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  1. SWANSEA: American sandwich chain Which Wich lines up first city-centre outlet

    A US sandwich chain with more than 300 outlets worldwide is lining up its first Swansea site, in the heart of the city centre.

    Which Wich, the Dallas-based “Superior Sandwiches” brand, wants to move into a unit on Whitewalls — the pedestrian street linking Oxford Street and the Quadrant, a few doors from Marks & Spencer, Primark and Costa.

    A planning application lodged with Swansea Council seeks to change the use of Unit 2 at No. 5 Whitewalls from a retail shop to a food and drink use, described in the plans as a “snack bar-café”.

    Drawings submitted with the application show a servery with order screens, a sandwich-prep counter, a coffee and shakes station, an internal seating area and external café seating out front.

    The plans, drawn up by a Swansea-based design firm for applicant Mr S Lewis, note that signage will be the subject of a separate advertisement consent application later.

    If approved, it would be the chain’s first outlet in Swansea — and only its second in a Welsh city.

    Which Wich entered Wales in January with a site at Cardiff’s St David’s shopping centre, with a second Cardiff location at Central Square also in the pipeline.

    The brand has been expanding rapidly across the UK through a master-franchise model, with deals signed for London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

    When the chain announced its UK growth push in April, its UK master franchisee Rami Awada said the company was seeing strong demand for what he called a “high-quality, customizable offer” across multiple regions.

    The Swansea plans lean on the same formula: a build-your-own sandwich menu, paired with coffee and shakes, aimed at lunchtime and grab-and-go trade in a high-footfall spot.

    It is the latest big-name arrival to eye the city centre, following the fried-chicken chain Popeyes, which drew queues of up to 18 hours when it opened in the former Topshop building last October.

    The new café would also bring fresh life to a Whitewalls unit at a time when the wider city centre has seen some well-known names depart, including Marks & Spencer’s Oxford Street store, which closed after 69 years.

    The change-of-use application is now with council planners, who will decide whether the conversion can go ahead.

    Swansea Bay News has approached Which Wich for comment.

    Related stories from Swansea Bay News

    18-hour queues as Popeyes opens in Swansea
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    A city-centre landmark shuts its doors after almost seven decades.

    New card and gift shop to open in the Quadrant
    Another new arrival for the city-centre retail core.

    #AmericanFastFood #foodDrink #planning #planningApplication #restaurantOpening #retail #sandwich #Swansea #SwanseaCityCentre #WhichWich #whitewalls
  2. SWANSEA: Primark marks 50 years in Wales — with the city’s store among its first in the country

    Primark is marking 50 years in Wales, and the Swansea store has been part of the story almost from the beginning.

    The retailer opened its first Welsh store in Newport in May 1976, and Swansea followed two years later in November 1978 — making it only the second Primark in Wales.

    The Swansea store opened on St Mary’s Square, where it remains today.

    Primark in Swansea City Centre

    To mark the anniversary, the chain has installed commemorative window displays in three of its Welsh stores — in Cardiff, Wrexham and Newport.

    The Newport store, on Commercial Street, opened as just the fifth Primark in Great Britain, making Wales one of the first places in the country to welcome the retailer.

    It remains on the same site today and, at 15,400 sq ft, is still the smallest Primark in Wales.

    Cardiff opened in 1981 and has since moved twice. At 87,000 sq ft it is now the largest Primark in the country.

    The retailer now has eight stores in Wales, including one at Trostre Retail Park in Llanelli, which opened in 2017.

    Primark in Llanelli’s Parc Trostre

    Across Wales, Primark covers more than 300,000 sq ft of retail space and employs over 1,100 staff.

    The company said 174 of its Welsh colleagues had worked for the retailer for 10 years or more.

    Kari Rodgers, UK retail director at Primark, said Welsh high streets had changed enormously over the past five decades.

    “The demand for great quality and affordable fashion and essentials is just as strong as it was when we first opened our doors,” she said.

    “We’re proud to be part of the community of Wales, providing employment and career opportunities as well as playing an active part in the localities we serve.”

