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Issue 89, Autumn 2010

Editorial

Here and There (Kathryn Gray)

When I took the helm of New Welsh Review in 2008, many trusted sources of wisdom and hard-won experience told me I was mad. Of course, at the time I more than half believed them. I was a London-based poet and critic. I wondered how it could be done, this career on the move, and, back then, I wondered – more than I perhaps should have, on reflection – how it would be regarded by others. So it was with a high degree of trepidation that I took my first journey from Euston to the beautiful West – and all that lay before me, the UK rail infrastructure being what it is: fast through the grids of Milton Keynes and leaving Coventry, past the canals, the derelict, graffiti-tagged breweries to Birmingham, and on to Shrewsbury, and the slow shunt into Wales. Then, back again. A rhythm that has defined my life and determined my dreams.
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Features

  • Exiles by Niall Griffiths
    Niall Griffiths on homecomings and belonging, both physically and in influencing his and others’ writing: ‘holes in the heart are essential for art’.

  • At the Inquiry by Robert Lewis
    Robert Lewis on the day Tony Blair appeared at the Chilcot Inquiry: darker than any noir fiction.

  • Slanderous Tongues by John Redmond
    John Redmond’s critical review of a new study of Welsh poetry in English.

  • Journal in Ireland by Katie Gramich
    Katie Gramich on Margiad Evan’s illustrated journal of her travels.

  • First Hand by Philip Gross
    Poet Philip Gross on the meaning of home, routes, not roots, that led to his prize-winning book The Water Table.

  • The Last Word by Sheenagh Pugh
    Sheenagh Pugh on a sense of place or displacement.

  • Photo Essay: Bologna's Hinterland by Rhodri Jones
    Rhodri Jones explores the urban/rural divide in Bologna’s Hinterland.

 

Fiction

  • First Love by Francesca Rhydderch
  • Through the Blind by Stewart Foster

Poetry

Poems by :
Tiffany Atkinson
Paul Henry
Meirion Jordan
Tim Liardet
Lorraine Mariner
Andrew McNeillie

Reviews

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    Published by Bloodaxe
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    Reviewed by Tim Liardet

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    Published by Parthian
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    Reviewed by Mary-Ann Constantine

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    Published by Aurum
    ISBN 9781845134310  pb £16.99
    Reviewed by Anna Kiernan

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    Published by Carcanet
    ISBN 9781857549683  pb £9.95
    Reviewed by Kathryn Maris

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    Published by Carcanet
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    Reviewed by Kathryn Maris

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    Published by University of Wales Press
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    Reviewed by Molly James

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    Published by Seren
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    Reviewed by Susie Wild

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    Published by Alcemi
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    Reviewed by Susie Wild

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    Reviewed by Sarah Broughton


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