Taken for Pearls

Tony Curtis

Taken for Pearls is the vibrant and various collection of poems by Tony Curtis, published in 1993. Included are beautiful elegies for relatives and colleagues, as well as fascinating persona poems where characters from history...

This House, My Ghetto

Mike Jenkins

In This House, My Ghetto Mike Jenkins makes room for eccentric petrol pump attendants, beleaguered immigrants, odd lodgers, famous footballers and ghosts. This is not the Wales of postcards, but a very different post-modern, post-industrial...

Time Pieces

Paul Henry

Time Pieces is Paul Henry’s debut collection of poems. Clear-eyed, compassionate, and concerned, he writes movingly about members of his family and community. We meet the brisk, arrogant ’Bigwig’, the fragile, elderly ’Audrey in Autumn’,...

To the God of Rain

Tim Liardet

These complex, intricate and fascinating poems are like miniature novellas, full of incident and atmosphere. Their titles set scenes: ‘Whisky Drinker Considers his Skirmish with Death’, ‘A Futurist Looks at a Dog’, ‘Re-reading Lolita in...

Travelling to the Fish Orchards

Robert Seatter

Robert Seatter’s debut collection is characterised by an open, highly personal tone; his style is fresh and uncluttered; his imagery charged and luminous. A love for Italy pervades the book, from a witty poem on...