Stephen Fisk is a retired clinical psychologist. For most of his career he worked in the mental health service in the Bridgend area. Since retiring, Stephen has been a school governor at Willows High School, and a volunteer adviser with Cardiff Citizens Advice Bureau. He has done advocacy work with Advocacy Matters and the Huggard Centre. He has acquired four grandchildren, and runs the website Abandoned Communities. As Stephen lives close to the Wales Millennium Centre, he has tried hard to gain an appreciation of opera. He has had to admit failure, retaining a strong preference for the songs and chamber music of Schubert.

Songs in the work of Gwyn Thomas

Gwyn Thomas is now rightly revered as one of Wales’ finest writers. But there are themes other than relentless, lyrical humour going on in his work

Time to stop living by the sword

Cosmeston medieval village is a unique, archaeological jewel. Yet the visitor experience is being undone by a combination of inaccuracies and a glorification of warfare

A sense of loss and sorrow that is only Welsh

Hiraeth is a uniquely Welsh word born out of uniquely Welsh experiences. Is that why it cannot be translated to English?