A Night on the Lash

Graham Mort

Like a painter, Graham Mort builds through a steady accumulation of precise and beautifully-observed details. The pictures that emerge are often surprising, even shocking in their effects. Mort is adept at imbuing a landscape with the moods and memories of its inhabitants...

North by South: New and Selected Poems

John Davies

John Davies’ new book, North by South, offers a choice selection from his substantial body of work. From the slate quarries of north Wales to the steelworks town of his youth in south Wales to...

Not Falling

Desmond Graham

The tightrope walker in the cover painting by Macke is symbolic of the author’s point of view in this new collection of poems. It is a humorous acknowledgement of the precarious position of the artist...

On the Beach with Chet Baker

Robert Seatter

“Presence and absence, some sort of together” (‘On the Beach with Chet Baker’). These are the three places that Robert Seatter’s second book of poems explores, with deftness, insight and artistry…

Oxygen: New Poets from Wales

Amy Wack

Celebrating the current resurgence of poetry by writers under 45 in Wales, Oxygen is a snapshot of recently established and exciting new talent writing in both the languages of Wales. Urban and rural, ironic and…

Passing Through

John Tripp

Passing Through was John Tripp’s first collection of poems for six years. His many admirers will be pleased to find that he has lost none of his pithiness, or his characteristic style and rhythm. His...

A People’s Poetry (trans)

Glyn Jones

Hen benillion (literally ’old verses’) are a unique form of folk poetry in Britain. Dating from the sixteenth century and earlier these short verses, or chains of verses, were composed to be spoken or sung to a harp accompaniment ...

Poems for Ghosts

Peter Finch

Ever wondered if there was another way of doing it? Poems for Ghosts takes up where his Selected Poems left off. A com- pendium of modernist plunder, this is no collection for lovers of the...

Poet Portraits/Portreadau Beirdd

Lorraine Bewsey

Poet Portraits, Portreadau Beirdd, Lorraine Bewsey, poets, Wales, pastel, hyper-realist Dannie Abse, Tony Curtis, Grahame Davies, Christine Evans, Catherine Fisher, Peter Finch, Paul Groves, Paul Henry, Gwyneth Lewis, Tim Liardet, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, Patrick McGuinness, Christopher Meredith, Robert Minhinnick, Twm Morys, Pascale Petit, Owen Sheers, Zoë Skoulding, Meic Stephens, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, www.lorrainesartstudio.co.uk

The Poetry Business

Peter Finch

(CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT) The Who, the What, the Where and, most important of all, the How of the Poetry Business Poet, editor and publisher Peter Finch brings his unrivalled knowledge and expertise to bear...