The Valleys

Anthony Stokes

’The Valleys’ is a beautifully- produced collection of more than a hundred colour photographs selected from several thousand images made during the last five years by Anthony Stokes. Stokes’ pictures reveal a unique and richly-coloured vernacular where the histories of The Valleys’ townscapes and landscapes are overlaid with decades of modifications. The book’s introduction is written by Iain Sinclair, distinguished writer and poet, brought up in Maesteg, now based in London.

The View from Row G: Three Plays

Dannie Abse

Three plays from one of Britain’s leading and best loved literary figures: ’House of Cowards’, ’The Dogs of Pavlov’ and ’Pythagoras (Smith)’. All previously performed in London, these prize-winning plays originate in Abse’s preoccupation with personal and public themes ...

Visibility: New and Selected Poems

Graham Mort

This new collection from Graham Mort selects work from five previous collections and adds a substantial section of new poems. From early lyrics focused in the natural world, he quickly developed his own distinctive narrative style, encompassing a sharp eye for detail, an acute grasp of character, and a wonderful ability to evoke atmosphere and situation …

"A master technician" - Sarah Crown, The Guardian

"Mort has always been a master of technique, of ‘show not tell’, and his poems evoke the noises and smells of other countries, the unique atmosphere of other lives and times." –  Anna Crowe, Edinburgh Review, Jan 08.

“Graham Mort is a deeply engaged poet…This collection is distinguished by the way it conveys Mort’s engagement with people, places, nature, history…hard won, it is the work of a writer whose poems are beautifully wrought and yet underpinned by a sense of life’s inherent complexities. It is, finally, a collection to read and return to for its unpretentious wisdom.” - Wayne Thomas, Planet, Feb 08

Visiting Light

Jean Earle

Jean Earle’s third collection of poetry shines a particular light on its subjects. Here are poems in her own original style, intensely observant of the natural world and the artefacts of everyday life. Familiar, almost...

Visitors

Peter Thabit Jones

Visitors deals with urban south Wales, how its inhabitants are defined by their work, surroundings and society, in poems which are open and sincere, direct and honest. Always lively and accessible in his work, Peter...

The Visitors' Book

John Davies

This is John Davies’ third collection, joint winner of the Poetry Society’s major award - the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize in 1986.