The new New Welsh Review
Saturday 13 September, 2-5.30pm
Join us at elysium gallery in Swansea to celebrate the latest issue of New Welsh Review with readings and live music.
Founded in 1988, New Welsh Review is Wales’ foremost literary magazine in English. For over thirty years, it has been central to the Welsh literary scene in offering a vital outlet for the very best new fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, a forum for critical debate and a rigorous and engaged reviewing culture. Today, New Welsh Review holds true to its original mission statement: to be dynamic, curious, lively and outward-looking, to commemorate the past but to celebrate contemporary excellence and new directions.
We’ll be kicking off with a set from the excellent Swansea band Dark & Twisties at 2pm with readings to follow from issue contributors including Natasha Gauthier, Natalie Ann Holborow, Roberto Pastore, clare e. potter as well as more great music from Ben Wildsmith.
Beautifully redesigned by Olwen Fowler, and now edited by Susie Wild, come and celebrate our inaugural new look, new team edition #138.
https://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/recommended-fiction/products/new-welsh-review-138-summer-2025
Dark & Twisties are Sarah Birch, Kate Ronconi, Sarah Passmore, Danny Kilbride and Huw Rees, a collective made up of members of Lost Tuesday Society, Rag Foundation, and Sarah and the Creepy Uncles. They weave stories old and new into strange and beautiful songs with glorious harmonies and skilful musicianship. They are currently working towards their debut album Ungrateful Women and we can’t wait to hear it.
https://www.facebook.com/DarkandTwistiesMusic
Natasha Gauthier is a Canadian poet and journalist living in Cardiff. The winner of the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize 2025 and the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25, Natasha established and hosts Tiger Bay Poetry at Chapter Arts Centre.
Natalie Ann Holborow is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Award. Little Universe, her third full collection, was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2025. Natalie was a runner-up in the New Welsh Writing Awards Rheidol Prize 2025 for her short story ‘The Man Who Knew Things’.
Roberto Pastore is a poet based in Cardiff. His first collection Hey Bert was highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. His second, Graveyards On Other Planets, is published in 2025.
clare e. potter won the RSL Jerwood Poetry Award 2025 for Cymru. Her Cymraeg pamphlet Nôl Iaith follows new collection Healing the Pack. Her BBC Radio Wales programme The Poet’s Poet was nominated for a 2025 Celtic Media Award.
Ben Wildsmith is a musician, writer, Nation.Cymru columnist, and poet. His memoir about adoption and identity Whose Song to Sing? will be published by Calon in February 2026. He’s been a performing musician since he was fifteen and his album Damn My Sense of Humour will be out in 2026.
You may also like the following events from Elysium:
- This Saturday, 30th August, 11:00 am, Art in the Bar: 9to90 in Swansea
- This Saturday, 30th August, 11:00 am, Ian Andrews - Rythmical: The Particles, the Cave, The Brain and the Body in Swansea
- Next Wednesday, 3rd September, 06:00 pm, Life Drawing At The Bar in Swansea
Also check out other
Arts events in Swansea,
Literary Art events in Swansea,
Entertainment events in Swansea.
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