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The Hardest Button to Button

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

Citizen Thinker Ed

Editorial of the 1 September 2018 issue of the New Welsh Reader.

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S BERYL JONES

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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Wild swimming is the most free I can imagine being right now, for a brief time between chores, my phone left on the shore, my toddler in someone else’s care. A recent swimming multimedia exhibition, Swimming, at Aberystwyth Arts Centre called to me like a siren’s song. The artists were all women, and their artwork invited me to submerge my mind with them, in wild, cold Welsh water. They are not alone in feeling the joy; wild swimming is hot right now. What can we take from their work? Is it significant that they are all women?

03/12/2018

The Last Polar Bear on Earth

Eleanor Howe admires these humorous, engaging poems about being ill, being in love and abusive relationships, in which the reader is made privy to some of life’s startlingly intimate happenings

13/11/2018

Serendipitous Intimations of Mortality

On reading undertaker-poet Thomas Lynch’s collection, Nigel Jarrett considers forms of dignified leave-taking that include long-lasting remembrance

08/10/2018

Waking the Witch: Old Ways, New Rites

Ellen Bell assesses this visual exploration at Oriel Davies, Newtown, of the ‘witch’ through the ages, right up to feminist icon and modern-day shaman

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‘Skin alight’, having joined the swimming revolution, the author, in this homage to Roger Deakin, fails to cure his own anxiety, writes Jane MacNamee, but all the same makes a heartfelt account to resist the pale shadow of virtual reality more...