New Welsh Review 59, Spring 2003

Editorial:

Imaginative Landscapes (Francesca Rhydderch)

My sentimental attachment to the books of my childhood has, I admit it, as much to do with the memories of my young, unformed self as it does with anything else. Up until a couple of months ago, I jealously guarded any and every book I had ever owned, even those small Enid Blyton paperbacks about boarding-school girls who inhabited a world far removed from mine. Years later, when they had fallen to pieces after one re-reading too many, still I kept them. Sometimes I would pull a sellotaped favourite down off the shelf and marvel at the orangey-brown tinge taken on by the paper in the intervening twenty-odd years. Who was I when I read these, I wondered? What was I about?
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Features

• The Liminal Zone of the Road by Duncan Campbell
  Duncan Campbell takes a trip along the M25 with Iain Sinclair's London Orbital.
  
  
• Left Historic by Dai Smith
  An article looking at the life and work of Eric Hobsbawm from the perspective of Wales.
  
  
• The Lingering Influence of Childhood Migrations by Sarah Broughton
  Sarah Broughton talks to the award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell about her work and her life as a writer.
  
  
• High Time by Shelagh Hourahane
  A consideration of the recent boom in visual arts publishing in Wales.
  
  
• A Writer's Diary by Sheenagh Pugh
  On writing prose, finding a publisher and being shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.
  
  
• Bookmark by Amanda Hopkinson
  Finding space at home for 14,000 books.
  
  

Fiction

• Resolution by Roger Granelli
  Novel Extract
• Boxes by Lynne Rees
  
• The Way Things Are by Craig Osborne
  
• Drowning by Ruth M. Harris
  

Poems

Poems by :
Carrie Etter
Joyce Herbert
Sheenagh Pugh
Lloyd Robson
Anna Wigley

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.

• Diving Girls by Jo Mazelis
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Kirsti Bohata
  
  
• White Powder, Green Light by James Hawes
  Published by Cape
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £10.99
  Reviewed by Sean Burke
  
  
• The Dylan Thomas Murders by David N. Thomas
  Published by Seren
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Paul Ferris
  
  
• Real Cardiff by Peter Finch
  Published by Seren
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £9.95
  Reviewed by Grahame Davies
  
  
• The Slipped Leash by Paul Henry
  Published by Seren
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Nathalie Wourm
  
  
• Travelling to the Fish Orchards by Robert Seatter
  Published by Seren
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Ivan Phillips
  
  
• Weak Eros by David Greenslade
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Ivan Phillips
  
  
• The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias by Sam Adams (Ed)
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN No ISBN available  hb £30.00
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• Adamah by Jeremy Hooker
  Published by Enitharmon
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £8.95
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• James Kitchener Davies: detholiad o'i waith by Manon Rhys and M.Wynn Thomas (Eds)
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £14.99
  Reviewed by Katie Gramich
  
  
• James Kitchener Davies by M. Wynn Thomas
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £5.99
  Reviewed by Katie Gamich
  
  
• I Know Another Way: From Tintern to St Davids by Jon Gower (Ed)
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £9.95
  Reviewed by Peter Finch
  
  
• Pilgimage: A Welsh Perspective by Terry John and Nona Rees
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £14.95
  Reviewed by Rowan O'Neill
  
  
• Nine Lives by Bernice Rubens
  Published by Little, Brown
  ISBN No ISBN available  hb £16.99
  Reviewed by Tony Padfield
  
  
• Middleman by Bill James
  Published by The Do Not Press
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Tony Padfield
  
  
• House of Angels by Brian John
  Published by Greencroft Books
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• The French Thing by Chris Keil
  Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £7.50
  Reviewed by Tony Padfield
  
  
• Punters by Herbert Williams
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Tony Padfield
  
  
• The Holding Ground by Angela Morton
  Published by The Collective Press
  ISBN No ISBN available  pb £6.50
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  

Letters

• T.H. Jones: Poet of Exile (University of Wales Press) - P. Bernard Jones and Don Dale-Jones