SUMMER 2012 £5.99 NEWWELSHREVIEW.COM #96

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Islands on the Edge: St Kilda Kaite O’Reilly on the Cultural Olympiad On Mohammed Farid Street Three Young US Women Poets Reviews: Samantha Wynne Rhydderch and Gee Williams

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Cover photo by John Harrison: Elephant Island Point, Antarctica

REGULARS

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See Adain Avion, Cultural Olympiad, London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games

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Editor

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Pulp Kitchen Matthew David Scott on Occupy USA

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Trade Winds Euan Thorneycroft’s news from an agent’s desk

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Rich Text Kaite O’Reilly on her project InWaterI’mWeightless for the Cultural Olympiad

ESSAYS

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St Kilda The first in John Harrison’s new series, Islands on the Edge

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Skipping to the Apocalypse Sarah Howe on young US poets Elyse Fenton, Dora Malech and Darcie Dennigan

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Of Dinosaurs and Theoretical Corsetry Richard Poole on Literary Criticism in Wales

CREATIVE

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On Mohammed Farid Street Grahame Davies’ nonfiction response to David M Beddoe’s TheLostMameluke,ATale ofEgypt

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Eric ’n’ Ernie Story by Tony Bianchi

POEMS

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Winter Arriving Early Marianne Burton

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Hillside Pascale Petit & Xiao Kaiyu

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Sheep Get Inquisitive After a Meteor Strike, Stanbury Moor Harry Man

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Proportion Fat Heroin Song Carrie Etter

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Seep Jacob’s Island Coming of Age Philip Gross

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