of Jewish culture in north Wales, with exciting plans for how you can visit these sites too...
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Planet magazine
5 years
In the current issue: *England's Cultural Anxiety: Why I Really Moved to Wales* by Steven Lovatt What makes the Welsh independence movement so inclusive & progressive?
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Planet magazine
1 year
Sports writing in Planet, true to sport's place in Welsh culture, has often been a starting point for other questions about culture, politics & more Here's a taste of recent sports writing, from rugby to roller derby, Eddie Butler to Rachel Trezise⚽️🛼🏉
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Planet magazine
2 years
Happy #InternationalWomensDay everyone! ✊ Huge thanks to all our women and non-binary contributors who have written for us over the last 12 months - too many to tag! Writing under a system that's unequal in so many ways can be challenging. Very grateful for your contributions!
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Planet magazine
5 years
Planet the Welsh Internationalist: offering a radical, independent approach to Wales & the world since 1970. Buy it here & read about the new issue here! Here's some covers from nearly 50 years of Planet... 236 cover📸by @nspugh
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Planet magazine
4 years
If you missed our 50th 🎂celebratory event hosted by @NLWales with Mike Parker in conversation with founding editor Ned Thomas & current editor Emily Trahair you can watch it here! Thanks to the wonderful @NLWales for enabling us to celebrate in lockdown
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Planet magazine
5 years
Happy 100th Birthday to one of our most brilliant writers and patrons, Emyr Humphreys! If you are unfamiliar with his work you can find out more below. 🎂
@UniWalesPress
Uni of Wales Press
5 years
Happy 100th Birthday to Emyr Humphreys, described as Wales’s foremost novelist of his generation. To celebrate his birthday why not browse his work by clicking on the link 🎂🎈📚 😃
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Planet magazine
4 years
📢New issue of Planet! Thanks to all our contributors & interviewees, incl. Laura McAllister, @Adamprice , Dan Evans, Rachel Trezise, @AlunDaviesMS , Laura Wainwright, @Seimon_Brooks_ Peter Jingcheng Xu @frclrk @sofywills1989 & more!
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Planet magazine
6 years
Planet the Welsh Internationalist: offering a radical, independent approach to Wales & the world since 1970. You can buy it here and read about the current issue here! Here's a selection of covers from nearly 50 years of Planet...
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Planet magazine
8 months
Huge thanks to all who've contributed. This crowdfunder will relieve pressure to raise 💷elsewhere for redundancy pay & enable the company to go dormant - thereby making a future re-launch more feasible. To contribute/share Diolch yn fawr!
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Planet magazine
7 years
Newyddion trist iawn am farwolaeth Tony Bianchi. Dyn hyfryd, colled mawr i fyd llên. Rhoddodd ysbrydoliaeth enfawr i ddysgwyr Cymraeg hefyd.
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Planet magazine
2 years
📢People of Swansea, Pembrokeshire, Aberystwyth & the borders! Come & listen to @charwilliamsOBE discuss Sugar & Slate with @kbohata , Richard Davies & John Barnie... Many thanks to @parthianbooks for arranging this book tour!
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Planet magazine
10 months
You can support Planet in many ways, e.g. did you know you can buy our books from our website? 📚 A selection of our groundbreaking titles from Wales, Galicia & beyond 👇 incl a book censored by Franco's regime & work by the much-missed #NigelJenkins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍
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Planet magazine
5 years
*Planet update - back to (almost) normal* Dear Planeteers, Last week we had to vacate our offices in the Old College & move them to campus (+ to other places for remote working). But thanks to wonderful volunteers we are now ready to carry on sending out your Planets! 1/3👇
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Planet magazine
1 year
Launched in 1970, we've now reached our 250th issue! Read Helen Sandler's editorial 'Marking a Milestone' to get an insight into a unique history To buy/subscribe @helensandbag
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Planet magazine
2 years
📢*New edition of Sugar & Slate now published* We're delighted to announce that Charlotte Williams' groundbreaking title, originally published by Planet, is again available as a co-publication with Parthian as a Library of Wales title! Pre-orders: 🧵1/3
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