Poetry
11 Books in poetry (L)The Last Candles
Tony CurtisThe Last Candles confirms Tony Curtis’s stature as a poet. In it he develops his prize-winning narrative style, bringing a vast range of contemporary and historical perspectives into play in poems private and public about...
Late Thoughts in March
John Powell WardWard’s poems have a bracing freshness. He is extremely aware of the basis of language, of the alphabet as an abstract, symbolic and sacred presence, and he is wary of pinning down experience with it....
Laying Out the Body
Lucien JenkinsThese poems by Lucien Jenkins often have the quality of lucid dreams, for they are at once vivid and particular and charged with emotion. In ’Dog’ the past literally hounds one; in ’Less’ the earth begins to shrink...
Leslie Norris: The Complete Poems
Meic StephensEdited by Meic Stephens and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, this landmark publication of more than 300 poems reflects the sixty plus year publishing life of the late Leslie Norris, who died in 2007, aged 86. Norris was best known as a nature poet and elegist of passion and rare expression …
Letter to Patience
John HaynesWINNER OF 2006 COSTA POETRY AWARD
Letter to Patience is a book-length poem in iambic pentameter, set in ‘Patience’s Parlour’ a small, mud-walled bar in northern Nigeria in 1993 – a time of political unrest.The writer of the letter has returned to Britain, with his Nigerian wife and children, to nurse his dying father.
… “it also needs to be said, that this is another publishing triumph for Seren Books. It would seem that Welsh publishing is in a healthier state than London.” Parameter, April 08
The Lie of Horizons
Desmond GrahamThe Lie of Horizons is Desmond Graham’s first full collection of poems. Varied in scope and range, these poems take on subjects as personal as his parents and as public as ’Mrs.Thatcher’s England’...
Living Next to Leda
Barbara BentleyThis is a remarkable first collection of poems by Barbara Bentley. Her distinctively witty voice brings us the up-to-date versions of the females of mythology. ’Noah’s Wife’ is plagued by her DIY-mad, boat-building spouse...
Long Haul Travellers
Sheenagh PughElisions, displacements, journeys, memories of journeys, dreams: this new collection of poems by Sheenagh Pugh has a pervasive elegiac quality. Known for her incisive narratives, many of these new poems work more by implication than explication …
"Pugh is a cool, elegant poet. Her often quirky elisions and voyages have a quiet poignancy” Poetry Wales, July 2009
“Long-Haul Travellers is a book of nuance and experience, in which each poem goes the distance.” New Welsh Review, July 2009.
Sheenagh Pugh’s poems make you fall in love with objectivity. If she uses ‘I’ anywhere you can be sure it’s a persona or a monologue in character of some personage. You will look in vain for clues as to the self behind the poems. But her consistency in this regard inspires confidence in her command, her professionalism… The poems have an oblique clarity that is very winning.” The North, July 2009.
The Looters
Robert MinhinnickThe Looters, his fifth collection of poetry, confirms Robert Minhinnick’s reputation as one of the most original poets writing today. The startling imagery, the rich texture of his language, the sheer craftsmanship of his work...
Love from Wales
Tony Curtis’Who made an ache under my rib?’ Asks the poet on the first page of Love from Wales, and just what makes the Welsh a passionate race? This selection of poetry and prose on the theme of love by Welsh poet Tony Curtis and novelist Sian James offers some lively answers ...
