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 ...

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....

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 …

Cross-Talk

Siobhan Campbell

Acerbic, cool, controlled, Siobhán Campbell gives us poetry with attitude. Many of the stories here start in Ireland and although the cadences are sweetly lyrical, the narratives are otherwise. While full of wit, this collection challenges the reader by dealing with fundamental questions of borders, identity, violence and responsibility …

“Poems that are fierce, luminous and clear-eyed; torpedoes lined with feather strokes.” Bernard O’Donoghue

“Her writing has a strong sense of music and a deft, unerring balance. But this is by no means poetry about poetry: Campbell’s mordant wit and the sometimes savage honesty of her language coruscate off the page. This underexposed poet is definitely worth a try.”
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