New Welsh Review 138: Summer 2025

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Edited by Susie Wild

Founded in 1988, New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English. For over twenty-five years, it has been central to the Welsh literary scene in offering a vital outlet for the very best new fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, a forum for critical debate and a rigorous and engaged reviewing culture. Today, New Welsh Review holds true to its original mission statement: to be dynamic, curious, lively and outward-looking, to commemorate the past but to celebrate contemporary excellence and new directions.

CONTENTS:

Editorial: Susie Wild

Photo Essay: Nearly There? Jon Pountney on his journey photographing the South Wales Valleys.

Featured Poets: Abeer Ameer – Srebrenica, Town of Silver and Salt (extracts from a long poem sequence commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide); glimpses of a long-running poem-and-image conversation between Penarth-based poet Philip Gross and Luxembourgois-American visual artist Kiera Faber; a cover poem from Roberto Pastore; and new work from the winner of the 2024 Jerwood Poetry Prize clare e. potter, and the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize shortlisted writers. 

Essays: Brennig Davies on masculinity and silence in Joe Dunthorne’s Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance and Anthony Shapland’s A Room Above a Shop; Imogen Davies on the controversies surrounding journalist, academic, and writer Goronwy Rees, his association with the Cambridge Spy Ring, and dislocation in his semi-autobiographical debut novel The Summer Flood; Jemma L. King on lyrical resistance in new poetry collections from Emily Cotterill, Gwyneth Lewis, Pascale Petit and Tracey Rhys; Harper Dafforn on feminine alienation and flights from urban life in the Spanish novel Un Amor by Sarah Mesa (tr. Katie Whittlemore, Peirene Press) and the Catalan novel Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (tr. Julia Sanches, And Other Stories).

++ new writing from the Rheidol Prize: For Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting shortlist.