Books
11 Books in books (I)Id’s Hospit
Sheenagh Pugh
£6.95 Paperback (ISBN:1854111779)
With this collection of poetry Sheenagh Pugh confirms her place at the forefront of modern British verse. A subtle and adept technique, combined with a sharp wit, keen eye and pointed sense of humour, creates poems of memorable cadence and theme ...
Poetry
Immrama
Catherine Fisher
£3.95 Paperback (ISBN:1854110039)
Immrama is an old Irish word meaning ’voyages to islands’, and many of the poems in this volume are journeys to islands of the past, to ancient sites, and into religion ...
Poetry
In a Different Light: Fourteen Contemporary Dutch Poets
Eds. Robert Shouton & Robert Minhinnick
£9.95 Paperback
In response to In een ander licht, the Dutch anthology of poems from Wales, comes In a Different Light, a ground-breaking collection of work by fourteen contemporary Dutch poets who have made continental reputations but who wait to be discovered in the English language...
Poetry
In Praise of Navigation: Twentieth Century Dutch Stories
ed. P.C. Evans
£9.99 Paperback (ISBN:1-85411-416-6)
From the West Indies to Shanghai, this collection of contemporary short stories opens up a new world of Dutch writing to English language readers...
Anthology
Ingrid’s Husband
Paul Henry
£7.99 Paperback (ISBN:9781854114389)
Here is a book of ghosts, from the mysterious traveller in the title poem who, mistaken for another man, starts to crave his new alter ego, to the first person of ‘Between Two Bridges’, Henry’s long poem on Newport, who follows his teenage ghost across the city for a night:
He pulls away. The wind puts its lips to an arcade.
A seagull on a barber’s pole waits to open its blades.
“Ingrid’s Husband showcases Henry’s eye for striking imagery …Ingrid’s Husband succeeds as a powerful meditation on loss, and its tentative, never fully realised, attempts at renewal are always affecting…there’s more than enough fine writing in this volume to reward sustained attention.” – Richard Marggraf Turley, New Welsh Review, Feb 08
“ Henry’s poems work through images deftly juxtaposed; they evoke a world of fleeting memories and echo the processes of intuitive thought…“Paul Henry can be mischievously perceptive of the danger lurking behind appearances.” Poetry Salzburg, April 08
“Paul Henry’s lyrical poems achieve perfect pitch, matching sound to sense with, seemingly a minimum of effort. In Ingrid’s Husband, his fifth collection from Seren, musicality of line is evident throughout.” Alice Kavounas, Poetry Review, April 08
Poetry
Intermittent Journals
Dannie Abse
£14.95 Hardback (ISBN:1854111086)
£6.95 Paperback (ISBN:1854111094)
"More, please Dannie" said The Sunday Times on the publication of ’Journals from the Ant-Heap’ in 1986. ’Intermittent Journals’ answers that call, bringing back into print that book and adding to it ’Notes Mainly from the Clinic’ (1981), unpublished new jottings 1987-1992, and a specially commissioned journal for 1993, Abse’s seventieth birthday year …
Biography
Intimate Portraits: Contemporary Responses to the Theme of Portraiture
Alison Lloyd
£9.95 Paperback (ISBN:1854111531)
The word ’portrait’ is, to many people, evocative of those posed formal studies of the nobility adorning the walls of stately homes across Europe and beyond. Yet portraiture in its broadest sense surely encompasses all attempts at depicting the human form, character and condition...
Art
Into Painting: Brendan Stuart Burns
David Alston
£14.99 Paperback (ISBN:978-1-85411-446-4)
A small, isolated beach in Pembrokeshire is the almost exclusive subject of the paintings of Brendan Burns. His aim is to record, explore and interpret the constant change of shoreline, tide, horizon, climate and rock pools through a semi-abstract style which references artists from Monet to Pollock …
Art
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Invisible Times
Mike Jenkins
£3.95 Paperback (ISBN:0907476589)
Invisible Times sees Mike Jenkins developing further the picture of working-class society in south Wales which he presented so forcefully in his previous book, Empire of Smoke. His use of language and dialect moves still...
Poetry
