Poetry Wales: Forty Years

Robert Minhinnick, Editor

An entertaining and wide-ranging selection from forty years of one of Britain’s foremost poetry magazines.

The Presence of the Past

Jeremy Hooker

This new collection of essays explores such urgent concerns in late twentieth century poetry as national and personal identity, and the relationship of history and the present. Jeremy Hooker takes a variety of poets and poems and sets them against each other to produce illuminating insights into the condition of modern poetry as a whole …

Prince Gwyn

David Parry-Jones

Gwyn Nicholls (1874-1939) is the starting - and perhaps the end - point of any debate about great rugby centres. Playing at a time when rugby developed into the game known today, Nicholls was universally recognised as the outstanding back of his time and a great thinker about the game, both technically and tactically ...

Print of a Hare’s Foot

Rhys Davies

Long before the idea that all biography is fiction became fashionable, Rhys Davies was cheerfully retelling his life story without mention of such minor details as his date of birth, or the existence of brothers and sisters ...

Prisoners of Transience (trans.)

Sheenagh Pugh

At the centre of Prisoners of Transience are the translations of seven German poets writing during the Thirty Years War, a period now much neglected. The general violence and desolation are portrayed as vividly in...

Process: Explorations of the Work of Tim Davies

Tim Davies et al

Tim Davies is one of the most exciting artists working in Britain today. Internationally exhibited and acclaimed he specialises in art which explores identity through artefacts - he has approached Wales through wool, fire, oil-drenched...

Pumping up Napoleon

Maria Donovan

Pumping Up Napoleon is an assured collection of fifteen short stories with an offbeat take on human relationships, and the relationship of the rather unreliable human body to mind and spirit. ‘Offbeat’ includes dog massage, cloning your own four-foot son for organ transplants, and a university lecturer’s romance with a resurrected Napoleon Bonaparte…