Dylan Remembered, Volume One: 1914-1934

David N. Thomas


This is the first of two volumes of transcribed interviews about the poet Dylan Thomas. Journalist, broadcaster, and author Colin Edwards interviewed numerous sources close to Thomas for a planned biography of the poet, but he was unable to begin work before his early death …

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 …

The Mature Laurel

Adam Czerniawski

The poets of Poland witnessed sweeping changes throughout the twentieth century: often writing under repressive conditions, or in exile, their country is central to their work. Its plight has caused the very creative act to be questioned and reviewed ...

New Relations

David Kennedy


This ground-breaking study offers an expert commentary on the many and wide-spread changes which have affected British poetry in the last fifteen years. From the changing personnel to a new publishing landscape; from youth culture audiences to new subjects and readings, hardly any aspect of poetry remains untouched …

The Page´s Drift: R.S. Thomas at 80

M. Wynn Thomas

R.S. Thomas is one of the most important poets of the post-war period, ’the most resolute religious poetry this century’ (TLS). His influence on British poetry is enormous, while the variety of his themes has brought him a wide and popular audience …

Paul Muldoon

Tim Kendall


Paul Muldoon is firmly established as among the most challenging of contemporary poets. His work ranges from explorations of his native Ulster, and his life there, to more esoteric subjects such as the discovery of America by a medieval Welsh prince …

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 Presence of the Past

Jeremy Hooker

This new collection of essays explores such urgent concerns in late twentieth century poetry as national and personal identity, and the relationship of history and the present. Jeremy Hooker takes a variety of poets and poems and sets them against each other to produce illuminating insights into the condition of modern poetry as a whole …

Radio Scriptwriting

Sam Boardman-Jacobs, Editor

Radio has given all of us some great moments of drama, moments so engaging that we have escaped from our own world into another, and forgotten, too, that the broadcast world is underlain by finely-tuned writing …

Raymond Williams

Tony Pinkney


Raymond Williams (1921-1988) was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the post-war period. Many know him for his work on mass culture and his left-wing literary criticism, yet he is also the author of six novels, set in his native Welsh border country …