New Welsh Review 62, Winter 2003

Editorial:

Dylan Adieu (Francesca Rhydderch)

It takes about half an hour to drive from Aberystwyth to New Quay, on a road that runs like a lip along the coastline. Small villages look strangely toppled from a distance, their houses built haphazardly down to the water’s edge. Even in genteel Aberaeron many of them face away from the sea, although they most often meet across squares and car parks. New Quay is different. Almost every single house there looks over Cardigan Bay with its windows opening out across the water. The spirit of the place embraces the sea.
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Features

• Frostwork by Patrick McGuinness
  The poetry of Lynette Roberts - 'too important to be left to academics, copyright libraries and rare book dealers'.
  
  
• Inspired by Love by Owen Sheers
  A profile of the photographer David Hurn.
  
  
• From Llandudno to Llanrumney: Inscribing the Nation by Charlotte Williams
  A conversation piece with Leonora Brito about black writing, Anglo-Welsh writing, Welsh identity and mixed race identity, politics and place.
  
  
• The Rise and Rise of Welsh Writing in English by Kirsti Bohata
  Focussing on two publications, Welsh Writing in English: A yearbook of Critical Essays Volume 8 and A Guide to Welsh Literature, Vol. VII: Welsh Writing in English, Kirsti Bohata takes stock of the critical field of Welsh writing in English.
  
  
• Homage to Abse by Anna Kiernan
  An interview with Dannie Abse, poet, novelist and playwright, shortly before his eightieth birthday.
  
  
• A Writer's Diary by Mark Jenkins
  Launching Playing Burton in New York.
  
  

Fiction

• But Not Really by Rachel Trezise
  
• Lips by Robert Nisbet
  
• By the Sea by Duncan Salisbury
  

Poems

Poems by :
Charles Bennett
Robert Minhinnick
Nicholas Murray
Carol Rumens
Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2003 runners-up
John F. Deane
D.H.W. Grubb
Kerry Hardie
Alan John Winter
Susan Utting

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.

• Stump by Niall Griffiths
  Published by Cape
  ISBN 0224063286  pb £10.00
  Reviewed by Andrew Hussey
  
  
• Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcom Pryce
  Published by Bloomsbury
  ISBN 0747566577  pb £9.99
  Reviewed by Andrew Hussey
  
  
• New and Collected Poems by Dannie Abse
  Published by Hutchinson
  ISBN 0091795184  pb £15.99
  Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker
  
  
• Old People Are a Problem by Emyr Humphreys
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113313  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• Endangered Tiger: A Community Under Threat by Neil M.C. Sinclair
  Published by Butetown History and Arts Centre
  ISBN 1898317097  pb £13.99
  Reviewed by Charlotte Williams
  
  
• Between a Mountain and a Sea: Refugees Writing in Wales by E.N. Charles, T. Cheesman and S. Hoffman (Eds)
  Published by Hafan Books
  ISBN 095451470X  pb £5.00
  Reviewed by Charlotte Williams
  
  
• Greenland by Hilary Llewellyn Williams
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113526  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Kathryn Gray
  
  
• All This is Mine by Ray French
  Published by Secker & Warburg
  ISBN 0436210193  pb £10.00
  Reviewed by Jon Gower
  
  
• 'Where Have the Old Words Got Me?': Explications of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems by Ralph Maud
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 0708317790  £16.99
  Reviewed by John Goodby
  
  
• Imaging Wales: Contemporary art in context by Hugh Adams
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 1854113496  pb £9.95
  Reviewed by Shelagh Hourahane
  
  
• Where the Angolans Are Playing Football: Selected and New Poetry by Landeg White
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 1902638301  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Carrie Etter
  
  
• Henry Vaughan's 'Silex Scintillans': Scripture Uses by Philip West
  Published by Oxford University Press
  ISBN 0198187564  hb £45.00
  Reviewed by Stevie Davies
  
  
• The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry by Not supplied
  Published by Bloodaxe
  ISBN 1852245492  pb £10.95
  Reviewed by Christine Evans
  
  
• Birth of Welsh Democracy by John Osmond and J.Barry Jones
  Published by Institute of Welsh Affairs
  ISBN 1871726948  pb £19.99
  Reviewed by Emily Charette
  
  
• Courting Shadows by Jem Poster
  Published by Sceptre
  ISBN 0340822589  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Matthew Jarvis
  
  
• Empire: How the British Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
  Published by Allen Lane
  ISBN 0713966153  pb £25.00
  Reviewed by Chris Harvie
  
  
• Resolution by Roger Granelli
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 185411333X  pb £6.95
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• Journals by Josef Herman
  Published by Peter Halban
  ISBN 1870015819  pb £25.00
  Reviewed by Shelagh Hourahane
  
  
• The Oracle by Catherine Fisher
  Published by Hodder Childrens
  ISBN 0340843764  £5.99
  Reviewed by Jeni Williams
  
  

Letters

• Welsh publishers and book clubs - Richard Houdmont, University of Wales Press
• Welsh noir or y nofel ddu - Bob Macintosh