The Chosen Ground

Neil Corcoran


For more than twenty years poetry from Northern Ireland has been amongst the most exciting in Britain. Beginning with Seamus Heaney a wave of young poets has explored the political and social situation there in there in invigorating and inventive style …

The Chosen People

Grahame Davies

The histories of the Welsh people and the Jewish people have entwined in a number of ways over the centuires. ’The Chosen People’ uses extracts from Welsh literature to show the two nations have interacted both in Wales and elsewhere ...

Christmas in Wales

Dewi Roberts

Celebrate Christmas the Welsh way in the company of some of the country’s leading writers, past and present. Christmas mass, the nativity play, turkey and plum pudding, the Mari Lwyd, presents, the weather, the shopping…

Civilised Airs

Steve Griffiths

One of very few English language poets to come out of Anglesey, Steve Griffiths is married and has a young son. Civilised Airs divides into poems of love and those of social concern. The former show a delicacy and tenderness in the personal world of the poet, the latter a controlled anger at the position of fragile human beings in a hard and disinterested society ...

Clay Hill

Tim Liardet

Clay Hill is an exciting first collection which explores the collapse of the remnants of our Victorian and Edwardian past in poems of authentic atmosphere, of beautifully sustained movements and silences. More personal poems exist in this context, relieved by the poet’s humour, and his feel for words and their texture ...

Clough Williams Ellis

Jonah Jones


The architect Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) is probably best known as the creator of Portmeirion, the Italianate village known as ’the Xanadu of Wales’ and the setting of the cult television series, The Prisoner ...

A Clwyd Anthology

Dewi Roberts

From the Airbus at Broughton to the castle at Rhuddlan; from the resorts of the coast to the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen; from the farms of the Vales to the mountains of Hiraethog; from the English of Wrexham to the Welsh of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, the county of Clwyd - the soon to disappear Clwyd - encompasses hugely differing cultures within its boundaries ...

Coal

Tony Curtis

For the first time the literature of mining has been gathered together in a book which celebrates the industry while it still exists.
Contributors include miners themselves and writers moved or inspired by the industry ...

Cohabitation

Kate Bingham

A brisk wit and intelligence characterises these poems by Kate Bingham. Her subjects are friends, family, work, the experiences of any day, but her keen and compassionate focus brings these moments vividly to life....