Falling Back

Christine Evans

Falling Back is a single long poem by one of Wales’ most acclaimed new poets. It is the moving story of a woman’s attempts to come to terms with the death of her husband, a shepherd in north Wales ...

Feet in Chains

Kate Roberts

Spanning a forty-year period ending during the First World War, Feet in Chains is a compelling saga of family life in the slate quarries of north Wales, a novel which ranks alongside How Green Was My Valley in the canon of Welsh literature …

Fellini Beach

Tim Liardet

The diverse themes and textures of Tim Liardet’s second collection of poems are intricately wrought and almost operatic in scope and intensity. The poems of section 1 are not casual, ’occasional’ poems, but dramas with...

Fishlock’s Sea Stories

Trevor Fishlock

In ’Fishlock’s Sea Stories’, the popular broadcaster and author Trevor Fishlock turns his attention to Wales’s maritime history. In his elegant and informative style Fishlock explores the history of Wales’s relationship with the sea, from shipbuilding and seafaring to smuggling and emigration ...

Flight Patterns

John Davies

Against backcloths which include Utah where he lived for a year and the Dee estuary of north Wales, his home area, Davies’ fascination with other people has sparked a diversity of forms, voices, stories. Underlying his variety, there is too an urgently sustained focus ...

Flotsam

Frances Williams

Flotsam is a first book of poems by a young writer already finding her voice. It is an exploration of Frances Williams’ world through word and visual image, illustrated by her paintings, drawings and collages ...

Flowers & Fables: A Welsh Herbal

Jocelyne Lawton

In ’Flowers & Fables’ Jocelyne Lawton reminds us of a time when, through a mixture of religious belief, country superstition and medical lore, flowers and herbs had an essential place in everyday life. This book recognises a revival of contemporary interest as modern consumers look for organic and holistic approaches to daily life ...

The Fluent Moment

Ruth Bidgood

The Fluent Moment is Ruth Bidgood’s seventh collection and the first since 1992’s well-received Selected Poems. Her intense response to the landscape of Powys combines with a constant curiosity about the inhabitants of the place,...

Folding the Real

Fiona Sampson

Surviving a murder attempt generates the clarity, compression and pure celebratory drive of this book’s title sequence of fourteen syllabic sonnets. These form the spinal cord of the entire collection, from which nerve endings reach out into a dizzying range of poetic matter...