New Welsh Review 73, Autumn 2006

Editorial:

Wales Through The Looking Glass (Tristan Hughes)

Early on in Mihangel Morgan’s Melog, Dr Jones, its protagonist, makes a very significant literary discovery: Strange things were happening to Dr Jones. To begin with – and who is to say that this was not the starting point? – he had read an article – he could not remember what it was about – by Borges, in which he mentions Zeno of Elea …
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Features

• Double Acts and Distorting Mirrors by Christopher Meredith
  The novelist and poet discusses his translation of Mihangel Morgan's Melog: a book that he describes as 'obsessive in its imagery and patterning' as well as 'crammed with Welsh cultural references' . Literary translation, Meredith discovers, is an intense and interrogative kind of reading.
  
  
• Mr Vogal by Lloyd Jones
  A humourously honest account of how the author came to write his first novel in the form of 'gonzo picaresque', and a meditation on such subjects as Wales, middle age and being a 'blydi mutant'.
  
  
• The Dulling of Ploughshares by Will Atkins
  The former fiction editor of Seren looks at two comic writers of the so-called 'dime thriller': Malcolm Pryce and Jasper Fforde. Are they parodists or pasticheurs, or is their work more about farce and satire?
  
  
• A Writer's Writer by Malcolm Pryce on Robert Sheckley
  
  
  
• Photo / Poem Collaboration by David Hurn and Gwyneth Lewis
  
  
  
• New National Poet for Wales by
  Professor Gwyn Thomas is announced as the next national Poet for Wales.
  
  

Fiction

• The Tide Goes Out by Lloyd Jones
  novel extract
• The King of The Forest by Tiffany Murray
  
• Caught in the Loop by Claudia Rapport
  

Poems

Poems by :
Sophie Hannah
Oliver Reynolds
Lynne Rees
Matt Bryden

Cardiff International Poetry Competition
John Goodby
Candy Neubert

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.

• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
  Published by Virago
  ISBN 1844082466  hb £16.99
  Reviewed by Stevie Davies
  
  
• The Burning Ashes of Time: from Steamer Point to Tiger Bay by Patricia Aithie
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 185411400X  pb £9.99
  Reviewed by Charlotte Williams
  
  
• Running Late by Dannie Abse
  Published by Hutchinson
  ISBN 0091796970  pb £9.99
  Reviewed by Anna Kiernan
  
  
• Celtic Radicals Series: Volume 3. David Lloyd George by Emyr Price
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 070832004X  hb £55.00
  Reviewed by Lemit Opik
  
  
• District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
  Published by Faber
  ISBN 0571230962  hb £12.99
  Reviewed by Tony Curtis
  
  
• When I Grow Up by Bernice Rubens
  Published by Little, Brown
  ISBN 0316731277  hb £17.99
  Reviewed by Ruth Joseph
  
  
• Sardines and Other Poems by Stephen Knight
  Published by Young Picador
  ISBN 0330413562  pb £4.99
  Reviewed by Zoe Skoulding
  
  
• A Cracked Prism by Lorna Catriona Lloyd
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 1902638719  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Zoe Skoulding
  
  
• The Painter's Quarry. The art of Peter Prendergast by various
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854114093  hb £25.00
  Reviewed by Gareth Davies
  
  
• Writers of Wales: R.S. Thomas by Tony Brown
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 0708318002  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by M. Wynn Thomas
  
  
• Rifling Paradise by Jem Poster
  Published by Sceptre
  ISBN 0340822945  hb £12.99
  Reviewed by Sarah Wood
  
  

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