new welsh review #94

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Music, authors and the digital world Jim Perrin on outsider novelists Recent graphic novels Nonfiction by John Barnie Reviews by Roshi Fernando & Catherine Merriman

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Cover: detail from A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind by Christien Gholson (Parthian). Image by Chris Iliff.

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REGULARS See ‘Around in the Reserve’ by Karen Havskov Jensen from APlaceintheCountry, SixartistsfromDenmark

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Editor

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Pulp Kitchen Rhian Jones on music, authors and the digital world

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

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Rich Text Hayley Long on writing to the teenage chicklit formula

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ESSAYS What Pencils Were Made to Create David Thorpe on recent graphic novels

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Slate Country Fictions Jim Perrin on three ‘outsider’ novels of the past sixty years

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Yes and No Jane MacNamee on grief and belongings

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CREATIVE July in Ceredigion John Barnie’s response in nonfiction to RS Thomas’ BlwyddynynLl¥n

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The Feed Story by Christien Gholson

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Tourism and Tear Gas Lewis Davies

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POEMS For a Garden Slug Ciarán O’Rourke

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Things That Make the Heart Beat Faster Matthew Francis

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