New Welsh Review 138

Susie Wild is Parthian's publishing editor specialising in poetry and fiction. With Parthian since 2007, she's worked with award-winningwriters and translators including Lloyd Markham, Richard Owain Roberts, Rae Howells, Mari Ellis Dunning, Miren Agur Meabe, Amaia Gabantxo and Rebecca F. John. Following an MA in Creative Writing from Swansea University and an MA in Journalism from Goldsmiths, she has also built a portfolio career in the arts as a journalist, festival and events organiser, performer, editor and university lecturer. Susie is the author of two poetry collections (Windfalls and Better Houses), the short story collection The Art of Contraception, listed for the Edge Hill Prize, and the novella Arrivals.#138 is her inaugural issue as editor of New Welsh Review.

• Editorial: Susie WildPhoto 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; and more.++ new writing from the Rheidol Prize: For Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting shortlist.

Founded in 1988, New Welsh Review is Wales's foremost literary magazine in English. For over thirty 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.