The Last Candles

Tony Curtis


The 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 Ward

Ward’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 Jenkins

These 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...

Letter to Patience

John Haynes

WINNER 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 Graham

The 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 Bentley

This 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...

The Looters

Robert Minhinnick

The 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 ...

Lugard's Bridge

Stewart Brown

In Lugard’s Bridge Stewart Brown divides the post-imperial world into home and abroad, and explores it through his original and beautifully-rnade poetry. He looks ironically at the recording of colonial history and at the new...