    The retailer said its Welsh stores had raised more than £1 million for charity through its carrier bag charge, including donations to the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital charity and the Wales Air Ambulance.

    Primark was founded in Ireland in 1969 and now has more than 480 stores across 19 countries.

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    #Business #Llanelli #ParcTrostre #Primark #retail #StMarySSquare #Swansea #SwanseaCityCentre #TrostreRetailPark #whitewalls
  3. “after words: visual and experimental poetry in little mags and small presses, 1960-2025”: exhibition and book

    After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025, (catalogue and exhibition), Curated by Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh of Granary Press, The Grolier Club, New York, NY, April 23 – July 26, 2025
    [from garadinervi & Granary Books]

    Clay, Steve and M.C. Kinniburgh:

    AFTER WORDS: VISUAL AND EXPERIMENTAL POETRY IN LITTLE MAGAZINES AND SMALL PRESSES, 1960–2025

    Granary Books, 2025. Item #3913

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    10.75 x 8.25 in., 232 pp. smyth-sewn in wrappers. Printed full color.

    This book offers a visual and thematic journey through avant-garde, concrete, visual, and experimental poetics as they appeared in ephemeral little magazines and small press publications from the 1960s onward. This book serves as an exhibition catalog for After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960–2025 from April 23rd to July 26, 2025, at The Grolier Club exhibition in New York City. [«The exhibition presents a wide range of international works with approximately 150 publications, including Assembling, Kontexts, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., blewointment, Rhinozeros, The Marrahwanna Quarterly, Granary Books, Something Else Press, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Ou, and Stereo Headphones. Poets presented include Cecilia Vicuña, bpNichol, Johanna Drucker, Tom Phillips, Emily McVarish, d.a. levy, Mirtha Dermisache, and Philip Gallo among many others»]

    Small presses include: 7 Flowers Press, Agentzia, Anabasis, Asylum’s Press, Ayizan Press, Beach Books Texts & Documents, Beau Geste Press, blewointmentpress, Burning Press, C Press, Chax Press, Coach House Press, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Edizioni Geiger, Expanded Media Editions, Fleye Press, Goliard Press, Grabhorn-Hoyem, Granary Books, Druckwerk, Hawk’s Well Press, Heiner Friedrich, The Hermetic Press, Hermetic Gallery, John Martin, Joseph Melzer Verlag, Kickshaws, Kontexts Publications, Letter Edged in Black Press, Luna Bisonte Productions, Membrane Press, Milano: East 128, New Wilderness Foundation, Nietzsche’s Brolly, Nova News, Open Book, Openings Press, PANic Press, Phenomenon Press, Poltroon Press, Renegade Press, Roaring Fork Press, Scorribanda Productions, Seedorn Verlag, Seripress, Siglio Press, Station Hill, Tarasque Press, Tetrad Press, Visual Poetry Workshop National Poetry Society of London, Wild Hawthorn Press, and Xexoxial Editions.

    Little magazines include: “before your very eyes!”, A: An Envelope Magazine of Visual Poetry, Abracadabra, Alcheringa, Anti-Isolation, Approches, AQ, Assembling, Blank Tape, Bulletin From Nothing, Cenizas, Diagonal Cero, E pod, Fruit Cup, Ganglia, Geiger, Gnaoua, Industrial Sabotage, Interstate, Journeyman, Kaldron, Klacto 23, Kontakte, Kontexts, Kroklok, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Libellus, Life Begins with Love, Lines, Lost and Found Times, Lost Paper, Mini, New Wilderness Letter, Pages, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., Rawz, Revue OU, Rhinozeros, Sammelband Futura, Schmuck, Shi Shi: Concrete & Visual Poetry, Signal, Soft Need, Sondern, Spanish Fleye, Stereo Headphones, Taproot Reviews, The Acts: The Shelf Life, The Difficulties, The Improbable, The Insect Trust Gazette, The Marrahwanna Quarterly, The San Francisco Earthquake, The Subtle Journal of Raw Coinage, Toothpick Lisbon & the Orcas Islands, Unarmed: Adventurous Poetry Journal, UNI/vers(;), WhiteWalls, Xerolage, and xtant.

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