Eros and Thanatos

Paul Groves

Sex and Death are the dominant themes of this provocative new collection. With precise formal elegance and ironic flair Groves expertly dissects the angst of contemporary man ...

Eros Proposes a Toast

Tony Conran

This ’Collected Public Poems and Gifts’ illustrates the way in which the Welsh language tradition of composition for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, births, historical public events - has influenced Tony Conran for forty years....

Everything Must Change

Grahame Davies

Everything Must Change is a thoughtful first novel, exploring the place of passionately held, radical beliefs in the modern world. The novel intercuts the story of French philosopher and activist Simone Weil, with that of  21st century campaigner Meinwen Jones, adrift in a post-devolution Wales. Hailed as ‘the first post-national novel’ by Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Meinwen’s inner struggle echoes Simone’s as she devotes herself exclusively to her cause of anti-globalisation and protecting culture…

“Grahame Davies puts flesh and bones on the historical figure with great success…it is a beautiful and assured read.” – Sian Melangell Dafydd, New Welsh Review, March 08

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 ...