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...

Eros and Thanatos

Paul Groves

Sex and Death are the dominant themes of this provocative new collection. With precise formal elegance and ironic flair Groves expertly dissects the angst of contemporary man ...

Eros Proposes a Toast

Tony Conran

This ’Collected Public Poems and Gifts’ illustrates the way in which the Welsh language tradition of composition for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, births, historical public events - has influenced Tony Conran for forty years....

Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas

David N. Thomas

Dylan Thomas went to New York in October 1953 to take part in Under Milk Wood. Three weeks later, he was dead. This fascinating book confronts painful facts about how and why he died. David Thomas' previous publications on Dylan Thomas have required us to rethink the poet's life. This, the author's latest book, demands that we also think again about his dying.

Fellini Beach

Tim Liardet

The diverse themes and textures of Tim Liardet’s second collection of poems are intricately wrought and almost operatic in scope and intensity. The poems of section 1 are not casual, ’occasional’ poems, but dramas with...

Flight Patterns

John Davies

Against backcloths which include Utah where he lived for a year and the Dee estuary of north Wales, his home area, Davies’ fascination with other people has sparked a diversity of forms, voices, stories. Underlying his variety, there is too an urgently sustained focus ...

Flotsam

Frances Williams

Flotsam is a first book of poems by a young writer already finding her voice. It is an exploration of Frances Williams’ world through word and visual image, illustrated by her paintings, drawings and collages ...