A Newport Journal index
Laura Wainwright
Laura Wainwright is from Newport, Wales. Her first poetry pamphlet will be published by Green Bottle Press in 2021. She is also author of New Territories in Modernism: Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-49 (University of Wales Press).
A Newport Journal will be published monthly.
Along the Severn-estuary shoreline of the Gwent Levels, archaeologists have discovered the footprints of ancient people, both adults and children. Buried for thousands of years under strata of mud and silt, the footprints are temporarily revealed and then erased again by the tide.
I recently found myself scrolling through the comments section of a local online news article. The headline read: ‘Carpark full at Newport beauty spot’. Police had expressed their concern that people were flouting the lockdown rule to exercise close to home.
I had an idea of what I would find. ‘I didn’t know there were any beauty spots in Newport’, the first commentator remarked…
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Keeping a journal is an act of endurance. It is easier to decide that your life and experiences are too mundane to merit recording, your observations and reflections irrelevant, egoistic or passé. And there are always other demands on your time and attention – economic, familial, social, technological…