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Issue 88, Summer 2010

Editorial

Redux (Kathryn Gray)

This year’s Academi Conference was held in February. New Narratives looked to explore the various ways in which fresh engagement with form by both writers and their audiences is taking hold, challenging the notions of what literature may, should or eventually could be as the twenty-first century progresses. It was a fascinating and stimulating two days – and prompted as many questions as it did answers. Which is what it’s all about.
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Features

  • Adaption by Russell Celyn Jones
    On reworking The Mabinogion

  • The Overlay by Mary-Ann Constantine
    Mary-Ann Constantine makes a pilgrimage to France

  • In Search of Fiction by Richard Collins
    Richard Collins relates the journey towards completing his forthcoming novel: ‘you set out looking for something in particular and end up coming home with something quite different’.

  • Penelope Mortimer by Sarah Broughton
    Sarah Broughton profiles a forgotten brilliance who ‘wrote caustic, spirited novels... “ bleak and exquisite” is worth reading’.

  • First Hand by Pascale Petit
    Poet Pascale Petit interprets the life and art of Frida Kahlo in her fifth collection What the Water Gave Me.

  • The Last Word by Siân Melangell Dafydd
    On reading and reviewing
  • Photo Essay: A Landscape of Wales by James Morris

 

Fiction

  • The Jumpers by Damian Walford Davies
  • Karl's Gold by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Poetry

Poems by :
Paul Groves
Stephen Knight
Ruth Padel
Rebecca Perry
Oliver Reynolds
Ben Wilkinson
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Reviews

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    Published by Bloomsbury
    ISBN 9781408802724  pb £11.99
    Reviewed by Rachel Trezise

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    Published by Seren
    ISBN 9781854114921  pb £7.99
    Reviewed by Sarah Wardle

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    Published by Honno
    ISBN 9781906784072  pb £10.99
    Reviewed by Michelle Deininger

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    Published by Library of Wales / Parthian
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    Reviewed by Garan Holcombe

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    Published by Beautiful Books
    ISBN 9781905636495  pb £7.99
    Reviewed by Gerard Woodward

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    Published by Parthian
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    Reviewed by Rob A. Mackenzie

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    Published by Cinnamon
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    Reviewed by Rob A. Mackenzie

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    Published by Cinnamon
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    Reviewed by David Towsey

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    Published by Parthian
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    Reviewed by Suzy Ceulan Hughes

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    Published by Bloodaxe
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    Reviewed by Zoë Brigley

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    Published by Portobello
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    Reviewed by Niall Griffiths

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    Published by 'amabooks
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    Reviewed by Jane MacNamee

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    Published by Honno
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    Reviewed by Sarah Morse


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