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The Distance
Great boxing matches are ‘allegories authored in blood’, wrote Budd Schulberg. It’s quoted late on in Ivan Vladislavíc’s sixth novel, which, among oth …
Read moreWe Could Be Anywhere by Now
The poems in Katherine Stanfield’s second collection bristle with curiosity and the desire to understand the world through personal experience. Embedd …
Read moreFootnotes to Water
Zoë Skoulding is a poet and translator whose newest collection with Seren deals with bodies of water and how they connect to people’s lives. Footnotes …
Read moreGeiriau Diflanedig
The 2014 revision of the United Nations’ document revealed that, for the first time, the globe’s urban population accounted for more than half of all …
Read moreThe Chosen
Leah’s father sighed and shook the reins. Twenty-year-old Leah, next to him in the one-horse buggy, looked up from her Gospel book. She knew that bein …
Read moreInterview with João Morais
João Morais holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, and he writes regularly for New Welsh Review and other publications. A number of …
Read moreThe Dragon Has Two Tongues
I was struck by the way in which the long list for New Welsh Readers’ Poll reached way beyond Wales: to America, to Canada and to Nigeria. I was quiet …
Read moreInterview with Joanne Limburg
Joanne Limburg was born in London in 1970, and studied Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She won an Eric Gregory award for her poetry in 1998 …
Read moreThe House in Tigre
We have a house in South America. Here are the dogs with no owner, the river, palm trees, summer, the little tangled bush of wild roses, slanting ligh …
Read moreContemporary Literature from Wales
Gwen Davies on recent fiction in English from Wales, Robin Chapman on the rejection of politicisation in Welsh-language literature since devolution, S …
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