Editorials

Editorial for Issue 121

This autumn 2019 issue, New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 winner Peter Goulding writes, with humour and warmth, in his essay 'On Slate', about a group of north-western English punks who escaped the 80s recession to claim dole in Llanberis and climb the ...

Jumping Frogs

I write this twenty-eight weeks into pregnancy. I write while sitting in my living room, surrounded by the detritus of baby preparations and poetry submissions...

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GAVIN GOODWIN

The Fox and The Foil Mill

New short story by Aberystwyth-based author and academic Gavin Goodwin

NEWS

JL George and Peter Goulding Named Winners of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019

Pontypool's JL George ambitious novella with big themes and a teenage male friendship at its heart takes top prize alongside Peter Goulding's nonfiction account of the 80s Snowdonia oddball slate clim
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Lee and I walk out of the campsite and down the hill, past small sheepfields towards the village, a row of terrace houses reaches up. The slope of the road is hard on our shins. My boots go clump-clump-clump; it sounds like a marching soldier. The rain taps on our hoods, but it’s not enough to trouble our alpine-grade waterproofs...

20/11/2019

Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler, at Swansea’s Elysium Gallery

Demi Roberts notes the compassion inspired by this exploration of hypocritical attitudes to female sexuality and media scapegoating

12/11/2019

Kamil and Francis (presented by Theatr Cadair) by DJ Britton

Demi Roberts is grateful for small lapses of history, on watching this reimagining of an historical encounter between St Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil

01/10/2019

Borscht Without Tears

Jane MacNamee finds that beetroot returns her father to her

New Multimedia

John Morgan admires poetry and photography offering an ecological snapshot that uncovers an historical and archaeological timeline in its focus on a Norfolk Bronze Age timber circle threatened by rising tides more...