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ANDRES NEUMAN TRANSLATED BY RICHARD GWYN

New Man, Neuman

It’s not known for certain whether it was Jacobo himself, or maybe his father, maybe his grandfather. But Jacobo’s surname, my own surname, came about through trickery.

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Cynan Jones Gives his Adjudication of NWR Flash in the Pen Competition

I was very clear, opening the envelope: no expectations. Let the stories be themselves. Do not guess at what you are going to like; do not decide in advance what you do not want to see...
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An Arts Council Creative Wales Award offered me the opportunity to photograph our industrial coastscape. I've always had an interest in industry, but the project posed the question, what kind of industry exists on our stunning coastline today? I decided to make all of the images at night, using spot lamps to illuminate specific areas... I began at the second Severn Bridge...

17/06/2013

Resist the Pie-Chart. Funding for English Periodicals in Wales

The ‘kitchen table’ scenario whereby our only cultural output in terms of literary magazines is relegated to the extra-curricular activity of a pocket of enthusiasts, is likely to only appeal to a small demographic and it absolutely must not be allowe

11/06/2013

Keeping Up with the Joneses, NWR at Hay Festival 28 May 2013

NWR editor's conversation with Lloyd Jones and Cynan Jones about their novellas' themes of rugby, male identity, mental health breakdown and rubbish fathers.

23/05/2013

NWR 100 Preview 14

NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 14; subscribe now to view the full poem, ‘So’, by Maria Apichella, by securing your copy; reduced subscription package launched this week, save up to 40% on cover price wi

Summer trio

Fiona Sampson’s latest poetry collection, Coleshill, is a powerful, brooding portrait of a landscape both real and imagined. Kittie Belltree reviews. ...more>>>

The UK may have no shortage of home-grown psychopaths but we are rapidly running up a trade deficit in criminologists. Lone maverick investigators are being imported in record numbers and chilly Scandinavia, for the moment, has cornered the market. ...more>>>

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