Beware Falling Tortoises

Sheenagh Pugh

A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one’s end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh’s wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry. The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid and pollution ...

The Big Book of Cardiff

Peter Finch, Grahame Davies

A new anthology of writing about Cardiff, celebrating 100 years as a city, 50 as the Welsh capital...

Birdsong

Dewi Roberts

From the epic mythologies of the Mabinogion through to the present day, birds have exerted a powerful influence on the literature of Wales. This unique anthology gathers together a remarkable range of poetry and prose ...

Blind Man’s Meal

Bryan Aspden

Bryan Aspden’s second collection crosses Western Europe in its search for individuality in the face of an increasingly bureaucratic world. In the wake of Chernobyl, the rise of consumerism and mass media, and in the breaking down of national barriers he looks to the diverse cultures of Wales, France and Spain for an affirmation of identity in the shadow of bland universalism ...

Blodeuwedd

Tony Conran

Many of the poems in this collection are written for people whom they celebrate and remember. They include a homage to Sorley Maclean, ’A Fern from Skye’, and the ’Elegy for the Welsh Dead’, perhaps the finest poem about the Falklands War ever written ...

The Blood Choir

Tim Liardet

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2006

Tim Liardet’s masterly new collection, The Blood Choir, will surprise readers with its dramatic subject matter: teaching poetry in prison. An acutely observed incident is recalled and given a multitude of perspectives, each perspective resounding with an emotional corollary ...

 

The Bloodstream

Ceri Meyrick

This is the first in a series of SEREN POETS volumes, featuring the work of five poets. Four are collected here for the first time: Wayne Burrows, Rose Flint, Lucien Jenkins and Merryn Williams. The...

The Blue Book

Owen Sheers

This impressive debut includes poems on a wide range of themes: from recollections of a return to Fiji, to sharper memories of an adolescence in a rural town in Wales; from dark ruminations on farm...