• Welsh Greats of the Century: Poets by Katie Gramich
The first article in a new series, Katie Gramich debates the relative merits of Wales's top English-language poets this century.
• R.S. Thomases: 'composer of the first radio-active verses' by John Pikoulis
Review of R.S. Thomas's Autobiographies.
• Poems that pass all understanding by Sheenagh Pugh
Pugh's commentary reveals that she finds an absence of meaning in much modern poetry.
• Forty years of stubbornness by Peter Stead
Peter Stead reviews Gwynfor Evans's memoirs For the Sake of Wales
• Trouble in Chatwin country by Nicholas Murray
Chatwin's biographer charts the literary assassination of a writer with a one-time legendary reputation.
• Cardiff International Poetry - the winners by Matthew Sweeney
The adjudication of the Welsh Academy's Cardiff International Poetry Competition 1997.
• Writer for a Lit-up People? by J. Roy Birch
J. Roy Birch explores the novels about Wales of writer James Hanley, who lived in Montgomeryshire for 30 years.
• 'The heart is a terrible prison' by Tony Brown
Tony Brown reviews a new edition of James Hanley's short stories.
• Healthy frictions of Past v. Future by Charmian Savill
Savill's review of the acting and performance environment in mid-Wales.
• Rich diversity masks the sense of crisis by Roger Owen
Roger Owen reviews critical study of theatre in Wales, Staging Wales: Welsh Theatre 1979-97.
• The problems - and pleasures - of entertainment by Jeni Williams
Review of recent theatre productions.
• Wizards of Oz by Jon Gower
Jon Gower reports from Perth, Western Australia, on the reception given to Fiction Factory's tour of House of America.
• Death, God and bloody coal by Topher Mills
A round up of TV and radio.

• Who belonged just long enough ago by Ron Berry
• Work - and it by E.M. Macdonald
• Dewi by Anna Young

Poems by :
Basil Griffiths
Nigel Jenkins
Ben Rice
Sheenagh Pugh
Anthony Dunn
Linda Rogers
Terry Sweetman
Phillip Ross
Glenda Beagan
Stuart Henson
Charles Bennett
Diana Sabot
Ross Cogan
Ann Atkinson
Cate Spajohn
Alison Pritzler-Rose
Tony Bryan
Ruth Bidgood
Janet Dube
Norman Schwenk
Ken Jones
Peter Finch

• Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry by Ed. by Dannie Abse
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 273pp £9.95
Reviewed by James A. Davies
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• Brenda Chamberlain by Kate Holman
Published by University of Wales Press
ISBN pb 112pp £5.95
Reviewed by Linda Adams
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• The Peacemakers: Selected Poems of Waldo Williams by trans. by Tony Conran
Published by Gomer
ISBN pb 214pp £9.50
Reviewed by Katie Gramich
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• John Cowper Powys by Herbert Williams
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 172pp £7.95
Reviewed by Belinda Humfrey
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• Welsh Painters Talking by Tony Curtis
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 223pp £14.95
Reviewed by Ozi Osmond
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• Dark Edge by Roger Granelli
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 186pp £6.95
Reviewed by Richard John Evans
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• Slipping Away from Milford by Rob Watson
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 221pp £6.95
Reviewed by Richard John Evans
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• Our Lady of Europe by Jeremy Hooker
Published by Enitharmon
ISBN pb 136pp £8.95
Reviewed by Graham Allen
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• Timeslips: new and collected poems by Anne Cluysenaar
Published by Carcanet
ISBN pb 136pp £8.95
Reviewed by Graham Allen
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• Useful by Peter Finch
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 72pp £6.95
Reviewed by Graham Allen
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• Travels with a Duchess by Menna Gallie
Published by Honno
ISBN pb 192pp £6.95
Reviewed by Jon Gower
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• Ze by Renee Smith
Published by Honno
ISBN pb 196pp £6.95
Reviewed by Jon Gower
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• The Undiminished by Terry Hetherington
Published by Swansea Poetry Workshop
ISBN pb 48pp £4.00
Reviewed by Craig Rhisiart Osborne
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• Wyneb y Wyneb/ Face to Face by Jon Dressel, T. James Jones
Published by Gwasg Gomer
ISBN pb 37pp £3.50
Reviewed by Craig Rhisiart Osborne
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• Monument by Labi Siffre
Published by Xavier Books
ISBN pb 66pp £6.95
Reviewed by Craig Rhisiart Osborne
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• Novella - A Novel Poem by Chris Bendon
Published by University of Salzburg
ISBN pb 181pp £9.95
Reviewed by Craig Rhisiart Osborne
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• A Guide to Welsh Literature c. 1530-1700 by Ed. by R. Geraint Gruffydd
Published by University of Wales Press
ISBN pb 293pp £12.85
Reviewed by Jerry Hunter
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• The Tenth String by J.P. Day
Published by Gomer
ISBN pb 384pp £12.95
Reviewed by David W. James
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• I Can Move the Sea by chosen by Gillian Clarke
Published by Pont
ISBN pb 101pp £5.95
Reviewed by Brian Smith
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• Thoughts Like An Ocean by Chosen by Neil Nuttall & Andy Hawkins
Published by Pont
ISBN pb 72pp £5.95
Reviewed by Brian Smith
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• The Sky Over Wales by
Published by Honno
ISBN Sian James pb 87pp £5.95
Reviewed by Jean Henderson
• Plateaux, Gateaux, Chateaux by Mary Davies Parnell
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 214pp £9.95
Reviewed by Jean Henderson
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• John Ormond's attachments - Glenys Ormond Thomas

• Response to article in issue 39 about John Ormond - Gilbert Bennett

• Do not go lightly - Linden Peach

• Home for a Welsh Assembly - Robert W. Warne

• Creative Writing Course - Dewi Roberts

• Kinnock biography - Mr Martin Westlake