• Labour's chickens come home to roost by Peter Stead
Peter Stead discusses the crisis in the Labour Party in Wales and the current 'quiet earthquake' occurring in Welsh politics.
• "Dim enaid coll na Sais" ("Neither lost soul nor Saxon") by Jim Perrin
A tribute to Ioan Bowen Rees - poet, essayist and mountaineer.
• Living the day-dream by John Harrison
The author reflects on his first 6 months as a full-time writer.
• Inspiration v. Writer's Block by Penny Simpson
An Arts Council of Wales travel Bursary enabled Penny Simpson to travel to Berlin to research a forthcoming novel.
• Waiting for No Man: Lady Rhondda and Time and Tide. by Deirdre Beddoe
Dierdre Beddoe pays homage to "Britain's leading feminist between the wars", Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess of Rhondda.
• Nation, Class, Commitment by Huw Richards
Welsh Greats of the Century: Huw Richards on the respective merits of the century's sporting heroes.
• A Welsh poet's war by Don Dale-Jones
Welsh poet T H Jones's life during WW2 is traced in Part 11 of the 'War in Words' series.
• At the going down of the sun... by Ifor Thomas
Ifor Thomas reviews a new book about Wales's war memorials.
• In a strange land by Richard Poole
A discussion of the brilliance of Glyn Jones's novel The Island of Apples.
• Welshmen who changed the course of history by Phil Williams
Welsh Greats of the Century: a celebration of Wales's 20th century, world-class scientists.
• Drama and imagination in the new Wales by Jeni Williams
A report on the current state of theatre in Wales.
• An optic to examine experience by Mike Pearson, Lisa Lewis and Roger Owen
The authors explore the thinking behind U W Aberystwyth's new degree in Performance Studies.
• Killing Kangaroos by Roger Williams
Playwright Roger Williams discusses the experience of writing his new stage play in New South Wales, and of being one of the playwrights featured at this year's Australian National Playwrights' Conference.
• Two dramatists confirm their class by Charmian Savill
Charmian Savill champions the plays of Greg Cullen and Dic Edwards.
• Reality versus television by Topher Mills
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• For Art's Sake by Brian Smith
• Odyssey by Anna Wigley
• Changing the script by Mike Jenkins
• Sunset by Paul Bhogal

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• Sidereal Time by Christopher Meredith
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• Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, vol. 5/1999 by Edited by Tony Brown
Published by New Welsh Review Ltd
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• Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub by John Williams
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• A View Across the Valley: Short Stories by Women from Wales c. 1850-1950 by Ed. Jane Aaron
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• The Mayor of Aln by James Rourke
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• Selected Poems by Robert Minhinnick
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• Theatre of Flowers by Tony Conran
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• Eros Proposes a Toast: collected public poems and gifts by Tony Conran
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• One Moonlight Night/Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard
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• The Hunt & Other Poems by John Kinsella
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• Resurrection's Children by A M Allchin
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• God's Presence makes the World:The Celtic Vision through the Centuries of Wales by A M Allchin
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• Valleys of Song, Music and Society in Wales 1840-1914 by Gareth Williams
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• My Kingdom of Books by Richard Booth
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• Dylan Thomas's Wales by Hilary Laurie
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