How Novelists Work

Maura Dooley

Following the success of How Poets Work comes this guide for would-be and published novelists. Ten contributors share their experiences of how to write a novel, where to begin, how to develop plot, character, structure, imagery, and - importantly - where to end …

How We Dream of the Dead

Vuyelwa Carlin

The poems in Vuyelwa Carlin’s new collection show the richness of diction and the piercing intensity of image that we have come to expect from this distinctive writer ...

Hummadruz

Hilary Llewellyn-Willians

Hummadruz brings together Hilary Llewellyn-Williams’s first two collections, the long-absent The Tree Calendar (1987) and Book of Shadows (1990). The former includes her reputation-making title sequence of poems reflecting on the Celtic calendar, in which each month is represented by a tree ...

The Huntress

Pascale Petit

In Pascale Petit’s highly-charged third collection, a daughter is haunted by her mentally ill mother, and a painful childhood is reimagined through a series of remarkable and passionate transformations... SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE

The Hurricane

Gwyn Parry

The Hurricane is a celebration of the landscape and seascape of north Wales, in particular Anglesey. The energetic poems explore the natural world and man’s response to it. A shipwreck and the hurricane of the...

Id’s Hospit

Sheenagh Pugh

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 ...

Immrama

Catherine Fisher

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 ...

In a Different Light: Fourteen Contemporary Dutch Poets

Eds. Robert Shouton & Robert Minhinnick

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...

In Praise of Navigation: Twentieth Century Dutch Stories

ed. P.C. Evans

From the West Indies to Shanghai, this collection of contemporary short stories opens up a new world of Dutch writing to English language readers...