New Welsh Reader 133: Voices
By Elizabeth Griffiths and Mark Blayney
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Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction and diversity in poetry. Plus illustrations by Katherine Cleaver. This edition presents the winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting: 'Invisibility' by Mark Blayney, a fictionalised biography of
Elizabeth Griffiths
Elizabeth Griffiths lives in Pembrokeshire, where she grew up. She studied at St David's University College, Lampeter, and trained as a journalist on the Barry and District News in what was then South Glamorgan. Several of her short stories have appeared in Welsh publications, including Parthian Books' anthology of New Welsh Short Fiction, Mama's Baby (Papa's Maybe). She worked for many years in the visual arts, which involved writing about and assisting with painting exhibitions and sculpture installations. In 2018, she completed a Creative Writing MA at Swansea University. Her entry, 'In My Father's House', was placed second in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Setting in summer 2023, gaining for Elizabeth a stay at Nant, a self-catering retreat on the site of Tŷ Newydd.
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New Welsh Reader 133 - Gwen Davies
Contents
IMPRINT
IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE
THE KING OF SWANSEA
INVISIBILITY
THE SIGNATURE OF GATES
THE VISITOR CENTRE
THE LAST DAY BY OWAIN OWAIN
IT’S HARD TO HEAR
ONLY ACCESSIBLE BY WATER
UNSEASONAL
MOLES
SISTER DORA ARRIVES IN WALSALL
THE LEGEND OF SISTER’S ARM
THE RIVERFLY CENSUS
UNDER THE HUT
LOVE POEM: RAIN
NAMING HER HUNGERS
LITTORAL
IMPRINT
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Main images: Cover photographs © Griffiths family: (front), Lena Estella Littler, (aunt of Elizabeth Griffiths) travelling in Corsica, 1954, (front inside) parents of Elizabeth in Llanelli on their wedding day, 1958, (back inside) Lena in Paris, 1953, (back) Lena at Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence, 1955. Contents page: ‘Llanelli Beach’, illustration by Katherine Cleaver.
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IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE
MEMOIR BY ELIZABETH GRIFFITHS
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE FAMILY OF ELIZABETH GRIFFITHS, UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE
When I was young it wasn’t the houses we lived in that preoccupied my father, but Houses of God. Each of the small country churches he looked after became, for a while, a labour of love. If he dashed home looking dishevelled and dirty, his hair almost white with dust, we knew that Dad had been ‘mending the church’. If we heard hammering inside the building as we passed, we imagined him hacking great chunks of green-streaked plaster off the walls prior to repairing the stonework himself, as best he could.
Once I went back to the first church where he was rector in a small village in the Preseli hills and by chance met a parishioner who remembered him and showed me part of the chancel wall which he had repointed nearly fifty years ago. It had remained untouched ever since. ‘He did a good job,’ the parishioner had said, smiling. And it made me smile too, that rather than a plaque or a name on a board, the wall itself was a kind of memorial to him.
My father tackled these building projects as soon as we moved to a new parish, but before long they fizzled out, probably for lack of time and money as well as enthusiasm. He was always at his most energised in the first months after a move, and these were the best times for our family. Dad was happy then, his most inspiring self, full of ideas and rushing off, morning to night. To my sisters and I