New Welsh Reader 121

New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 winner Peter Goulding writes, with humour and warmth, in his essay 'On Slate', about a group of north-western English punks who escaped the 80s recession to claim dole in Llanberis and climb the rock faces of former slate quarries. Richard John Parfitt's third-placed essay, 'Tales from the Riverbank', captures the cultural zeitgeist centred on Newport's Town Bridge and the legendary music venue TJs, which played host in the 90s to Kurt Cobain. A Carmarthen