Cover: detail from Turf or Stone, Margiad Evans (Library of Wales). Image by Peggy Whistler. By permission of Parthian.

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REGULARS See Richard Gwyn and Horatio Clare at Hay

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Editor

INSIDE

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F I CT I ON Slaughterhouse Field Maria Donovan’s response to Margiad Evans’ TurforStone

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The Elephant’s Wife Roshi Fernando

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Outer Magnolia Angharad Penrhyn Jones

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Pulp Kitchen Gee Williams on the Wallander phenomenon

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Trade Winds Euan Thorneycroft’s view from the agent’s desk

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Rich Text Patrick McGuinness on writing his Ceausescu-era campus novel

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FEATURES Maps of the Dead Kirsti Bohata on Tristan Hughes and rural gothic

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Page to Stage, Past to Present Dai George on adapting Gwyn Thomas

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European City Tales Helen Constantine on short fiction for the citybreaker

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POEMS Did Cavemen Build Sandcastles? Emily Hinshelwood

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Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloidus Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum Stakedriver Night Feeding Elyse Fenton

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Bob’s Dogs Red Rosette Hannibal Hilary Menos

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Threshold Ruth Bidgood

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Two Trains If You Smell Gas Judy Brown

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