New Welsh Review 68, Summer 2005

Editorial:

'Tell me all the other versions' (Francesca Rhydderch)

The shortlist selection made by judges Tony Brown, Patrick Hannan and Charlotte Williams this year has brought a particularly interesting trio of books to the final stage of the Book of the Year competition.
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Features

• ‘Thinkers out of Place’ by Kathryn Gray
  Tom Paulin – poet, writer and critic – in conversation with Kathryn Gray - shortlisted for the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize – discussing literary influences and issues of cultural identity.
  
  
• Poetry at the Checkpoint by Patrick McGuinness
  Patrick McGuinness re-evaluates the work of John Tripp – ‘a sort of Anglo-Welsh Larkin?’ – in the broader context of Welsh poetry in English.
  
  
• From Mametz Wood to Ditchling Common by Robert J. Yates
  Robert Yates challenges the continued obscurity of David Jones in the English canon - a genius unknown, misunderstood and misrepresented.
  
  
• Welsh Literature from a European Perspective by Diarmuid Johnson
  Poet, translator and editor of Transcript, Diarmuid Johnson, considers perspectives on Wales and Welsh literature offered by the literary translation programmes run by Welsh Literature Abroad.
  
  

Fiction

• The Fisherman in my Bed by Mary-Ann Constantine
  
• Frog Boy by Jo Mazelis
  
• Chickens by Rachel Trezise
  

Poems

Poems by :
Charles Bennett
Melanie Challenger
Claire Crowther
Jasmine Donahaye
Carrie Etter
Christine Evans
Jacob Polley
Michael Ponsford
John Redmond
Greta Stoddart
Ifor Thomas
Jeni Williams
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Reviews

The majority of books reviewed in New Welsh Review can be bought online from gwales.com, the Welsh Books Council's online bookshop, by simply clicking on the 'buy now' icon. For any that are unavailable, please contact the publishers or ask in your local bookshop. All details were correct at the time of publication.

• Quiver by Deryn Rees-Jones
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113542  pb £9.99
  Reviewed by Tiffany Atkinson
  
  
• Speak for England by James Hawes
  Published by Cape
  ISBN 0224073028  hb £12.99
  Reviewed by Tristan Hughes
  
  
• The Wales TUC 1974-2004: Devolution and Industrial Politics by Jo England
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 070831919X  pb £12.99
  Reviewed by Tristan Hughes
  
  
• Selected Poems by Christine Evans
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113348  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Kathryn Gray
  
  
• The Canals of Mars by Patrick McGuinness
  Published by Carcarnet
  ISBN 1857547721  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Kelly Grovier
  
  
• The Land as Viewed from the Sea by Richard Collins
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113674  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• Singing in Chains: Listening to Welsh Verse by Mererid Hopwood
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN 1843234025  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
  
  
• Wales Half Welsh by John Williams
  Published by Bloomsbury
  ISBN 0747566062  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Kate North
  
  
• The Mirror Trade by Zoë Skoulding
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113666  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Carrie Etter
  
  
• Mappa Mundi by Philip Gross
  Published by Bloodaxe
  ISBN 1852246227  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Andrew Neilson
  
  
• Landsker by Brenda Squires
  Published by Starborn
  ISBN 1899530169  pb £9.99
  Reviewed by Nigel Rodenhurst
  
  
• An Eye of Death by George Rees
  Published by Accent
  ISBN 0954709276  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Nigel Rodenhurst
  
  

Letters

• A Hundred Years of Fiction - Dai Smith, John Pikoulis
• Mervyn Levy - Jasmine Donahaye