New Welsh Review 60, Summer 2003

Editorial:

War Archives (Francesca Rhydderch)

the madman and the statue stare at the blackened flags, the scattered bits, the empty space and nothing has ever been so still as this: the figures that could be bits of wall the blistered walls that could be live and puncturing the fret of green and rust the poison rinse of chlorine sky without a wing alive in it without a wing alive.
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Features

• Beyond National Literature? Dylan Thomas and Amos Tutuola in 'Igbo masquerade' by Daniel Williams
  A discussion of the historical and contemporary significance of Dylan Thomas's review of Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952).
  
  
• Blythe Spirits by Dylan Thomas
  A review of Amos Tutuola's The Palm-wine Drinkard (1952).
  
  
• Benton End Remembered by Peter Wakelin
  The career of artist Cedric Morris is considered in the light of two books about his life and work: Benton End Remembered and Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines: Teaching Art and Life.
  
  
• Re-writing Autobiography by Fflur Dafydd
  An interview with Anghared Price, winner of the 2002 Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod, and rising talent of the Welsh academic arena.
  
  
• 'A dictator, a princess and an adman...' by Amanda Hopkinson
  A look at the Independent Foreign Literature Prize: the only British book prize that honours the literary translator on a par with the original author.
  
  
• From Gwredog Isaf to Santorini by Gwilym Prichard and Claudia Willams
  The two artists moved from their home near Caernarfon in 1984 to spend the next seventeen years on the Continent before returning to Wales in 2001. This is an extract from their Continental Diaries and Sketchbooks, being prepared for publication.
  
  

Fiction

• No Two Shoes The Same by A. Ni Mhaonaigh
  
• A Mother-in Law Story by Siân James
  
• Author Visit by Catherine Fisher
  

Poems

Poems by :
Glenda Beagan
Deborah Chivers
Patrick Gilmore
Paul Groves
Nigel Jenkins
Chris Kinsey
Lorna Lloyd
Christopher Meredith
James Waller-Davies

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.

• James Hanley: Modernism and the Working Class by John Fordham
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 0708317553  hb £25.00
  Reviewed by Stephen Wade
  
  
• Scotland: A Short History by Christopher Harvie
  Published by Oxford University Press
  ISBN 0192100548  £8.99
  Reviewed by Dai Smith
  
  
• These Poor Hands by B.L. Coombes (with an introduction by Bill Jones and Chris Williams)
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 0708315631  £7.99
  Reviewed by David Barnes
  
  
• Rhondda Voices by Sean James Cameron
  Published by Tempus
  ISBN 0752426257  £10.99
  Reviewed by David Barnes
  
  
• Llantrisant by Dean Powell
  Published by Tempus
  ISBN 0752424971  £10.99
  Reviewed by David Barnes
  
  
• Diwylliant Gwerin Morgannwg by Allan James
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN 1843230917  £12.95
  Reviewed by David Barnes
  
  
• Lloyd George: War Leader by John Grigg
  Published by Penguin/Allen Lane
  ISBN 071399343X  hb £25.00
  Reviewed by Rufus Adams
  
  
• Presences that Disturb: Models of Romantic Identity in the Literature and Culture of the 1790s by Damian Walford Davies
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 0708317383  hb £40.00
  Reviewed by Mary-Ann Constantine
  
  
• Touch Wood, poems and a story by Dannie Abse
  Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
  ISBN 0863817017  £1.99
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• A Carol for the Coalfield and other poems by Idris Davies
  Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
  ISBN 0863817025  £1.99
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• Laughter Tangles in Thorn and other poems by Mike Jenkins
  Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
  ISBN 0863817033  £1.99
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• An Elusive Tradition: Art and Society in Wales 1870-1950 by Eric Rowan and Carolyn Stewart
  Published by University of Wales press
  ISBN 0708317693  hb £25.00
  Reviewed by Rex Harley
  
  
• Hex by Carol Rumens
  Published by Bloodaxe
  ISBN 1852246022  £7.95
  Reviewed by Anna Wigley
  
  
• Dart by Alice Oswald
  Published by Faber
  ISBN 057121410X  £8.99
  Reviewed by Anna Wigley
  
  
• 2 by Twm Morys
  Published by Cyhoeddiadau Barddas
  ISBN 1900437481  £6.00
  Reviewed by Rocet Arwel Jones
  
  
• Birdsong by Dewi Roberts (Ed)
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113267  £7.95
  Reviewed by Merryn Williams
  
  
• Accident by Kath Jones
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN 1843231832  £6.95
  Reviewed by Petra Bennett
  
  
• Each Man Kills by David Barry
  Published by Gomer
  ISBN 1843230828  £6.95
  Reviewed by Petra Bennett
  
  
• Barbsmashive (Spells Trouble) by Mike Jenkins
  Published by Pont Books
  ISBN 1843231204  £3.95
  Reviewed by Catherine Fisher
  
  
• Riley, Kylie and Smiley by Malachy Doyle
  Published by Pont Books
  ISBN 1843231182  £3.50
  Reviewed by Catherine Fisher
  
  
• Funfair of Fear by Ruth Morgan (illustrated by Chris Glynn)
  Published by Pont Readalone
  ISBN 1843231212  £36.50
  Reviewed by Sue Moules
  
  
• Betsan the Brave by Jenny Sullivan
  Published by Pont
  ISBN 184323145X  £3.95
  Reviewed by Sue Moules
  
  

Letters

• Review of John Davies's North by South: New and Selected Poems - Mary Greenall