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New Welsh Reader 122: Dystopian Fiction from Wales
New Welsh Reader: Summer 2020
New Welsh Reader 121: Prose from Wales
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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

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Release dateSep 1, 2019
New Welsh Reader 122: Dystopian Fiction from Wales
New Welsh Reader: Summer 2020
New Welsh Reader 121: Prose from Wales

Titles in the series (9)

  • New Welsh Reader 121: Prose from Wales

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    New Welsh Reader 121: Prose from Wales
    New Welsh Reader 121: Prose from Wales

    New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 winner Peter Goulding writes, with humour and warmth, in his essay 'On Slate', about a group of north-western English punks who escaped the 80s recession to claim dole in Llanberis and climb the rock faces of former slate quarries. Richard John Parfitt's third-placed essay, 'Tales from the

  • New Welsh Reader 122: Dystopian Fiction from Wales

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    New Welsh Reader 122: Dystopian Fiction from Wales
    New Welsh Reader 122: Dystopian Fiction from Wales

    Utopias and dystopias predominate in this selection of novella extracts from Wales. Includes the winners and nominations in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella, plus a photo essay by Tim Cooke and Ben Absalom on the Bridgend estate, Wildmill, and a column by editor and translator Gwen Davies on

  • New Welsh Reader: Summer 2020

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    New Welsh Reader: Summer 2020
    New Welsh Reader: Summer 2020

    Anthology of creative work from Wales and beyond, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, photography and artwork. This edition's theme is 'contrary', and features the poetry of the prizewinning Robert Minhinnick and a linocut by the renowned artist Dan Llywelyn Hall, as well as a feature on dentistry and concept

  • New Welsh Reader, Autumn 2020: New Welsh Review 124

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    New Welsh Reader, Autumn 2020: New Welsh Review 124
    New Welsh Reader, Autumn 2020: New Welsh Review 124

    Anthology/journal of creative writing from Wales and beyond on the theme of sea change, including essays, biography, memoir, literary essays, history, natural history, book extracts, fiction, writing of place, nature and poetry, plus original artwork, illustration and photography. * Excerpts from the three winning and three hig

  • New Welsh Reader Winter 2020: New Welsh Review

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    New Welsh Reader Winter 2020: New Welsh Review
    New Welsh Reader Winter 2020: New Welsh Review

    An anthology of high quality prose and poetry by prizewinning authors from Wales and beyond, on the theme of Wild Unassuming Spaces. Philip Gross contributes two preview poems from his forthcoming collection for Seren, Troeon/Turnings. Thrice Wales Book of the Year winner Robert Minhinnick offers 'Ffynnon Wen', part of a project called Our Squar

  • New Welsh Reader: A Casual Archaeology: New Welsh Reader 129 (New Welsh Review Summer 2022)

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    New Welsh Reader: A Casual Archaeology: New Welsh Reader 129 (New Welsh Review Summer 2022)
    New Welsh Reader: A Casual Archaeology: New Welsh Reader 129 (New Welsh Review Summer 2022)

    European female-led writing with a focus on Wales, photography, memoir, writing of place and poetry. On the theme of 'Casual Archaeology', it explores the rich archaeology of threatened estuary landscapes, the layers of time and affiliation in an Iranian exile's relationship to her poet father, and how an Iron Age hill fort inspires ideas about

  • New Welsh Reader 128: Fathers and Daughters

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    New Welsh Reader 128: Fathers and Daughters
    New Welsh Reader 128: Fathers and Daughters

    This edition/anthology focuses on photography, commemoration and reinvention, with particular attention paid to the memories that pass from father to daughter. Photographer MR Thomas writes about the October 1999 day that he shot the iconic group portrait of cultural legends RS Thomas, Kyffin Williams and Emyr Humphreys, at RS Thomas' home in Pe

  • New Welsh Reader 133: Voices

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    New Welsh Reader 133: Voices
    New Welsh Reader 133: Voices

    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

  • New Welsh Reader 132: Metamorphosis

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    New Welsh Reader 132: Metamorphosis
    New Welsh Reader 132: Metamorphosis

    European female-led literature with an emphasis on place in prose, the narrative voice in fiction, diversity in poetry and beauty and imagination in photography. This anthology takes the theme of metamorphosis, and presents a feature-length profile of trans pioneer and travel author Jan Morris; the stunning photographs, by the multiple internat

Author

Robert Minhinnick

Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 in Neath, South Wales. He grew up near Bridgend and studied at the universities of Aberystwyth and Cardiff, then after working in an environmental field, co-founded Friends of the Earth (Cymru) and became the organisation's joint co-ordinator for some years. He is advisor to the charity, 'Sustainable Wales' and has edited the international quarterly, Poetry Wales. As well as being an active environmental campaigner, he is an essayist and poet, having published two collections of essays: Watching the Fire Eater (1992), winner of the 1993 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award; and Badlands (1996), essays about post-communist Albania, California and the state of Wales and England. He has also edited Green Agenda: essays on the environment of Wales (1994). His book, To Babel and Back, was published in 2005 and won the 2006 Wales Book of the Year Award. His poetry collections include A Thread in the Maze (1978); Native Ground (1979); Life Sentences (1983); The Dinosaur Park (1985); The Looters (1989); and Hey Fatman (1994). A Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in 1999, followed by After the Hurricane (2002) and King Driftwood (2008). In 2003, the same publisher issued his translations from the Welsh, The Adulterer's Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation. Robert Minhinnick lives in Porthcawl, South Wales. His debut novel, Sea Holly, was published in 2007, and shortlisted for the 2008 Ondaatje Prize. His latest books of poetry include The Keys of Babylon (2011), shortlisted for the 2012 Wales Book of the Year Award, his New Selected Poems (2012), and Diary of the Last Man (2017), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

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