New Welsh Review 69, Autumn 2005

Editorial:

New Pastoral (Francesca Rhydderch)

Wales has been enjoying the success of its urban noir writers – Niall Griffiths, John Williams, Malcolm Pryce et al – for quite some time. Our literary culture in English has certainly become more discerning as a result of the broadening out of the critical reception of Welsh books beyond periodicals such as New Welsh Review to newspapers with high circulation figures across the UK.
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Features

• Fugitive Presences and Malevolent Landscapes by Niall Griffiths
  An exploration of the work of Paul Seawright, who says he is drawn by the 'generic terror of the empty landscape'.
  
  
• Walking the Line by Duncan Campbell
  Duncan Campbell considers the influence of psychogeography on recent books by Peter Finch, Lloyd Jones and Martin Bax, and looks at the specifically Welsh aspects of this increasingly popular genre.
  
  
• From Yoknapatawpha to Ynys Mon by Tristan Hughes
  Tristan Hughes considers the tensions between 'urban' and 'rural' writing in Wales, especially the stereotypes that these labels themselves convey, and the linguistic, cultural and geographic divides they confirm.
  
  
• 'Something intimately known' by Sarah Broughton
  Sarah Broughton considers three debut novelists: Carole Cadwalladr, Richard Collins and Susan Fletcher.
  
  
• 'Psycho-colonialism' Revisited by Kirsti Bohata
  The author of Postcolonialism Revisited intervenes in the debate on postcolonial criticism in Wales, arguing that, while solid historical foundations are crucial to any argument in this context, literary criticism needs to pay sufficient attention to asthetic as well as historical issues.
  
  

Fiction

• Whinberries by Deborah Kay Davies
  
• High Water Everywhere by Tristan Hughes
  
• The Shop by Emyr Humphreys
  A chapter from a new novel

Poems

Poems by :
John Barnie
Tony Conran
Tony Curtis
Viki Holmes
Paul Henry
Anne Rouse

Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2005 winners
Linda Rogers
Robert Butler
Gareth Jones

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.

• Collected Poems by David Constantine
  Published by Bloodaxe
  ISBN 1852246677  pb £12.00
  Reviewed by Jem Poster
  
  
• A Living Language by David Constantine
  Published by Bloodaxe
  ISBN 185224688X  pb £7.95
  Reviewed by Jem Poster
  
  
• The Last Llanelli Train by Robert Lewis
  Published by Serpent's Tail
  ISBN 1852428902  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Andrew Neilson
  
  
• Eunice Fleet by Lily Tobias, (Ed) Jasmine Donahaye
  Published by Honno
  ISBN 1870206657  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Claire Flay
  
  
• The Wooden Doctor by Margiad Evans
  Published by Honno
  ISBN 1870206681  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Claire Flay
  
  
• Postcolonialism Revisited by Kirsti Bohata
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 0708318924  pb £14.99
  Reviewed by Harri Roberts
  
  
• Twentieth-Century Autobiography by Barbara Prys-Williams
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 0708318916  pb £14.99
  Reviewed by Barbara Hardy
  
  
• The Distance Between Us by Fiona Sampson
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113976  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Matthew Jarvis
  
  
• Wreckage by Niall Griffiths
  Published by Cape
  ISBN 022407122X  pb £10.99
  Reviewed by Andy Elliott
  
  
• Welsh Politics Comes of Age: Responses to the Richard Commission by John Osmond (Ed)
  Published by Institute of Welsh Affairs
  ISBN 1871726379  pb £14.99
  Reviewed by Emily Charette
  
  
• Red Stilletos by Ruth Joseph
  Published by Accent Press
  ISBN 0954489977  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Carrie Jadud
  
  
• Kung Fu Lullabies by Chris Kinsey
  Published by Ragged Raven Poetry
  ISBN 0954239776  pb £7.00
  Reviewed by Ian Gregson
  
  
• High June by Ann Byrne-Sutton
  Published by Starborn Books
  ISBN 1899530088  pb £5.00
  Reviewed by Ian Gregson
  
  
• The Language of Flight by Mike Jenkins
  Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
  ISBN 0863818897  pb £6.00
  Reviewed by John Pikoulis
  
  
• Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Texts by Alyce von Rothkirch and Daniel Williams (Eds)
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 070831886X  hb £25.00
  Reviewed by Victor Golightly
  
  
• The Origami Bird by Elizabeth Ashworth
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 1902638255  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Emma Davies
  
  
• Fire and Water by Hayley Long
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 1902638522  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Emma Davies
  
  
• Summer Shadows by Siân James
  Published by Honno
  ISBN 1870206649  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Emma Davies
  
  
• Love and War by Siân James
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113585  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Emma Davies
  
  

Letters

• A Hundred Years of Fiction - Leighton Andrews
• Mervyn Levy and Dylan Thomas - Andrew Lycett
• Obituary: Joan Abse, 1926-2005 - Cary Archard