David Jones & Other Wonder Voyagers

Philip Pacey

In David Jones and other Wonder Voyagers, Philip Pacey explores the aesthetics of some of the twentieth century’s leading poets and artists: David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, George Mackay Brown, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Paul Nash, Geoffrey Hill and others. The emphasis of this collection of essays rests on David Jones, whose poetry is now recognised as amongst the most important of the century …

David Jones: The Maker Unmade

Jonathan Miles, Derek Shiel

New edition. David Jones, the greatest painter-poet since Blake, was celebrated and revered by the most renowned of his contemporaries. Since his death in 1974, a growing circle of enthusiasts has valued his work for...

The Dawes Decades: John Dawes and the Third Golden Era of Welsh Rugby

David Parry-Jones

Across the world the Welsh team of the late sixties and early seventies is fondly remembered for its mix of steely ball-winning and flamboyant try-scoring. The architect of their success was one of the game’s outstanding thinkers: centre John Dawes ...

The Democratic Genre

Sheenagh Pugh

Fanfic is the fastest-growing form of writing in the world. Working in ‘fandoms’ anonymous authors bring their own gloss and invention to novels, films and tv series, developing characters, expanding narratives and, in the ‘slash’ genre, boldly going where the conventional genre writers fear to tread in relationships …

Dennis Potter

Peter Stead


Dennis Potter is the most gifted and influential playwright in television history. Millions of people have been fascinated by his novels, plays, adaptations and films. Brilliant Oxford student, journalist, an early television critic, a failed parliamentary candidate, Potter belongs to that generation of the working-class which rose to prominence in the media during the sixties ...

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...

Don’t Stand So Close

Lloyd Rees

Tom Browning is 36. Bored and frustrated at home, he has reached the point of cynicism as a music teacher in a comprehensive school. Asking a class to respond to the lyrics of some pop music, it is Tom, afraid of growing fat, bald and middle-aged, who discerns a spurious truth in the hope and yearning of the words ...