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Just Another Poet: Emily Vanderploeg

Taz Rahman interviews Emily Vanderploeg (Strange Animals, Parthian 2022) for Just Another Poet.

NEW EDITION: Unspeakable Beauty

The new edition of Unspeakable Beauty by Georgia Carys Williams is available for pre-order today, out in Feb 2026 with a lovely new cover...

‘a lyrical, compelling and addictive read’ — Sophie Buchaillard, Nation.Cymru

The brand new edition of Unspeakable Beauty by Georgia Carys Williams will be out in February 2026.  

Delve into the story of Violet Hart who had always dreamt of becoming something extraordinary: a ballet icon as famous as Margot Fonteyn. But when a magnetic stranger starts to pull at her strings, Violet’s world is sent into a tailspin. Unspeakable Beauty is a beautiful, poetic debut novel of learning to take lead, and finding power in your own voice. Pre-order your copy.

OUT IN THE WILDS: New Welsh Review in Bookshops now!

Great to see New Welsh Review on the shelves at Book Space Cardiff, let me know where else you spot it!

UNBOXED! NWR138

 

Look what’s just arrived! My first issue of New Welsh Review, beautifully redesigned by Olwen Fowler with the cover image by Jon Pountney! Come and celebrate the new issue with us on Saturday 13th September at Elysium in Swansea 2-5.30pm featuring great music from Dark and Twisties Music and Ben Wildsmith and readings from some of this issue’s wonderful contributors.
More details coming soon…
In shops and available to order now…

Catch Christina Thatcher at Placeholder Poetry in Southampton next month...

 

New Welsh Review: Summer 2025

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

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. ++ 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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Just Another Poet featuring Natasha Gauthier

Just Another Poet channel's latest 'Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star' feature is Natasha Gauthier, winner of the this year's Poetry Wales Award and the Borzello Poetry Prize.

GIG ALERT: Tiger Bay Poetry with Jeremy Dixon and Christina Thatcher

 

New Welsh Writing Awards: The Winners!

Huge congratulations to Natasha Gauthier, Winner of the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize – winning a £500 development publishing contract with us – announced at our New Welsh Writing Awards ceremony in Abergavenny last night. It was a great pleasure to judge this award with Niall Griffiths. And congratulations to all the shortlisted poets whose work you can read in our next issue (138).

Also, many congratulations to Sam Christie who won the The Rheidol Prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards with his story ‘The Widowmaker’ (judged by former NWR editor Gwen Davies and author David Lloyd Owen). Winning a £1000 development publishing contract with us.

The two runners-ups prizes went to Natalie Ann Holborow with her story ‘The Man Who Knew Things’ and Sybilla Harvey with her story ‘The Flattening’. Both winning a creative residency with Gladstone's Library and Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre.
You can read all three stories in our next issue of New Welsh Review.

WORKSHOP: Christina Thatcher