Stonelight

Sheenagh Pugh

Sheenagh Pugh’s poems continue to entertain and delight her many admirers. In Stonelight, her ninth collection, the keynote is celebration. The opening section includes a moving series called ’Arctic Chart’ which commemorates the various people...

The Sun in the West

Jean Earle

Incidents from childhood, history, family life, the television news - these are the varied sources of inspiration in this new collection by Jean Earle. The poems are profound without being obscure; easy to read, yet...

Taken for Pearls

Tony Curtis

Taken for Pearls is the vibrant and various collection of poems by Tony Curtis, published in 1993. Included are beautiful elegies for relatives and colleagues, as well as fascinating persona poems where characters from history...

This House, My Ghetto

Mike Jenkins

In This House, My Ghetto Mike Jenkins makes room for eccentric petrol pump attendants, beleaguered immigrants, odd lodgers, famous footballers and ghosts. This is not the Wales of postcards, but a very different post-modern, post-industrial...

Time Pieces

Paul Henry

Time Pieces is Paul Henry’s debut collection of poems. Clear-eyed, compassionate, and concerned, he writes movingly about members of his family and community. We meet the brisk, arrogant ’Bigwig’, the fragile, elderly ’Audrey in Autumn’,...

To the God of Rain

Tim Liardet

These complex, intricate and fascinating poems are like miniature novellas, full of incident and atmosphere. Their titles set scenes: ‘Whisky Drinker Considers his Skirmish with Death’, ‘A Futurist Looks at a Dog’, ‘Re-reading Lolita in...

Travelling to the Fish Orchards

Robert Seatter

Robert Seatter’s debut collection is characterised by an open, highly personal tone; his style is fresh and uncluttered; his imagery charged and luminous. A love for Italy pervades the book, from a witty poem on...

Uncontrollable Fields

Steve Griffiths

Steve Griffith’s long-awaited third collection of poems Uncontrollable Fields is a sensitive look at the contemporary world, the legacy of politics, history, love, chance. Ranging across Wales, England and Spain, from Owain Glyndwr to cruise...

The Unexplored Ocean

Catherine Fisher

In this striking collection Catherine Fisher mixes vivid and particular poems about the Welsh landscape such as "The Four Seasons" and "Field-walking", with historical monologues such as "Incident at Conwy" and scenes from myth like...

Up the Lamb

John Ackerman

’Up The Lamb’ is the story of young John Ackerman’s growing up in the mining town of Maesteg during the Depression and the war years. The son of a butcher - and therefore the family were ’trade’ - John escaped the worst of the poverty while being acutely aware of it in the lives of his schoolmates ...