New Welsh Review 51, Winter 2000

Editorial:

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Features

• Our very old friend the Labour Party by Peter Stead
  A look back on the Labour Party in Wales over the past 100 years.
  
  
• A strident polemic for pragmatism by Ted Parry
  Ted Parry is less than impressed by a new history of the Labour Party in Wales during its first 100 years.
  
  
• Gwaliadownunda by Jon Gower
  Profile of Welsh poet-in-exile-in-Australia Bryn Griffiths.
  
  
• Bitter-sweet experience of being a Welsh soccer fan by Dafydd Wigley
  On Welsh soccer greats.
  
  
• Travels with a Harley (part II) by Jim Perrin
  In America - from ghost towns and biker chicks to ocean boulevards.
  
  
• Eight ways of looking at Welsh Writing in English by John Goodby
  A review of the latest Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, with a look at the critical advances of the last thirty years.
  
  
• Remembering R.S. Thomas by John Pikoulis
  A look back on Thomas's immense, uncompromising achievement as a poet over more than 50 years.
  
  
• The Child and the Whiteness by Rowan Williams
  The Archbishop of Wales on why Thomas is practically the only late 20th Century religious poet to retain some moral and imaginative credibility.
  
  
• Plain speaking and tenderness: a lyric priest's abiding heritage by Emyr Humphreys
  On R.S. Thomas the man, and their long years of friendship.
  
  
• A great religious poet of the Calvinist sublime by M. Wynn Thomas
  Remembering the R.S. Thomas's capacity to disconcert expectation.
  
  
• Sounds and Silence by Tony Brown
  On the poet's voice
  
  
• Existential loneliness and luminous resolution by Barbara Prys-Williams
  Recalling R.S. Thomas's brave autobiography.
  
  

Fiction

• Residue by Gee Williams
  
• Process by Duncan Salisbury
  
• The Swing by Carole Morgan Hopkin
  
• In the Hour-Glass by Michael Spindler
  

Poems

Poems by :
Glenda Beagan
J. Brookes
Phil Carradice
Peter Finch
Anthony Foakes
Kate Gardiner
John Greening
Peter Gruffydd
Jeremy Hooker
Dilys Jones
John Idris Jones
Mike Jenkins
Olivia Anna Jose
Dennis Lewis
Sue Moules
Sheenagh Pugh
Lynne Rees
Robert Saxton
James Sutherland-Smith
Victor Tapner
John Whitworth
Anna Wigley
John Stuart Williams

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.

• Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
  Published by Fourth Estate
  ISBN   281pp £15.99
  Reviewed by Barbara Prys-Williams
  
  
• The Best of Friends by Emyr Humphreys
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   £7.99
  Reviewed by Kirsti Bohata
  
  
• Salt of the Earth by Emyr Humphreys
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   £7.99
  Reviewed by Kirsti Bohata
  
  
• An Absolute Hero by Emyr Humphreys
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   £7.99
  Reviewed by Kirsti Bohata
  
  
• Magic and other Deceptions by Gee Williams
  Published by Gee
  ISBN   109pp £6.50
  Reviewed by Stevie Davies
  
  
• From the Life and other stories by Sian Preece
  Published by Polygon
  ISBN   152pp £8.99
  Reviewed by Stevie Davies
  
  
• Cardiff Dead by John Williams
  Published by Bloomsbury
  ISBN   241pp £9.99
  Reviewed by Herbert Williams
  
  
• Infidelity by Paul Ferris
  Published by HarperCollins
  ISBN   266pp £5.99
  Reviewed by Herbert Williams
  
  
• On the Bright Road by Paddy Figgis
  Published by Marion Boyars
  ISBN   256pp £8.99
  Reviewed by Herbert Williams
  
  
• The Welsh Language and the 1891 Census by Gwenfair Parry and Mari A. Williams
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   488pp £15.99
  Reviewed by Gareth H Williams
  
  
• The Welsh Language and its Social Domains, 1801-1911 by Geraint H. Jenkins (Ed.)
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   629pp £19.99
  Reviewed by Gareth H Williams
  
  
• Language, Economy and Society: the Changing Fortunes of the Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century by John Aitchison and Harold Carter
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   161pp £15.99
  Reviewed by Gareth H Williams
  
  
• Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition by Jane Shaw and Alan Kreider (Eds.)
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   pb £14.99
  Reviewed by Robert Pope
  
  
• A Time, A Place by Graham Allen
  Published by Swansea Poetry Workshop
  ISBN   44pp £5
  Reviewed by Victor Golightly
  
  
• Elsewhere: New and Selected Poems by Stewart Brown
  Published by Peepal Tree Press
  ISBN   118pp £7.99
  Reviewed by Victor Golightly
  
  
• Night Lines by Julie Rainsbury
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN   70pp £4.95
  Reviewed by Victor Golightly
  
  
• Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters (New Edition) by Paul Ferris (Ed.)
  Published by J.M. Dent
  ISBN   1062pp £50
  Reviewed by John Idris Jones
  
  
• Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne by James A Davies
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN   132pp £6.99
  Reviewed by John Idris Jones
  
  
• The Literary Pilgrim in Wales by Meic Stephens
  Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
  ISBN   £6
  Reviewed by Dewi Roberts
  
  
• Offerings + Re-inventions / Offrymau + Ailddyfeisiadau by Iwan Bala
  Published by Seren
  ISBN   96pp £9.95
  Reviewed by Ozi Rhys Osmond
  
  

Letters

• Dylan Thomas and Laugharne - Rt. Hon Denzil Davies MP
• Wales's Designer Democracy - Leighton Andrews
• Theatre Criticism in Wales - David Adams