New Welsh Review 66, Winter 2004
Editorial:
Devolution or Dissolution? (Francesca Rhydderch)
By some sad irony, the First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan, chose to announce sweeping changes to arts funding in Wales just a few days after the celebratory opening of the Wales Millennium Centre. While WMCs programme will be mainstream and its activities Cardiff-based, such an important focus for arts activity cannot fail to have a ripple effect on the rest of Wales.
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Features
- Dylan Thomas, 'Philo-Semite' by Andrew Lycett
Andrew Lycett re-evaluates Dylan Thomas's friendship with Mervyn Levy, the first of Dylan's Jewish mentors and friends.
- Armadillo on a Bed of Hardcore by Peter Finch
A personal and passionate view of how the Wales Millennium Centre came into being.
- Psycho-colonialism by Dai Smith
Dai Smith reviews Stephen Knight's A Hundred years of Fiction: Writing Wales in English, and questions Knight's views on colonialism. Are they intellectually tenable?
- 'Owe are Ewe?' by Rachel Trezise
A reflection on the work of Neale Howells: enfant terrible of the Welsh contemporary arts scene.
- 'How to be an expatriate' by Anna Kiernan
Peter Ho Davies, critically acclaimed author and winner of numerous prestigious literary awards, interviewed by Anna Kiernan.
Fiction
- Think of England by Peter Ho Davies
An extract from a novel-in-progress
- These Things You Learn by Joanna Quinn
- Prospects by Carrie Etter
Poems
Poems by :
Dannie Abse
Roger Caldwell
Joseph Clancy
Ian Gregson
Philip Gross
Richard Gwyn
Paula Harries
Alan Perry
Richard Poole
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.
 Laughing, Not Laughing by Catherine Merriman (Ed)
Published by Honno
ISBN 1870206622 pb £7.99
Reviewed by Kaite O'Reilly
- Cressida's Bed by Desmond Barry
Published by Jonathan Cape
ISBN 0224573486 hb £16.99
Reviewed by Tony Curtis
- Window Dressing for Hermes by Rhian Saadat
Published by Parthian
ISBN 1902638409 pb £7.99
Reviewed by Claire Powell
- The Shape of My Country by Tony Conran
Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
ISBN 0863818870 £5.50
Reviewed by Richard Poole
- Wounded Wind by Carlos Casares, trans.
Published by Planet
ISBN 0954088131 pb £5.75
Reviewed by Amanda Hopkinson
- Conquerors of Time by Trevor Fishlock
Published by John Murray
ISBN 0719555175 hb £25.00
Reviewed by John Harrison
- Velocity: The Best of Apples & Snakes by Maja Prausnitz (Ed)
Published by Black Spring Press
ISBN 0948238283 pb £9.95
Reviewed by Tiffany Atkinson
- History and the Media by David Cannadine (Ed)
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 1403920370 hb £19.99
Reviewed by Colin Thomas
- At a Stretch by Ian Davidson
Published by Shearsman Books
ISBN 0907562442 pb £8.95
Reviewed by Nathalie Wourm
- Featherpaths by Clyde Holmes
Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
ISBN 0863818862 pb £4.75
Reviewed by Nathalie Wourm
- Questioning the Comet by Stevie Krayer
Published by Gomer
ISBN 1843233460 pb £7.99
Reviewed by Nathalie Wourm
- Kafka by Nicholas Murray
Published by Little, Brown
ISBN 0316724793 hb £22.50
Reviewed by Herbert Williams
- Boys: Stories and a Novella by David Lloyd
Published by Syracruse University Press
ISBN 0815607970 hb £22.95
Reviewed by Kate North
- Twelve Cities: A Memoir by Roy Jenkins
Published by Macmillan
ISBN 1405000317 hb £20.00
Reviewed by Rufus Adams
- A Place in the Mind by R. Gerallt Jones
Published by Gomer
ISBN 1843233657 pb £6.99
Reviewed by Mary-Ann Constantine
- Summer Journal 1951 by Gwyn Williams, with an Introduction and Afterword by Lowri Gwilym and Teleri William
Published by Planet
ISBN 0954088123 bp £5.75
Reviewed by Mary-Ann Constantine
Letters
- Laureates - does Wales need one? - John Barnie; Welsh Books Council, S4C, Urdd Gobaith Cymru and Academi
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