New Welsh Review 87, Spring 2010

Editorial:

What Kind of Day Has it Been? (Kathryn Gray)

And so the end of a decade is behind us. Yes, the Noughties, an era that brought us once inconceivable horrors, crushing banalities and awesome technological advances in almost equal measure, is no more. Welcome, the Teens. Or the Tens. Or the Tenties. Or the Twenty-Tens. What you will. Welcome, too, we can only suppose, yet more unknown unknowns.
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Features

• Off By Heart by Tishani Doshi
  Tishani Doshi on writing from memory that isn’t memoir: ‘In the end, there is memory and there is the imagination, twinning and uncoupling till there is only one thing: the story’.
  
  
• The Graveyards of Vilnius by Tom Bullough
  Vignettes of life and death in the Lithuanian city.
  
  
• Sleeping Lord by Andrew McNeillie
  Andrew McNeillie on David Jones: ‘a Welsh patriot of a highly unusual kind’. McNeillie considers how Reading David Jones by Thomas Dilworth (UWP) sheds light on the work of a writer who deserves more than the current relative obscurity within the mainstream.
  
  
• Sparrow's Flight by Lloyd Jones
  Lloyd Jones in Berlin; a travelogue of place and time, with typically wry discursions on sex, literary theory and rock ‘n roll.
  
  
• First Hand by Gary Owen
  Gary Owen on verbatim theatre: creating a script from first person testimony.
  
  
• Last Word by Isabel Adonis
  Identity, language and literature.
  
  
• Photo Essay: Once We Were Birds by Tina Carr/Annemarie Schöne
  Roma Gypsies, Europe’s fastest growing minority.
  
  

Fiction

• I Go Underground by Deborah Kay Davies
  
• Looted by Dai Vaughan
  

Poems

Poems by :
Ivy Alvarez
Sarah Corbett
Tishani Doshi
Menna Elfyn
Peter Finch
James Midgley
Candy Neubert
Siriol Troup

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.

• Chasing Dean: Surfing America's Hurricane States by Tom Anderson
  Published by Summersdale
  ISBN 9781840247411  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by John Harrison
  
  
• The Meaning of Pictures: Images of Personal, Social and National Identity by Peter Lord
  Published by University of Wales Press
  ISBN 9780708322215  hb £40.00
  Reviewed by Hugh Adams
  
  
• Rooms by Keri Finlayson
  Published by Shearsman
  ISBN 9781848610347  pb £8.98
  Reviewed by David Wheatley
  
  
• The Treason of the Sparrows by Dai Vaughan
  Published by Terra Incognita
  ISBN 9780953504541  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Richard Poole
  
  
• The Ninth Wave by Russell Celyn Jones
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 9781854115140  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Jon Gower
  
  
• White Ravens by Owen Sheers
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 9781854115034  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Jon Gower
  
  
• Nu: Fiction & Stuff by Ed. Tomos Owen
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 9781905762972  pb £6.99
  Reviewed by Katherine Stansfield
  
  
• How We Met by Ian Gregson
  Published by Salt
  ISBN 9781844714803  hb £12.99
  Reviewed by Sarah Corbett
  
  
• Mrs D'Silva's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta by Glen Peters
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 9781906998011  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Anna Scott
  
  
• Carry Me Home by Terri Wiltshire
  Published by Macmillan New Writing
  ISBN 9780230714489  hb £12.99
  Reviewed by Emma Rea
  
  
• To Bury the Dead by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, translated by Anne McLean
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 9781905762415  pb £8.99
  Reviewed by Amanda Hopkinson
  
  
• Berg by Hilary Menos
  Published by Seren
  ISBN 9781854115089  pb £7.99
  Reviewed by Ben Wilkinson
  
  
• Almanac: Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English: 13 by Ed. Katie Gramich
  Published by Parthian
  ISBN 9781905762750  pb £14.99
  Reviewed by Jasmine Donahaye
  
  

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