The Never-Never

Kathryn Gray

The Never-Never is the dazzling debut collection of poetry by one of the UK’s most distinctive new voices. From joyriders in the rain-lashed back streets and housing estates of Wales, to London, California and beyond,...

Ruth Bidgood:New and Selected Poems

Ruth Bidgood

This New and Selected Poems by Ruth Bidgood features work from her five early collections, starting with The Given Time (1972) through Kindred (1986) along with selections from her more recent volumes, The Fluent Moment (1996) and Singing to Wolves (2000). The final section is devoted to over fifty pages of new poems…

New Relations

David Kennedy


This ground-breaking study offers an expert commentary on the many and wide-spread changes which have affected British poetry in the last fifteen years. From the changing personnel to a new publishing landscape; from youth culture audiences to new subjects and readings, hardly any aspect of poetry remains untouched …

A Night on the Lash

Graham Mort

Like a painter, Graham Mort builds through a steady accumulation of precise and beautifully-observed details. The pictures that emerge are often surprising, even shocking in their effects. Mort is adept at imbuing a landscape with the moods and memories of its inhabitants...

Non-Return

Dai Vaughan

A hugely energetic rumination on politics, family and fiction, Non-Return traces the life of a technical draughtsman and writer, following his efforts to reconcile his art and his everyday life. Interspersed with exquisitely-written short fictions, this is a novel about fatherhood, work, memory, the disempowerment of the individual, and the significance of protest - most keenly explored in the death of the narrator’s wife, a resident of the Greenham Common peace camp ...

North by South: New and Selected Poems

John Davies

John Davies’ new book, North by South, offers a choice selection from his substantial body of work. From the slate quarries of north Wales to the steelworks town of his youth in south Wales to...

Not Falling

Desmond Graham

The tightrope walker in the cover painting by Macke is symbolic of the author’s point of view in this new collection of poems. It is a humorous acknowledgement of the precarious position of the artist...