Editorial: Susie Wild

Photo 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.

Susie Wild is Parthian’s publishing editor specialising in poetry and fiction. With Parthian since 2007, she’s worked with with many wonderful writers and translators including Julia Bell, Zoë Brigley, Mari Ellis Dunning, Rhian Elizabeth, Amaia Gabantxo, Richard Gwyn, Natalie Ann Holborow, Rae Howells, Tristan Hughes, Patrick Jones, Lloyd Markham, Miren Agur Meabe and Richard Owain Roberts. Following an MA in Creative Writing from Swansea University and an MA in Journalism from Goldsmiths, she has also built a portfolio career in the arts as a journalist, festival and events organiser, performer, editor and university lecturer. Susie is the author of two poetry collections (Windfalls and Better Houses), the short story collection The Art of Contraception, listed for the Edge Hill Prize, and the novella Arrivals.

#138 is her inaugural issue as editor of New Welsh Review.