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New Welsh Review: Summer 2025


Have you ordered our Summer 2025 issue yet? Edited by yours truly. Inside you will find...

Editorial: Susie Wild

Beautiful redesign and new logo by Olwen Fowler.
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.
++ the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize winner, Natasha Gauthier, and runners-up Rhian Thomas, Cerys Hughes, Sarah Persson, Lesley James and Emma Baines.
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; and Richard Huw Morgan on the two brains – fiction and non-fiction – of John Williams.
Fiction: A new short story by Nara Vidal, translated from Portuguese by Emyr Wallace Humphreys.
++ new writing from the Rheidol Prize: For Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting winner Sam Christie and runners-up Natalie Ann Holborow and Sybilla Harvey.

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