New Welsh Review

For over 30 years, New Welsh Review Ltd 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.

We have published some of the greatest writers and thinkers from Wales and beyond; Dannie Abse, Paul Muldoon, P.D. James, Emyr Humphreys, Leslie Norris, Gwyneth Lewis, Les Murray, Rachel Trezise, Niall Griffiths, Owen Sheers, Tiffany Murray, Edna Longley, Byron Rogers and Gillian Clarke. In summer 2015 we rebranded the creative magazine as New Welsh Reader, to combine the appeal of the new while maintaining our traditions and track record.

We now have a fully searchable archive available, which goes back to 2000.

Featuring Phước Tiến, Susan Karen Burton, Jayne Joso, Deidre Brennan and Joshua Jones

THEME: EAST ASIA

Female-led literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times in the literary essay, and illustrative panache overall.

Originating in Wales and with international ambition. Here we bring together the best of NWR’s online essays and review-essays within a showcase of new work previewing forthcoming titles from some of this country’s key English-language publishers. Plus, there's new work from Phước Tiến, Susan Karen Burton, Jayne Joso and Deidre Brennan, and 'Hi Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo).

 
CONTENTS:

The River Collects Its Debt: Story by Phước Tiến, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý

Respite: Joshua Jones in Hà Nội

Cover Story: Hmong Mountain Guide by Lewis Davies

Powder to the People! The philosophy of Hokkaido capitalist ski bum, Jac Phillips: Biography/oral history by Susan Karen Burton

Hi-Mawari: The lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo)

How Japan Shapes My Work: Jayne Joso

The Banana Banshee: Story by Deidre Brennan, translated from the Irish by the author

Plus review essays by Steven Lovatt on restoring natural and cultural ecologies in the work of Ruth Bidgood, Rae Howells and Carwyn Graves, and JL George on trauma and the magical child in recent novels by Lloyd Markham, Carly Holmes and Vajra Chandrasekera