Editorials

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...

The Hardest Button to Button

Editorial by Gwen Davies for the December 2018 Edition of New Welsh Reader.

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The Woman at the Well

When I got out at the station I found the only way of getting to the house was on foot. Jameson, a little man with a thin moustache and turn-down collar, took me first of all a three-mile climb on a rough road; then we crossed a colliery tramway...

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Popular Cultural History of Newport by Former 60-ft Dolls Member and Gay Coming of Age Dystopia Among Shortlisted Entries

Musicians and writers packed out last night's New Welsh Writing Awards shortlisting event at Aberystwyth Arts Centre bookshop
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Last year, a message on our answerphone for our twelve-year-old son took us all by surprise. It was from the Poetry Society and told Morgan that his poem ‘Sker Beach’ had been chosen as one of the commended entries in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. He was unfazed until we were in the Southbank Centre for the ceremony, with no real concept beforehand of what it meant – but I knew. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks: my boy, my clever boy...

01/05/2019

Anna Falcini, In Between the Folds are Particles, at Oriel Davies, Newtown

Ellen Bell is bowled over by this homage to Gwen John which plays masterfully with micro and macro

26/02/2019

Reclaiming Gay Rural Wales

Kaja Brown enjoys a performance about the Ladies of Llangollen and anticipates the publication of Mike Parker’s memoir about the gay couple he inherited his house from, an event in LGBT+ History Month at Ceredigion Museum

13/02/2019

Love Welsh Poetry, A Journey Like No Other

Kaja Brown commends an innovative trail of love poems to celebrate the Welsh Valentines season at Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth

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Back in Bridgend, Hannah Austin was so posh she went horseriding, but, on a writing course in England’s capital, she discovers her background is an exotic object of pity more...