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We realise that we hadn’t released a review round-up for a while, so we thought we'd do a quick overview of the last couple of months! As it gets a bit colder and the darkness settles in, we find ourselves wrapping up in our thermals, scarves, and our favourite bobble hats, book in hand and nestled in our favourite chairs, hopefully near a window with a view...   Poetry Mab Jones’ offers her thoughts on a plethora of poetry: https://www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-polly-atkin-patrick-jones-topher-mills-october-feature/   Sex on Toast by Topher Mills  "Evocative, engaging, and entertaining, this is a true gem of a book."     Fuse/Fracture...

Holly Porter reviews one of the latest events to come from Swansea University’s Cultural Institute’s Literary Salon Series, ‘Voice and Form in Contemporary Fiction: Women Authors from Wales and Europe in conversation’ and explores where these critically-acclaimed female authors fit within the literature of today.

With a foreword from Michael Sheen, the debate is complimented by the stylistic framework of these essays which are current, informed and inherently political. In understanding the devolution process in Wales as it sets an argument for a new established path for not only the differences that we are hyperaware of as a nation due to the submersion of the global population within the realms of the pandemic, the paradigm has shifted in the consciousness of Welsh people. You can access the book here: https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/the-welsh-way-essays-on-neoliberalism-and-devolution

To celebrate this figure of Welsh literature, we firstly want to ensure we recognise how important this author's work stands in the voices of our nation. With clear and rational understanding, this body of work is a testament to standing up and speaking your whole truth with confidence.  ‘An interracial gay couple baby-sits the two young children of a friend for a weekend; a high school boy grapples with his emergent sexuality while looking for support from the conservative adults in his life; and a mentally disturbed woman seeks vengeance against the brother who slept with her husband, in John...