Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Donald Hunt


Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1870-1876) is one of the most influential figures in English Cathedral Music. In rewriting the settings of the Canticles he revived devotion to that part of the service; he is also the author of many memorable anthems ...

The Scam

Peter Lloyd

Sharp-edged, tough and funny, ’The Scam’  is Peter Lloyd’s play about two young Welshmen out to hit the business big time. Keen to escape their dead-end lives on a housing estate, AI and Oar make do picking apples until a chance meeting with the quick-talking Finn sets a wholesale scheme in motion that could net them all thousands ...

Sea Holly

Robert Minhinnick

A stunning debut novel from this award-winning poet and essayist, Sea Holly is a story of drifting, burnt-out lives, shadowed by the mysterious disappearance of a vivacious young girl …

“The man is a consistent winner.” – Peter Finch, Western Mail, March 08

“Robert Minhinnick has been regarded as the best writer in Wales now for more than a decade and his voice needs to be heard internationally.” Peter Stead, Western Mail, March 08

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2008

A Sea in the Desert

Leslie Norris

Leslie Norris’s eleventh collection of poetry is marked by his observation of the natural world. Many of the poems are concerned with the cyclical processes of nature migration, the seasons, life and death. They are written with all the sharpness of language, exactness of imagery and vivid painterly description which readers have come to expect in his work ...

Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984-2003

John Barnie

This generous Selected Poems from John Barnie includes work from seven of his previous collections: Borderland (1984), Lightning Country (1987), Clay (1989), The Confirmation (1992), The City (1993), Heroes (1996) and At the Salt Hotel (2003)…

Second Chances

Denis F. Ratcliffe

Critically injured in a mysterious air crash, D. considers the question which has haunted his young life: "what am I doing here?" What he recalls is a disturbing story of a child’s struggle for survival...

Seeds of Things

Mike Haines

Seeds of Things is the first collection of poems by Mike Haines. Its seeds are widely scattered through a range of poetic forms and styles, and a variety of subjects and experiences. A questioning volume,...

Selected & New Poems of John Powell Ward

John Powell Ward

This substantial book features poems from the five decades of John Powell Ward’s career. It opens with early, uncollected pieces – some of which were experimental and concrete – moves on to the traditionally styled poems of the 70s and 80s and then towards a late flowering in the 90s ...

Selected Later Poems

Peter Finch

A prolific, relentlessly inventive, provocative and often hilarious poet, Peter Finch has published over twenty volumes of verse, as well as prose, including the popular alternative guide books, Real Cardiff and Real Cardiff 2.This selection follows his popular Selected Poems (1987)with a choice of work from books published in the past twenty years.

“Put this by your bed and it could keep you awake for hours: noisy, diverting – though not, perhaps, sufficiently selected. The cover photo captures Finch, who is well known for his declamatory poetry readings, fizzing with energy.” Alice Kavounas, Poetry Review, April 08

Peter Finch: Selected Poems

Peter Finch

(CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT) Risk and range in form and articulated life: that is the excellence of Peter Finch’s poetry since the 1960s, outstanding in the dull conventions of official British poetry of these decades…