Coal

Tony Curtis

For the first time the literature of mining has been gathered together in a book which celebrates the industry while it still exists.
Contributors include miners themselves and writers moved or inspired by the industry ...

Cohabitation

Kate Bingham

A brisk wit and intelligence characterises these poems by Kate Bingham. Her subjects are friends, family, work, the experiences of any day, but her keen and compassionate focus brings these moments vividly to life....

Collected Poems of Leslie Norris

Leslie Norris

Leslie Norris has long been known as a nature poet and elegist of rare expression. Lyrical and individual, to his closely observed poems, each word weighted and in its correct place, Norris introduces a strong metaphysical element, which makes, as Edward Lucie-Smith has noted, the poems ’much larger than the sum of their parts’ ...

Cometary Phases

Christine Evans

Cometary Phases is Christine Evans’ first collection of poetry for six years. It builds on the lyrical and unsentimental portrayal of rural life which is a feature of her work, but includes a striking new imaginative power ...

Competing with the Piano Tuner

Tim Liardet

This collection dazzles with the sophisticated wit we have come to expect from this distinctive poet. Key themes recur: the opening sequence explores the many different sorts of heat -spiritual, sexual, emotional - inspired by the drought of 1995 ...

Crossing Over

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis’s wide-ranging interests in visual art, the impact of war and the nature of friendship coalesce in his latest collection, Crossing Over. A number of the poems take their inspiration from great artists, from early religious icons to expressionist canvasses, from a ‘buttery girl’ in a Flemish Landscape to the chainsaw sculptures of David Nash …

Dirt Roads

John Davies

Rusted mining towns in the American west connect along dirt roads with the slate country of North Wales, peopled, not empty, in John Davies’ new collection. At its heart is the sonnet sequence ’Reading the Country’ ...

A Dissident Voice

Mike Jenkins

In his fourth collection of poems Mike Jenkins addresses issues of the greatest concern to us in the nineties. His subjects include South Africa, Chile, the Falklands War, Northern Ireland, economic dereliction, the environment and sexual oppression ...

The Distance Between Us

Fiona Sampson

This brilliantly-devised verse-novel opens with a love affair in crisis, unfolds through loss, risk and existential challenge, and ends with love-making in a domain at once sensual and imagined. Such radical ambiguity invites us to...