New Welsh Review is a literary magazine published in Wales . Its primary language is English , with brief excerpts of texts indicated in the original Welsh .
7-464: Founded in 1988 as successor to The Welsh Review (1939–1948), Dock Leaves , and The Anglo-Welsh Review (1949–1988), New Welsh Review is Wales's foremost literary magazine in English. It publishes articles on literature, theatre, and the arts, as well as interviews, reviews, original short stories, and poetry. From the time its initial issues were published, New Welsh Review has been central to
14-428: A coverage of all aspects of Welsh life but also enabled a series of reviews editors to take on a substantial editorial role and gradually move to co-editing before taking over as main editors. This process is well documented in memoirs by Gillian Clarke Roland Mathias and Greg Hill. The magazine had been printed since its early days and eventually published by Five Arches Press and ceased publication in 1988 following
21-481: A reference to the fact that it was published in Pembroke Dock, the town in which its founding editor Raymond Garlick lived and taught in the local school. He published an account of the early years of the magazine in 1971. The name was changed in 1957 to reflect the editor’s work in defining a tradition of writing known as ‘ Anglo-Welsh Literature ’, prefigured in an editorial to the magazine in 1952 expressing
28-648: Is published quarterly in Aberystwyth with core financial support from the Welsh Books Council . In addition, it receives sponsorship from Aberystwyth University , the University of Glamorgan , and Cardiff University . The Anglo-Welsh Review The Anglo-Welsh Review was a literary and cultural magazine published in Wales between 1949 and 1988. Its original title was ″Dock Leaves″,
35-516: The Welsh Arts Council , it had become more substantial both in terms of the number of pages and the breadth of its coverage of Welsh cultural life. The magazine was subsequently edited by Gillian Clarke who joined Roland Mathias as Reviews Editor in 1973 and became its editor in 1976. Greg Hill joined her as Reviews Editor in 1980 and himself became editor in 1985. The growth of the book review section indicates an attempt to provide
42-549: The Welsh literary scene. Its focus is on Welsh writing in English, but the journal's outlook also features broad UK and international contexts. Contributors include some of the greatest Welsh and international writers and thinkers: Dannie Abse , Paul Muldoon , P. D. James , Emyr Humphreys , Leslie Norris , Gwyneth Lewis , Les Murray , Rachel Trezise , Niall Griffiths , Owen Sheers , Terry Eagleton , Edna Longley , Byron Rogers , Gillian Clarke and Paul Groves . The magazine
49-414: The hope that “someone will persuade a publishing house to put forth a badly needed anthology of Anglo-Welsh poetry”. Garlick, together with fellow founder of the magazine Roland Mathias , eventually published such an anthology. The name change also placed the magazine in a tradition with ″The Welsh Review″ (1939-1948). Roland Mathias took over the editorship in 1960 by which time, financially supported by
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