Singing to Wolves

Ruth Bidgood

A sense of mystery and mortality infuses these beautiful new poems by Ruth Bidgood. Her deep engagement with the landscape and history of her part of Wales is matched by a metaphysical questioning as to...

Skirrid Hill

Owen Sheers

WINNER OF SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2006 Ideas of separation and divorce are important in Owen Sheers’ eagerly-awaited new book: the geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead and the living ...

The Slipped Leash

Paul Henry

The choices we make - between music and silence, impulse and security; between the “torn land” and the “dazzling sea” - feature strongly in this new collection of poems by Paul Henry. A twenty-first century...

Slipping Away from Milford

Rob Watson

At the end of the Fifties the quiet fishing town of Milford haven faces the future as plans for an oil refinery are announced. Traditional values are challenged when big city corruption arrives in the shape of a dead man and a briefcase full of money ...

A Small Country

Sian James

A Small Country is the story of the Evans family, farmers in Carmarthenshire. In the summer of 1914 son Tom returns from Oxford to find the family falling apart. His handsome father has gone to live with schoolmistress Miriam Lewis, who is to have his child. His mother, broken-hearted, lies ill in bed, while his beautiful sister Catrin longs to leave for London and art college ...

Snaring Heaven

Christopher Meredith

The most significant writer among these prizewinners … I take to be Christopher Meredith. He writes with freedom and perhaps unfashionable eloquence about alienation and doubt. So wrote Michael Hofman in the T.L.S. of the...

Status Zero

Roger Granelli

Mark’s fifteen. His friends call him Psycho. He hates school and has a burgeoning career in house-breaking. His dad left when he was just a kid, and now he’s stuck on a mountain-top estate with the worst reputation in Wales ...

Stonelight

Sheenagh Pugh

Sheenagh Pugh’s poems continue to entertain and delight her many admirers. In Stonelight, her ninth collection, the keynote is celebration. The opening section includes a moving series called ’Arctic Chart’ which commemorates the various people...