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 of fully-functioning political machine…

Plateaux, Gateaux, Chateaux

Mary Davies Parnell

Plateaux, Gateaux, Chateaux is the final volume in Mary Davies Parnell’s popular trilogy of childhood memoirs. Having overcome the hurdle of O levels, Mary is now in the sixth form, a period when her horizons are widened in many directions ...

The Plum Tree

John Gwilym Jones

Published in 1946, Y Goeden Eirin was hailed as a masterly collection by one of the most accomplished exponents of the short story in the Welsh language. This new translation - The Plum Tree - makes the writing of John Gwilym Jones available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Intensely interested in how literature works, Jones produced engaging and accessible stories which bear comparison to Joyce and other modernists ...

Poems for Ghosts

Peter Finch

Ever wondered if there was another way of doing it? Poems for Ghosts takes up where his Selected Poems left off. A com- pendium of modernist plunder, this is no collection for lovers of the...

Poet Portraits/Portreadau Beirdd

Lorraine Bewsey

Poet Portraits, Portreadau Beirdd, Lorraine Bewsey, poets, Wales, pastel, hyper-realist Dannie Abse, Tony Curtis, Grahame Davies, Christine Evans, Catherine Fisher, Peter Finch, Paul Groves, Paul Henry, Gwyneth Lewis, Tim Liardet, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, Patrick McGuinness, Christopher Meredith, Robert Minhinnick, Twm Morys, Pascale Petit, Owen Sheers, Zoë Skoulding, Meic Stephens, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, www.lorrainesartstudio.co.uk

The Poetry Business

Peter Finch

(CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT) The Who, the What, the Where and, most important of all, the How of the Poetry Business Poet, editor and publisher Peter Finch brings his unrivalled knowledge and expertise to bear...

The Poetry of Pembrokeshire

Tony Curtis

This anthology of poems traces a journey around the coast of the old county of Pembrokeshire, from the north to the Carmarthenshire border in the east. The poets in it, natives and visitors, celebrate a region of outstanding natural beauty, of scenic landscapes and coast-lines. They also recognise the unique character of Pembrokeshire: Welsh yet ’a little England beyond Wales’ too ...

The Poetry of R.S. Thomas

John Powell Ward

R.S. Thomas is perhaps the greatest living British poet, the author of twenty collections of poetry, a writer of international repute and the subject of increasing critical and academic interest. The Poetry of R.S. Thomas was the first critical work about him, an invaluable volume which has yet to be surpassed. Its author has taken the opportunity to completely revise and update the book reflecting on both the development of Thomas’ career and the poetry collections of the last ten years …

The Poetry of Snowdonia

Tony Curtis

This anthology collects together for the first time poems about the landscape and coastline of north Wales and its heartland Snowdonia. North Wales is an area of outstanding natural beauty which has been celebrated in both English and Welsh poetry for centuries ...

Poetry Wales: 25 Years

Cary Archard

Since it was founded in 1965, Poetry Wales has consistently published the best new poetry by Welsh writers. This selection of 117 contributions is a fascinating record of twenty-five years of poetry writing. It includes not only...