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...

Eros and Thanatos

Paul Groves

Sex and Death are the dominant themes of this provocative new collection. With precise formal elegance and ironic flair Groves expertly dissects the angst of contemporary man ...

Eros Proposes a Toast

Tony Conran

This ’Collected Public Poems and Gifts’ illustrates the way in which the Welsh language tradition of composition for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, births, historical public events - has influenced Tony Conran for forty years....

Falling Back

Christine Evans

Falling Back is a single long poem by one of Wales’ most acclaimed new poets. It is the moving story of a woman’s attempts to come to terms with the death of her husband, a shepherd in north Wales ...

Fellini Beach

Tim Liardet

The diverse themes and textures of Tim Liardet’s second collection of poems are intricately wrought and almost operatic in scope and intensity. The poems of section 1 are not casual, ’occasional’ poems, but dramas with...

Flight Patterns

John Davies

Against backcloths which include Utah where he lived for a year and the Dee estuary of north Wales, his home area, Davies’ fascination with other people has sparked a diversity of forms, voices, stories. Underlying his variety, there is too an urgently sustained focus ...

Flotsam

Frances Williams

Flotsam is a first book of poems by a young writer already finding her voice. It is an exploration of Frances Williams’ world through word and visual image, illustrated by her paintings, drawings and collages ...

The Fluent Moment

Ruth Bidgood

The Fluent Moment is Ruth Bidgood’s seventh collection and the first since 1992’s well-received Selected Poems. Her intense response to the landscape of Powys combines with a constant curiosity about the inhabitants of the place,...

Folding the Real

Fiona Sampson

Surviving a murder attempt generates the clarity, compression and pure celebratory drive of this book’s title sequence of fourteen syllabic sonnets. These form the spinal cord of the entire collection, from which nerve endings reach out into a dizzying range of poetic matter...

Food

Peter Finch

In Food the multi-talented and endlessly inventive Peter Finch keenly observes the dark forces that afflict us and then relentlessly skewers them with a quick wit, or twists form to give alternative versions, inflicting a random beauty on the stale or predictable ...