Alun Lewis: Letters to my Wife

Gweno Lewis

Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was one of the few great British writers of the Second World War. His early death at the age of twenty-eight robbed Wales of its most promising poet and story writer …

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Animaculture

Hilary Llewellyn-Willians

This eagerly awaited collection by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams is her first since 1990’s acclaimed Book of Shadows. Her style is intensely lyrical and imaginative but also finely controlled and tempered by a keen intelligence ...

The Arches

Tony Curtis, John Digby



Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of...

The Art of Derek Walcott

Stewart Brown

Derek Walcott is a poet of international stature: his work appeals to both academic and popular audiences and is read throughout the world. Immensely talented as a poet, he is also a fine dramatist, a thoughtful essayist and gifted painter…

Batu-Angas, Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace

Anne Cluysenaar

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), one of the most famous scientists of the 19th century and best known today as the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution, is the inspiration for this beautiful sequence of poems by Anne Cluysenaar …

“Batu-Angas is an engaging, if not unfamiliar, literary meditation on humanity’s position within the evolving natural world. It is also, however, a text that inhabits and explores the interstices between poetry and science."  Planet, May 2009

"Cluysenaar's delicate and graceful poems (framed with quotations from Wallace and images of the animals and plants he collected) deftly explore the channels that Wallace's journeys opened up.  Cluysenaar's work articulates the tension between the slow evolution of a species and the scope and value of a single life …"
The Guardian, October 2008
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The Beautiful Lie

Sheenagh Pugh

Lying and truth-telling are a matter of choice; our innate capacity for mendacity is the source of all story-telling. The title poem poem sets the thematic tone for this collection which explores the interface between...

The Bed of Memory

Jean Earle

Shortlisted for the 2002 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award. These poems are informed by layers of memory, but never weighed down by them. Newcomers will appreciate the accessible style and the universal...

Berg

Hilary Menos

In her first collection, Menos brings a sophisticated sensibility to her poetry. Her subjects are seen aslant, with ironic as well as tender intentions. She ranges from the intimate and local to the ambitious and far flung, with poems that capture ‘elsewhere’ set in Paris and Havana and New York, and mini ‘ecological’ epics, often in the voice of an invented persona, alongside poems about geese and babies and farming life in rural Devon …

“…crackles with formal skill, with extraordinary, vibrant language … and with great style …” – Carol Ann Duffy

Beware Falling Tortoises

Sheenagh Pugh

A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one’s end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh’s wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry. The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid and pollution ...

Blind Man’s Meal

Bryan Aspden

Bryan Aspden’s second collection crosses Western Europe in its search for individuality in the face of an increasingly bureaucratic world. In the wake of Chernobyl, the rise of consumerism and mass media, and in the breaking down of national barriers he looks to the diverse cultures of Wales, France and Spain for an affirmation of identity in the shadow of bland universalism ...