Midway

Duncan Bush

From the threshold of his own fiftieth year, Duncan Bush returns to the ’Fifties of his youth as a springboard from which to explore the second half of the twentieth century in ways often more...

A Militant Muse

Harri Webb

Harri Webb (1920-1994) was not only one of the most popular poets in Wales but also a plangent cultural commentator. He wrote extensively on literary and political subjects for more than three decades, in the Western Mail and several magazines ...

The Milk Thief

Paul Henry

The Milk Thief is time - as it colours the lives of the characters and relatives who feature in Paul Henry’s new collection of poems. The first two sections of the book are set primarily...

The Mirror Trade

Zoë Skoulding

The title poem of this collection is set in Murano, home to the Venetian glass-making industry. The alchemical processes of mirror-making, its ’furnaces and transubstantiations, / amalgams of tin and quicksilver’ become a guiding metaphor...

Moontan

Don Rodgers

In the title poem, the protagonist basks by moonlight, becoming paler and paler until suffused with a strange bliss, an eerie spiritual purity, for ’night’s the time when inspiration’s filtered through the dark / and...

The Movement of Bodies

Sheenagh Pugh

Like the protagonist in the title poem of Sheenagh Pugh’s tenth collection - a mathematician startled to find him self in love - we are led into these poems by apparently straightforward tales that swerve into lyricism or surprise us with paradox …



“This is a very strong ending for The Movement of Bodies and it reveals that when Sheenagh Pugh is at her best, she is certainly a very fine poet.” Sarah Kennedy, West Batch, March 08

Multiverse

Don Rodgers

Playful, experimental, intense, ironic, these strikingly original poems by Don Rodgers are evidence of a passionate sensibility that delights in a vocabulary as sumptuous as the gardens he writes about. A cool honesty, quiet humour...