Tag: isolation
Kelley Mckenna reviews ‘Love’, a novel by Hanne Ørstavik
Kelley Mckenna reviews ‘Love’, a novel by Hanne Ørstavik, published by Archipelago. New Welsh Review’s multimedia programme is sponsored by Aberystwyt …
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Honey Poo Poo and the Sad Songs of the Homesick
Depending on how you came across her, Judith Owen could strike you as several different people. Her range of work throughout her career is like a hall …
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The Cycling Biographer
In the early 1990s, Graham Robb retreated to the hills near Llangollen to write his first book, a life of Balzac. It was, he says, an isolated spot, a …
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My Falling Down House
My Falling Down House is the critically acclaimed third novel from writer and artist Jayne Joso. Her first to be set in Japan, it draws as extensively …
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The Way the Crocodile Taught Me
The Way the Crocodile Taught Me opens on an image of the marks careless people leave behind. In ‘2 Edinburgh Walk’, these are on kitchen tiles scorche …
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Will Wales Lead the Charge to Become a More Mindful Nation?
You may have been amused, puzzled or simply reassured to have learnt a little while ago that Wales is officially the ‘happiest place to be in the UK’. …
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Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business i …
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Other Harbours
“This is a town for old men’” is the first line of Anna Lewis’ poem, ‘Resistance’. It is also the first in her collection Other Harbours, and it opens …
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Keeping Up with the Joneses, NWR at Hay Festival 28 May 2013
The Landmarc 100 stage at Hay Festival was the aptly named venue for my conversation with Cynan Jones & Lloyd Jones about their novellas that were …
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