New Welsh Review 80, Summer 2008

Editorial:

Back to the Present (Francesca Rhydderch)

The photographs by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne that feature in this issue of New Welsh Review serve as a stark reminder of how the present becomes past, and of what happens if those of us who are in one way or another keepers of our histories abandon the notion of posterity. The images published here are drawn from a larger series, which has been exhibited in London and Wales; they include a variety of domestic interiors and exteriors, and an extensive series of chapel images. What is compelling about them is the beating heart underneath the ‘still lives’ that you first assume them to be.
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Features

• Theatres of Memory by Andrew Green
  The Librarian of the National Library of Wales, puts the recent digitisation debate into a broader historical context.
  
  
• One Hundred Welsh Poets by Alan Riach
  Alan Riach considers the recently published Poetry 1900-2000: One hundred poets from Wales edited by Meic Stephens, which raises ‘questions about how to identify and describe the variety that constitutes a national tradition, what its relations are with contemporary developments’.
  
  
• A Female Tradition by Kirsti Bohata
  Kirsti Bohata considers three recent publications from Jane Aaron, Katie Gramich and Ursula Masson that offer a feminist perspective on the Anglo-Welsh canon, and which mark ‘an important turing point in the field’; they have ‘demonstrated beyond question that Welsh women could and did write’.
  
  
• Celestial Ram, Holy Lamb by Imogen Rhia Herrad
  The author traces a cultural history of sheep.
  
  
• Photo / Poem Collaboration by David Hurn and Kathryn Simmonds
  
  
  
• A Writer's History by D.J. Britton
  
  
  
• Abandoned by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne
  
  
  

Fiction

• Water Lion by Penny Simpson
  
• Brown by LLoyd Jones
  

Poems

Poems by :
Matt Bryden
Viki Holmes
Anna Lewis
Oliver Reynolds
Gregory Warren Wilson
Tamar Yoseloff

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.

• Swansea Terminal by Robert Lewis
  Published by Serpent's Tail
  ISBN 9781852429751  PB £7.99
  Reviewed by Anthony Brockway
  
  
• At Arm's Length by Geraint Talfan Davies
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 9781854114365  PB £12.99
  Reviewed by Peter Stead
  
  
• A Suite for Summer by John Freeman
  Published by Worple
  ISBN 9781905208104  PB £10.00
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• Walking on Waste by Mike Jenkins
  Published by Gwasg Garreg Gwalch
  ISBN 9781845271473  PB £7.50
  Reviewed by Matthew Jarvis
  
  
• Sea Holly by Robert Minhinnick
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 9781854114358  PB £7.99
  Reviewed by Anna Scott
  
  
• Welsh Furniture 1250 - 1950 by Richard Bebb
  Published by Saer Books
  ISBN 9780955377310  HB £150.00
  Reviewed by William Linnard
  
  
• Liminal by Chris Keil
  Published by Alcemi
  ISBN 9780955527210  PB £9.99
  Reviewed by Suzy Ceulan Hughes
  
  
• Salvage by Gee Williams
  Published by Alcemi
  ISBN 9780955527203  PB £9.99
  Reviewed by Suzy Ceulan Hughes
  
  
• The Secret by Zoë Brigley
  Published by Bloodaxe
  ISBN 9781852247874  PB £8.95
  Reviewed by Wayne Thomas
  
  
• Going Under by Ray French
  Published by Vintage
  ISBN 9780099455349  PB £7.99
  Reviewed by Cathryn Scott
  
  
• Auschwitz by Angela Morgan Cutler
  Published by Two Ravens Press
  ISBN 9781906120184  PB £9.99
  Reviewed by Kate North
  
  

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