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    This got me thinking not just about myself [a nonbinary individual] and others like me, but also feminine men and antagonism towards femininity in general – whether it’s towards its superficial presentation or otherwise. Queer feminist poets everywhere, this is our time to rise. Moore has only got t …

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    For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

    For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain draws on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love. According to the author, they are ‘two of the most important books written in the medieval period – and they are both by women.’

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    Lairs

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    If there is anything that underpins Welshness historically for Bullough, it is ‘a richer relationship with the natural world’ that he locates in Celtic Christianity….

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Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers

Solly Hardwick enjoys a novel about a gardener, a cook and a celebrity butcher, which upends the conventions and simplifications of the novel of intrigue

PUBLISHED ON: 02/08/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

A meditation on the centrality of change to our lives – it’s hard, but never too late….

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A poem by Wendy Allen about emotional dysregulation and desire

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

The part when I changed my dress / when we got back is there, Friday 2nd10.17pm and I am / bra-less stepping into a too-long dress….

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Garden Party

A poem by Natalie Crick about summer first love

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

I loved a boy when I was a boy. / Mam saw him coming through the gate / with the nana from No 6….

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A poem by Matthew Valades about loneliness and technology

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

It asked me ‘WTF is up?’ I replied, ‘I wish / I felt better. I’m lonely all the time. Even things / that should be good seem flat and kind of dumb.’

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After The Arecibo Telescope Was Closed Down…

A poem by Mat Riches about science, communication, physics and alien invasion

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

It feels like we’re stuck on one tick in a galactic WhatsApp group. / Are you ghosting us?

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Nighttime Pram Pushers Club

A poem by Christopher Horton about fatherhood and emerging identity

PUBLISHED ON: 01/08/23

CATEGORY: Poetry

We who when we see each other nod / and say ‘alright, mate’ as if we are pushing dodgems / at a fair ground, not babies….

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Drift (mentored review)

Fans of magical realism, folklore and bittersweet love affairs will relish the surreal experience of Caryl Lewis’ English-language debut, writes TK Quentin

PUBLISHED ON: 14/07/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

Award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter Caryl Lewis’ latest adult novel Drift weaves a tale of love, family and Islamophobia….

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Live Interview Recording from Hay Festival

Feature-length in-person interview by New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies with Nemesis, My Friend author Jay Griffiths, Birdsplaining author Jasmine Donahaye and Rachel Hewitt, author of In Our Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors. Subjects discussed include winter sports, teenage girls' inhibition in relation to nature and the outdoors, and the colonial origins of ornithology

PUBLISHED ON: 14/07/23

CATEGORY: Interview audio

‘The experience of non-human neighbours… the animate world… of which we’re part… and engaging with other living creatures, can just put your own …

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