Competing with the Piano Tuner

Tim Liardet

This collection dazzles with the sophisticated wit we have come to expect from this distinctive poet. Key themes recur: the opening sequence explores the many different sorts of heat -spiritual, sexual, emotional - inspired by the drought of 1995 ...

The Complete Guide to Snowdon

Robert Jones

Much has been written about Snowdonia, or Eryri, but Robert Jones’ book is one of very few devoted to Snowdon itself. In a series of lucid chapters Jones explores the history of the mountain from its geological origins to the present …

Critical Writings on R.S. Thomas

Sandra Anstey

R.S. Thomas is Wales’ most famous living writer. His uncompromising stance on issues concerning Welsh nationalism, as well as his eloquent verse have, over the forty-six years of his career, earned him international acclaim and a vital place in the hearts and minds of his compatriots …

Crossing Over

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis’s wide-ranging interests in visual art, the impact of war and the nature of friendship coalesce in his latest collection, Crossing Over. A number of the poems take their inspiration from great artists, from early religious icons to expressionist canvasses, from a ‘buttery girl’ in a Flemish Landscape to the chainsaw sculptures of David Nash …

Crossing the Bar (Three Plays)

Lucy Gough

There’s a point in between. The sea and the sky, Heaven and Hell, life and death. Where the debris of life carried out on the flow meets the sea and is forced to let go. If you fail to cross over that bar you go down with no soul. So says the mysterious Keeper of the purgatorial cell that is the setting for the poetic and evocative ’Crossing the Bar’ ...

Crystal Spirit

Roger Granelli

Crystal Spirit is the story of David Hicks, arrogant and petulant son of a Welsh collier, set to escape the pit through education, but trapped into marriage and a shopkeeping job he hates. Denied his freedom he grows to maturity through the Labour movement and his experiences as a volunteer in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War....

Dark Edge

Roger Granelli

In the 1984 Miners’ Strike two brothers find themselves in the no man’s land between police line and picket line. A union official, Edwin Bowles is deeply involved in organising striking miners and defending his community. His younger brother Elliott is an ambitious policeman who sees promotion in the strike. The two men must face each other in a conflict in which they must both fight ...

Dat’s Love

Leonora Brito

Dorothy, 59, takes up nude modelling; Dooley Wilson’s funeral in Cardiff; the assassination of J.F.K.; what’s going down at the Blue Bayou; the road that was once a canal; Dido Elizabeth Belle, a slave in England. These are just some of the characters and situations in Leonora Brito’s wide-ranging collection of stories ...

David Jones & Other Wonder Voyagers

Philip Pacey

In David Jones and other Wonder Voyagers, Philip Pacey explores the aesthetics of some of the twentieth century’s leading poets and artists: David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, George Mackay Brown, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Paul Nash, Geoffrey Hill and others. The emphasis of this collection of essays rests on David Jones, whose poetry is now recognised as amongst the most important of the century …