The Blood Choir

Tim Liardet

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2006

Tim Liardet’s masterly new collection, The Blood Choir, will surprise readers with its dramatic subject matter: teaching poetry in prison. An acutely observed incident is recalled and given a multitude of perspectives, each perspective resounding with an emotional corollary ...

 

The Bloodstream

Ceri Meyrick

This is the first in a series of SEREN POETS volumes, featuring the work of five poets. Four are collected here for the first time: Wayne Burrows, Rose Flint, Lucien Jenkins and Merryn Williams. The...

The Blue Book

Owen Sheers

This impressive debut includes poems on a wide range of themes: from recollections of a return to Fiji, to sharper memories of an adolescence in a rural town in Wales; from dark ruminations on farm...

Blue Horse of Morning

Rose Flint

Blue Horse of Morning is Rose Flint’s first full collection of poems. From wild love poems where angels float above hedgerows, to poignant elegies for relatives, to intense meditations on social and environmental themes, these poems promise to surprise and inspire ...

Burning the Bracken

Amy Wack

This anthology presents the forty-six poets published by Seren in its first fifteen years. From new poets to a Nobel nominee they represent a wide range of styles and interests from a narrower geographical area, largely Wales and the borders...

Captive Audience

Paul Henry

Private and public worlds collide in this second collection of poems by Paul Henry. A cast that includes, amongst others, butchers, teachers, hairdressers, mechanics and town planners sustains this poet’s awareness of human strengths and frailties ...

A Certain Marvellous Thing

John Powell Ward

In his first collection of poetry since 1984, John Powell Ward breaks new ground. These are edgy, urgent, relevant poems. The new forms are varied, radical and playful. Ward has moved from the pastoral pleasures of his last book, The Clearing towards a new sensibility, one concerned about the state of the world that our children will inherit and interested in the options that language can give us to explore and influence our times...

Civilised Airs

Steve Griffiths

One of very few English language poets to come out of Anglesey, Steve Griffiths is married and has a young son. Civilised Airs divides into poems of love and those of social concern. The former show a delicacy and tenderness in the personal world of the poet, the latter a controlled anger at the position of fragile human beings in a hard and disinterested society ...

Clay Hill

Tim Liardet

Clay Hill is an exciting first collection which explores the collapse of the remnants of our Victorian and Edwardian past in poems of authentic atmosphere, of beautifully sustained movements and silences. More personal poems exist in this context, relieved by the poet’s humour, and his feel for words and their texture ...