Academe

Paul Groves

Paul Groves’s first volume confirms the promise which has marked him out as one of the most engaging poetic voices of recent years. Crystalline, deft, and exhilaratingly ironic, these poems deserve a wide audience ...

Act One Wales

Phil Clark

This substantial collection of one act plays from Wales charts the rise of Welsh Drama from the 1950s to the present. From the Dylan Thomas classic, ’Return Journey’, to the work of established names likes Charles Way and Frank Vickery, to the more recent plays by young writers like Edward Thomas and Ian Rowlands, this book presents a significant overview of the drama of our era …

An Affair of the Heart

Clare Morgan

Each story in An Affair of the Heart questions the apparently romantic title through its exploration of the enigmatic state of mind known as love ...

After the First Death: An Anthology of Wales and War in the Twentieth Century

Tony Curtis

This anthology contains writing by many of the greatest authors of Wales. From Wilfred Owen and David Jones, Dylan Thomas and Dannie Abse to Christopher Meredith and Gillian Clarke, it spans a century which saw both the barbarism of mechanised warfare and the development of mass communication, mass literacy and a flourishing of creative endeavour ...

Altered States

Catherine Fisher

The fate of an Italian icon damaged by floods, a Victorian skeleton, and a Vampire Ballet are amongst the many unusual subjects of the poems in this new collection by Catherine Fisher. Lyrical grace combined with a sharp eye for imagery and a precise use of language are her hallmarks ...

Alun Lewis: A Life

John Pikoulis

Alun Lewis (1915-1944) is one of the most impressive and important writers of the century. The leading author of World War Two, perhaps the leading poet, he is still an influential figure, particularly in his native Wales ...

Alun Lewis: Collected Poems

Ed. Cary Archard

Alun Lewis (1915-1944), the remarkable poet and story writer, died, aged 28, in Burma during the Second World War. Some critics see him as the last of the great Romantic poets, a twentieth century Keats. Others view him as the bridge between pre-war poets like Auden and Yeats to post-war poets such as Hughes and Gunn …

"Always, one feels the pressure of integrity behind his writing. And in elegising Lewis´s promise we should not overlook his actual achievement …"

M Wynn Thomas, The Guardian, Feb 2008; Click HERE to read the full review.

Alun Lewis: Letters to my Wife

Gweno Lewis

Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was one of the few great British writers of the Second World War. His early death at the age of twenty-eight robbed Wales of its most promising poet and story writer …

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Ancestral Lines

Linden Peach

Ancestral Lines explores poetry written away from the economic and cultural centre by six poets: Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, Douglas Dunn, Gillian Clarke, Sally Roberts Jones and Oliver Reynolds. Linden Peach sees them all as responsible for mapping locales: their work, he claims, is a voyage of geographical discovery for the literary world …

Animaculture

Hilary Llewellyn-Willians

This eagerly awaited collection by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams is her first since 1990’s acclaimed Book of Shadows. Her style is intensely lyrical and imaginative but also finely controlled and tempered by a keen intelligence ...