Ménage à Trois

Paul Groves

Following the substantial critical acclaim for Academe, his previous volume, Paul Groves has produced a book which surpasses even that high standard. Its contents, whose alternating rhyme and free verse lengths are balanced precisely, explore...

The Man in the Middle

Derek Bevan

A referee can’t make a bad game good, but he can make a good game bad. Based on this assumption, Derek Bevan became one of the world’s best - and best known - rugby union referees....

Marble Sky

Vuyelwa Carlin

Vuyelwa Carlin has established a reputation as a highly distinctive stylist. Published internationally and instantly recognisable, her poems feature an intricate, mosaic-like technique. Marble Sky, her third collection, is in three varied sections. It opens...

The Marching Bands

Desmond Graham

Significant events of the twentieth century, be they public and tragic or private and joyful, have inspired Desmond Graham to write this moving collection. The book features a number of elegies to the great poets...

Margiad Evans

Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan


Novelist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories, Margiad Evans (1909-1959) was one of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth century. Having published three novels, two autobiographical works and two volumes of poetry during her life, her relatively slim output belies considerable achievement in the face of intermittent poverty and the illness of her later years ...

Mary Morgan (Three Plays)

Greg Cullen

’Mary Morgan’ is the story of a young servant girl seduced and then betrayed by her master’s son. Pregnant and in despair, she is trapped into actions that have ultimately tragic consequences ...

Mary Webb

Gladys Mary Coles


Novelist, poet and mystic, Mary Webb (1881-1927) is an author undergoing revival and revaluation. Her most famous novel, Precious Bane, won the Prix Femina of 1924 and was recently televised. While her work was admired by Rebecca West, John Buchan, de la Mare and others during her lifetime, popular succes came only after her death ...

Masks

Duncan Bush

In this ambitious new book of poems, Duncan Bush uses a glittering variety of voices and poetic personae. His characters include a South African ex-mercenary, a Welsh hill farmer’s widow, a Cardiff garage mechanic, tourists,...

The Mature Laurel

Adam Czerniawski

The poets of Poland witnessed sweeping changes throughout the twentieth century: often writing under repressive conditions, or in exile, their country is central to their work. Its plight has caused the very creative act to be questioned and reviewed ...

The Meaning of Flight

Christopher Meredith

This new collection of poems is Meredith’s first since Snaring Heaven from the early nineties. Meredith is well-known as a novelist, and his poetry shares some of the qualities that make his fiction so memorable:...