New Welsh Review

16/12/2025

New Welsh Review #139 Journeys, coming February 2026

Order your copy through the Parthian website.

Cover art: ‘Proper Treats’ by Zena Blackwell

03/12/2025

It is great to see #138 guest poet Clare Potter as Poet of the Month here! You can also read one of her poems from our latest issue as part of this selection (‘The Land Explores Us’).

The December Poet of the Month on www.seventhquarrypress.com is the Welsh poet Clare E. Potter.

Clare E. Potter is a bilingual poet and radio presenter who studied an MA in Mississippi and taught in New Orleans for a decade. Her BBC Radio Wales program The Poets’ Poet was nominated for a 2025 Celtic Media Award. She is a trainee poetry therapy practitioner who facilitates creative projects with community groups, and is driven by the belief that poetry can be a force for personal and social change. She mentors other artists and writers, gave a TedX talk and won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. Other awards include two Literature Wales writing bursaries and Arts Council Funding for a poetry/jazz collaboration to respond to the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. She’s translated for National Poet of Wales, and was a Hay Festival Writer at Work.

Clare has had various writing residencies including the Landmark Trust, Moravian Academy, Wales Arts Review and has collaborated with artists to create poetry installations in hospitals, on pavements and parks. She directed a BBC documentary, The Wall and the Mirror, about her village barber which encouraged community action to save the local miner’s institute. Her two recent poetry books are Healing the Pack supported with a grant from the Society of Authors and Welsh language pamphlet Nôl Iaith. Earlier this year, she was an ambassador for the Welsh language at Llif a European languages retreat with focus on ecology, climate emergency and culture. Clare is this year’s Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Poetry Award winner for Wales and was recently appointed as Artist in Service for Rhondda Cynon Taf.

21/10/2025

Join us for our Autumn Party at Storyville Books in Pontypridd this Thursday 🍂🍂 kicking off at 7:15pm with readings from the contributors of Issue #138 and special guest Crystal Jeans.

11/10/2025

It is great to see our latest issue in the magazine lover's mecca, Casa Magazines NYC!

16/09/2025

What a fantastic launch we had in Swansea on Saturday afternoon. Thanks to all who came along to celebrate with us, and to our wonderful readers and music makers: Dark & Twisties, Natalie Ann Holborow, Roberto Pastore, Emma Baines, Rhian Thomas, Natasha Gauthier, Abeer Ameer, clare e. potter and Ben Wildsmith!

15/09/2025

I have great admiration of Abeer Ameer's work. Here is her reading of her long poem 'Srebrenica, Town of Silver and Salt' which was written to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide in which 8372 mostly Bosnian Muslim men and boys were captured, killed and buried in mass graves by Bosnian Serb Forces in July 1995. The poem is also published in the latest issue of New Welsh Review ( #138) and Abeer read it for us at Saturday's launch in Swansea. Abeer reads the piece on her YouTube channel and has included some photos of her trip to Bosnia and the visit to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre. – Susie

A poem by Abeer Ameer written to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide of July 1995.The poem was commissioned by Remembering Srebr...

08/09/2025

We’re really looking forward to the Dark & Twisties playing at our launch in Swansea on Saturday! Come along! Readings from 2pm (Natalie Ann Holborow and Roberto Pastore). Then the band, and then readings from more fantastic contributors (Emma Baines, Rhian Thomas, Natasha Gauthier, Abeer Ameer and clare e. potter) and more great music from Ben Wildsmith. We wrap up at 5.30pm but the bar is open before and after for hot and cold drinks.

01/09/2025

It’s publication daayy! New Welsh Review #138 is here and doesn’t it look stunning 🤩

29/08/2025

Join us for the launch of the fresh new edition of the New Welsh Review and celebrate all the wonderful writers featured within Issue #138. Saturday the 13th of September at the Elysium Gallery Swansea at 2pm, with readings and live music. See you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/1413796283062124