Retracing Wales

A series of pieces responding to the Wales Coast Path

Rhos Point to Pen y Gogarth

The Songlines of Home

by Charlotte Williams

Charlotte Williams, the daughter of a Welsh mother and Guyanese father, was brought up in Llandudno and now lives in Australia. From this faraway country she finds a way of reconciling her feelings towards the Welsh landscape.

Off-country, as the Aboriginal people say, displaced in this faraway place; my home, like a place I once read in letters with love, now abbreviates its hugs and kisses: xoxo.

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