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...

The Poetry of Pembrokeshire

Tony Curtis

This anthology of poems traces a journey around the coast of the old county of Pembrokeshire, from the north to the Carmarthenshire border in the east. The poets in it, natives and visitors, celebrate a region of outstanding natural beauty, of scenic landscapes and coast-lines. They also recognise the unique character of Pembrokeshire: Welsh yet ’a little England beyond Wales’ too ...

The Poetry of Snowdonia

Tony Curtis

This anthology collects together for the first time poems about the landscape and coastline of north Wales and its heartland Snowdonia. North Wales is an area of outstanding natural beauty which has been celebrated in both English and Welsh poetry for centuries ...

Poetry Wales: 25 Years

Cary Archard

Since it was founded in 1965, Poetry Wales has consistently published the best new poetry by Welsh writers. This selection of 117 contributions is a fascinating record of twenty-five years of poetry writing. It includes not only...

Poetry Wales: Forty Years

Robert Minhinnick, Editor

An entertaining and wide-ranging selection from forty years of one of Britain’s foremost poetry magazines.

Prisoners of Transience (trans.)

Sheenagh Pugh

At the centre of Prisoners of Transience are the translations of seven German poets writing during the Thirty Years War, a period now much neglected. The general violence and desolation are portrayed as vividly in...

Quicksand Beach

Kate Bingham

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2006

 

Kate Bingham’s second collection, Quicksand Beach, will please fans of her fiction and of her first book of poems, Cohabitation. She has a beautifully poised natural tone composed of intelligence and a slightly subversive sense of humour, and captures her subjects with precision and grace.

 

Quiver

Deryn Rees-Jones

Intended to be read from beginning to end, Quiver is a book-length poem - a murder-mystery - which explores the nature of creativity. Fay Thomas, a poet with writer’s block, becomes a murder suspect after...

Red Landscapes: New and Selected Poems

Mike Jenkins

Red Landscapes collects together the two major strands of Mike Jenkins’ poetry: beautiful love lyrics to his wife and family, and the radical social and political poems which spring from his socialism...

The Red Rubber Ball of Happiness

Frances Williams

Frances Williams’ third collection of poetry features a cast of quirky characters: from lovers, friends and children to Andy Warhol, Courtney Love and Wilson ‘Snowflake’ Bently ...