Contents

1

My Family in a Human Pyramid

Evel Knievel Jumps Over my Family

Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren in Crumlin for the Filming of Arabesque, June 1965

The Voice in which my Mother Read to Me

The Death of Doc Emmett Brown in Back to the Future

Half-time, Wales vs. Germany, Cardiff Arms Park, 1991

How to Renovate a Morris Minor

Bamp

Building my Grandfather

Lance Corporal Arthur Edwards (1900-1916)

My Uncle Walks to Work, 1962

2

Anatomy

View of Valleys Village from a Hill

View of Valleys High Street through a Café Window

Colliery Row

USA Family Kebab House, Merthyr Tydfil

Owen Jones

Raskolnikov in Ebbw Vale

X16

Chartist Mural, John Frost Square, Newport

Capel Celyn

In John F Kennedy International Airport

FA Cup Winners on Open Top Bus Tour of my Village

3

Girl

Welsh National Costume

Us

The Doll

Decree Nisi

Jack-in-the-Box

The Bloke in the Coffee Shop

Aquafit

4

Bookcase Thrown through Third Floor Window

Restaurant where I am the Maître d’ and the Chef is my Unconscious

Rilke at War

Seal

The Hippo

Flamingos

Cheerleaders

Bouncers

Nun on a Bicycle

The Bloke Selling Talk Talk in the Arcade

Starbucks Name Tag Says Rhian

The Girls on the Make-up Counter

Karaoke

Brothers

The Boy with the Pump-action Water Pistol

The Performance

Holiday

On the Overpass

Acknowledgements