#welsh writers

[goosewaxjournal]

New post on Goosewax! Check out "Seafoam" by Welsh writer Kit Wynter:

Seafoam

“This first body, its crystal form lay glittering in the midday sun, withered fingers grasping the sand, twitched.” Story by Kit Wynter.

And click here to submit your own work!

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The signs as Welsh writers:

Aries: Gruffydd Robert

Taurus: Welsh translators

Gemini: Jon Mitchell

Cancer: John Prise

Leo: 21st-century Welsh writers

Virgo: Welsh romantic fiction writers

Libra: Dennis Coslett

Scorpio: Elisha Beadles

Sagittarius: Joshua Parry

Capricorn: Writers from Cardiff

Aquarius: W. S. Jones

Pisces: List of Welsh-language authors

[aconitum-napellus]

I'm very happy that the revised edition of Seaside Towns is out now with Cockatrice Books. You can buy through the website, where you can also buy my previous novel, Of the Ninth Verse.

For Anatoliy Yetvushenko, émigré and physicist, it should be the perfect holiday. Llandudno calls to his mind the Black Sea holidays of his childhood in the Ukraine, while his companion, Francis, is just beginning to awaken to the possibilities of male sexual love in the first years following its legalisation. But Anatoliy has memories of an earlier holiday in Lyme Regis in the 1950s, where his previous lover, who now lives near Llandudno, left him to make a loveless marriage. With its awareness of the landscape of the north coast of Wales, of quantum physics and of deep time, this novel reflects the search for intimacy and fulfilment in the shadow of political tyranny and sexual persecution.

‘A vivid and moving description of memory, loss and eventual redemption, a wise, compassionate exploration of human vulnerability and human worth.’

Rob Mimpriss

[Image description: the cover of a novel, pastel blue with a pink roller coaster track on it, called Seaside Towns by A. L. Reynolds, published by Cockatrice Books.]

[uwlittlemags]

A look through the Winter 1948 issue of the Welsh Review.

Like many little magazines, the Welsh Review served both as a connector for and an expression of a particular literary community--in this case, Anglophone Welsh writers. The writers and editors of the Welsh Review had to struggle with the problem of expressing Welsh literary culture using the language of Wales’ colonizers. In his editorial for the first issue, editor Gwyn Jones defended his decision to publish the work of these writers:

“If they have lost their language they have not lost their nationality, and fiercely resent any suggestion that they have … I have been told the greater the success of the WELSH REVIEW the worse it will be for Wales … the opposite is true. Can any work be more useful to Wales, as things are, than to keep the English-speaking Welshman bound to their homeland? And can it be done better than by fostering and encouraging in what we expect to be a large following an awareness of their Welshness?”

Information and editorial quote from The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. More information about the Little Magazine Collection here.

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