New Welsh Review 74, Winter

Editorial:

Writing on the Land (Patrick McGuinness and Matthew Jarvis)

‘What do bird-watchers, rock-climbers, walkers, shooters, botanists, offroad 4WD enthusiasts, farmers, parapentists, drag-hunters, mountainbikers, canoeists and anglers have in common other than demands on the same overtaxed natural resource of land?’, asks Jim Perrin in his essay in this issue of New Welsh Review. We all make our demands upon the land, and in an increasingly atomised world, this is a striking and important constant: we all remain, in one way or another, animals upon it.
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Features

• Land and Freedom by Jim Perrin
  Jim Perrin discusses land and politics in terms of Welsh writing: ‘what does that moral and spiritual responsibility for representing this complex physical and cultural entity, which is ‘the land’, entail?’
  
  
• Touch the Snake by John Barnie
  John Barnie considers eco-criticism and how it is based on the premise that the right kind of literature can help relign our imagination towards a biocentric understanding of the world.
  
  
• Now You See Her? by Alice Entwistle
  Alice Entwistle on the 20th-century woman poet in the light of two books from Deryn Rees Jones: Modern Women Poets and Consorting with Angels: essays on Modern Women Poets. Both make a sharp and sustained contribution to the subject.
  
  
• Surface Tensions by Cary Archard
  Cary Archard profiles Paul Burston, a writer and journalist who tries to resist reducing identity to simple categories and who believes that identity is too complex to be defined by sex, gender or birthplace.
  
  
• A Writer's Writer by Patricia Duncker on George Eliot
  
  
  
• Photo / Poem Collaboration by David Hurn and John Fuller
  
  
  
• Time and Tide by Ceri Thomas and Andrew McNeillie
  Remembering Sir Kyffin Williams
  
  

Fiction

• A Boat Trip by Richard Gwyn
  Fiction extract
• El Zorro by Robert Minhinnick
  Fiction extract

Poems

Poems by :
Tim Liardet
Michael Longley
John Redmond
Zoe Skoulding
Carmine Starnino
Samantha Wynne-Rydderch

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.

• Growth Rings by Christine Evans
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854114026  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Matthew Jarvis
  
  
• Burning the Candle by Christine Evans
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN 1843236761  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Matthew Jarvis
  
  
• Gwynfor: Rhag Pob Brad by Rhys Evans
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN 0862437954  hb £24.95
  Reviewed by Gwenllian Lansdown
  
  
• Send My Cold Bones Home by Tristan Hughes
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 190263876X  pb £9.99
  Reviewed by Anthony Brockway
  
  
• Miss Webster and Cherif by Patricia Duncker
  Published by Bloomsbury
  ISBN 0747582777  pb £12.99
  Reviewed by Niall Griffiths
  
  
• The Sea Cabinet by Catriona O'Reilly
  Published by Bloodaxe
  ISBN 1852247053  pb £7.95
  Reviewed by Jeni Williams
  
  
• Hotel Gwales by Nigel Jenkins
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN 184323663X  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Ian McMillan
  
  
• Overland by Richard Collins
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854114204  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Sarah Broughton
  
  
• Overland by Richard Collins
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854114204  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Sarah Broughton
  
  
• Return / Yn Ol by Rhodri Jones
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854114190  hb £20.00
  Reviewed by Peter Lord
  
  
• Sea Lilies: Selected Poems by John Barnie
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854114131  pb £9.99
  Reviewed by Lyndon Davies
  
  

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