The Page´s Drift: R.S. Thomas at 80

M. Wynn Thomas

R.S. Thomas is one of the most important poets of the post-war period, ’the most resolute religious poetry this century’ (TLS). His influence on British poetry is enormous, while the variety of his themes has brought him a wide and popular audience …

The Painter’s Quarry: The Art of Peter Prendergast

In a career spanning four decades, Peter Prendergast established himself as one of Britain’s foremost landscape painters, and a formidable painter of portraits and self portraits. The Painter’s Quarry is a valuable and timely collection of essays and full colour prints, tracing the development of one of Wales’ greatest living artists ...

Paradise Park

Karen Ingham

Karen Ingham has overseen a photographic survey of Townhill by seven professional photographers and the people of the estate themselves. Striking images of a place and its people leap from the pages of this beautifully produced book ...

Passing Through

John Tripp

Passing Through was John Tripp’s first collection of poems for six years. His many admirers will be pleased to find that he has lost none of his pithiness, or his characteristic style and rhythm. His...

Paul Muldoon

Tim Kendall


Paul Muldoon is firmly established as among the most challenging of contemporary poets. His work ranges from explorations of his native Ulster, and his life there, to more esoteric subjects such as the discovery of America by a medieval Welsh prince …

A People’s Poetry (trans)

Glyn Jones

Hen benillion (literally ’old verses’) are a unique form of folk poetry in Britain. Dating from the sixteenth century and earlier these short verses, or chains of verses, were composed to be spoken or sung to a harp accompaniment ...

Pestilence

William Owen Roberts

From the elegance and refinement of Cairo’s Madrasa Academy sets out Salah Ibn al Khatib, whose mission is to avenge his wronged family by killing the King of France. In a bizarre and exotic journey the luckless Salah encounters whores and rogues, popes and priests, bishops, kings and queens. And as he penetrates the dark and Boschian heart of Europe something implacable and murderous accompanies him: pestilence ...

Philip Wilson Steer

Ysanne Holt


Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) spent his childhood and youth at Whitchurch near Ross-on-Wye, just three miles from the English-Welsh border, and studied at the Gloucester College of Art. He was at the centre of much...

Picture Welsh Poets

Stuart Smith

From the introduction: "It was whilst studying photography in America that I became interested in uniting image and text. I would write about photographs I had taken, and add other information, related and tangential..."

Plaid Cymru: The Emergence of a Political Party

Laura McAllister

In the first full-length study of its kind, Laura McAllister portrays the emergence of Plaid Cymru in the post-War world from its origins as a disparate association of campaigners and activists to its current status…