Captive Audience

Paul Henry

Private and public worlds collide in this second collection of poems by Paul Henry. A cast that includes, amongst others, butchers, teachers, hairdressers, mechanics and town planners sustains this poet’s awareness of human strengths and frailties ...

A Certain Marvellous Thing

John Powell Ward

In his first collection of poetry since 1984, John Powell Ward breaks new ground. These are edgy, urgent, relevant poems. The new forms are varied, radical and playful. Ward has moved from the pastoral pleasures of his last book, The Clearing towards a new sensibility, one concerned about the state of the world that our children will inherit and interested in the options that language can give us to explore and influence our times...

Civilised Airs

Steve Griffiths

One of very few English language poets to come out of Anglesey, Steve Griffiths is married and has a young son. Civilised Airs divides into poems of love and those of social concern. The former show a delicacy and tenderness in the personal world of the poet, the latter a controlled anger at the position of fragile human beings in a hard and disinterested society ...

Clay Hill

Tim Liardet

Clay Hill is an exciting first collection which explores the collapse of the remnants of our Victorian and Edwardian past in poems of authentic atmosphere, of beautifully sustained movements and silences. More personal poems exist in this context, relieved by the poet’s humour, and his feel for words and their texture ...

Coal

Tony Curtis

For the first time the literature of mining has been gathered together in a book which celebrates the industry while it still exists.
Contributors include miners themselves and writers moved or inspired by the industry ...

Cohabitation

Kate Bingham

A brisk wit and intelligence characterises these poems by Kate Bingham. Her subjects are friends, family, work, the experiences of any day, but her keen and compassionate focus brings these moments vividly to life....

Cometary Phases

Christine Evans

Cometary Phases is Christine Evans’ first collection of poetry for six years. It builds on the lyrical and unsentimental portrayal of rural life which is a feature of her work, but includes a striking new imaginative power ...

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 ...