
This issue is now sold out
There is no editorial in this issue (Belinda Humfrey)
read more...
• Saccharine or Echo Soundings? by Terry Gifford
Terry Gifford examines the notions of nature in Seamus Heaney's Station Island.
• James Kelman by Ian Bell
Ian Bell hears the voice of a disaffected Scotland in the writing of James Kelman, author of the novel The Busconductor Hines and short story collection Greyhound for Breakfast.
• Where Poets Walked on Parapets: Aberglasney by Rebecca Donahue
Rebecca Donahue visits 'Aberglasney', the house and garden of eighteenth century poet and painter John Dyer, and finds that, despite it's state of disrepair, it has the feel of a magic garden.
• Autobiography for a Change: W H Davies's Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and [i:Young Emma.] by Lawrence Normand
The author takes a close look at the autobiographical books of early twentieth century writer W H Davies, and finds that, as his life become more conventional, so his writing became less interesting.
• Interview with Ruth Bidgood by Angela Morton
The poet discusses how her return to Wales marked the beginning of her writing career, the influence that poetry and her local history writing have on each other and her minimalistic style.
• Letter from America by David Lloyd
David Lloyd gives American poetry a health check.
• Mrs Lyn Thomas by Michael Parnell
Obituary of Lyn Thomas, wife of Anglo-Welsh writer, Gwyn Thomas.
• A Welsh Story - George Chapman by Moira Vincentelli
The author reflects on the life of painter, George Chapman, whose main subject was the Rhonnda Valley.
• Sticks for Morning by Kate Robinson
• I Wonder by Gary Greenwood
• Tophet by Kirk McKune
• More or Less Anything At More or Less Any Time by Andrew Davies
Poems by :
Bernard Harrington
Paul Henry
Michael Ponsford
Robert Lumsden
David Winwood
R N Allan
Carole Satyamurti
Geoffrey Holloway
Clive Watkins
Douglas Phillips
Mark Jarman
D J Lightfoot
Oliver Reynolds
C P James
Mercer Simpson
Raymond Garlick
Christopher Pilling
Stan Jacoby
John Sewell
Sue Moules
Kenneth Pobo
Noragh Jones
Brian Louis Pearce
Peter Marshall
Selwyn Pritchard
David Wilson
Annemarie Austin
The majority of books reviewed in
New Welsh Review can
be bought online from
gwales.com, the Welsh Books Council's online
bookshop, by simply clicking on the 'buy now' icon. For any that
are unavailable, please contact the publishers or ask in your local
bookshop. All details were correct at the time of publication.
• Selected Poems by Jean Earle
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 174pp £5.99
Reviewed by Barbara Hardy
Buy at gwales.com
• Selected Poems by Sheenagh Pugh
Published by Seren
ISBN pb 168pp £5.99
Reviewed by Barbara Hardy
Buy at gwales.com
• Under Briggflatts by Donald Davie
Published by Carcanet
ISBN pb 261pp £18.95
Reviewed by Alun John
Buy at gwales.com
• Poetic Argument by Jonathan Kertzer
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN pb 201pp £26.95
Reviewed by Alun John
Buy at gwales.com
• Every Day Was Summer by Oliver Wynne Williams
Published by Gomer
ISBN pb 167pp £9.95
Reviewed by Mary Davies
Buy at gwales.com
• Growing Up in Kilvert Country (Recollections of a Radnorshire Childhood) by Mona M Morgan
Published by Gomer
ISBN pb 150pp £9.75
Reviewed by Mary Davies
Buy at gwales.com
• Whilom by Robert Watson
Published by Bloomsbury
ISBN pb 216pp £13.99
Reviewed by Michael Parnell
Buy at gwales.com
• How to Study Modern Poetry by Tony Curtis
Published by Macmillan
ISBN pb 172pp £6.99
Reviewed by Pauline Morgan
Buy at gwales.com
• Safe Levels by Alexis Lykiard
Published by Stride
ISBN pb 78pp £4.95
Reviewed by Peter Finch
Buy at gwales.com
• The Pheasant Plucker's Son by Mick North
Published by Littlewood
ISBN pb 48pp £5.00
Reviewed by Peter Finch
Buy at gwales.com
• Detox by Tony Conaboy
Published by Littlewood
ISBN pb 58pp £5.00
Reviewed by Peter Finch
Buy at gwales.com
• The New Divine Comedy by Michael Ivens
Published by Mammon Press
ISBN pb 51pp £6.00
Reviewed by Peter Finch
Buy at gwales.com
• Dress As for a Tarot Pack by Peter Redgrove
Published by Taxus
ISBN pb 56pp £4.99
Reviewed by Peter Finch
Buy at gwales.com
• Howell's Law by Anthony Howell
Published by Anvil
ISBN pb 78pp £5.95
Reviewed by Glyn Pursglove
Buy at gwales.com
• Natural Histories by Richard Poole
Published by Zena
ISBN pb 83pp £5.95
Reviewed by Glyn Pursglove
Buy at gwales.com
• Acts of Union: Selected Poems 1974-1989 by Nigel Jenkins
Published by Gomer
ISBN pb 143pp £6.75
Reviewed by Glyn Pursglove
Buy at gwales.com
• The Other Country by Carol Ann Duffy
Published by Anvil Press Poetry
ISBN pb 55pp £5.95
Reviewed by Deryn E Rees Jones
Buy at gwales.com
• Wales: an anthology by Alice Thomas Ellis
Published by Collins
ISBN pb 280pp £14.95
Reviewed by Gwyn Walters
Buy at gwales.com
• Exchanges: Poems by Women in Wales by Ed by Jude Brigley
Published by Honno
ISBN pb 102pp £3.95
Reviewed by Pauline Young
Buy at gwales.com
• The Unsaid Goodnight by Ed by Phil Carradice
Published by Stride
ISBN pb 56pp £4.95
Reviewed by Pauline Young
Buy at gwales.com
You can now get a taste of some of the excellent pieces in this issue online: