Edited by Gwen Davies
Featuring Phước Tiến, Susan Karen Burton, Jayne Joso and Deidre Brennan
Female-led literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times in the literary essay, and illustrative panache overall.
Originating in Wales and with international ambition. Here we bring together the best of NWR’s online essays and review-essays within a showcase of new work previewing forthcoming titles from some of this country’s key English-language publishers. Plus, there's new work from Phước Tiến, Susan Karen Burton, Jayne Joso and Deidre Brennan, and 'Hi Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo).
CONTENTS:
EDITORIAL: Gwen Davies
The River Collects Its Debt: Story by Phước Tiến, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý
Powder to the People! The philosophy of Hokkaido capitalist ski bum, Jac Phillips: Biography/oral history by Susan Karen Burton
Hi-Mawari: The lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo)
How Japan Shapes My Work: Jayne Joso
The Banana Banshee: Story by Deidre Brennan, translated from the Irish by the author
Plus review essays by Steven Lovatt on restoring natural and cultural ecologies in the work of Ruth Bidgood, Rae Howells and Carwyn Graves, and JL George on trauma and the magical child in recent novels by Lloyd Markham, Carly Holmes and Vajra Chandrasekera