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167 Books in poetryHummadruz
Hilary Llewellyn-Willians
£7.95 Paperback (ISBN:1854113062)
Hummadruz brings together Hilary Llewellyn-Williams’s first two collections, the long-absent The Tree Calendar (1987) and Book of Shadows (1990). The former includes her reputation-making title sequence of poems reflecting on the Celtic calendar, in which each month is represented by a tree ...
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The Huntress
Pascale Petit
£7.99 Paperback (ISBN:1854113968)
In Pascale Petit’s highly-charged third collection, a daughter is haunted by her mentally ill mother, and a painful childhood is reimagined through a series of remarkable and passionate transformations... SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE
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The Hurricane
Gwyn Parry
£2.95 Paperback (ISBN:0907476805)
The Hurricane is a celebration of the landscape and seascape of north Wales, in particular Anglesey. The energetic poems explore the natural world and man’s response to it. A shipwreck and the hurricane of the...
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Id’s Hospit
Sheenagh Pugh
£6.95 Paperback (ISBN:1854111779)
With this collection of poetry Sheenagh Pugh confirms her place at the forefront of modern British verse. A subtle and adept technique, combined with a sharp wit, keen eye and pointed sense of humour, creates poems of memorable cadence and theme ...
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Immrama
Catherine Fisher
£3.95 Paperback (ISBN:1854110039)
Immrama is an old Irish word meaning ’voyages to islands’, and many of the poems in this volume are journeys to islands of the past, to ancient sites, and into religion ...
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In a Different Light: Fourteen Contemporary Dutch Poets
Eds. Robert Shouton & Robert Minhinnick
£9.95 Paperback
In response to In een ander licht, the Dutch anthology of poems from Wales, comes In a Different Light, a ground-breaking collection of work by fourteen contemporary Dutch poets who have made continental reputations but who wait to be discovered in the English language...
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Ingrid’s Husband
Paul Henry
£7.99 Paperback (ISBN:9781854114389)
Here is a book of ghosts, from the mysterious traveller in the title poem who, mistaken for another man, starts to crave his new alter ego, to the first person of ‘Between Two Bridges’, Henry’s long poem on Newport, who follows his teenage ghost across the city for a night:
He pulls away. The wind puts its lips to an arcade.
A seagull on a barber’s pole waits to open its blades.
“Ingrid’s Husband showcases Henry’s eye for striking imagery …Ingrid’s Husband succeeds as a powerful meditation on loss, and its tentative, never fully realised, attempts at renewal are always affecting…there’s more than enough fine writing in this volume to reward sustained attention.” – Richard Marggraf Turley, New Welsh Review, Feb 08
“ Henry’s poems work through images deftly juxtaposed; they evoke a world of fleeting memories and echo the processes of intuitive thought…“Paul Henry can be mischievously perceptive of the danger lurking behind appearances.” Poetry Salzburg, April 08
“Paul Henry’s lyrical poems achieve perfect pitch, matching sound to sense with, seemingly a minimum of effort. In Ingrid’s Husband, his fifth collection from Seren, musicality of line is evident throughout.” Alice Kavounas, Poetry Review, April 08
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Invisible Times
Mike Jenkins
£3.95 Paperback (ISBN:0907476589)
Invisible Times sees Mike Jenkins developing further the picture of working-class society in south Wales which he presented so forcefully in his previous book, Empire of Smoke. His use of language and dialect moves still...
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A Kind of Memory
Eleanor Cooke
£2.95 Paperback (ISBN:0907476872)
A Kind of Memory is Eleanor Cooke’s first collection of poems. The moving family poems it contains extend from the domestic into an exploration of the nature of poetry itself, and the making of fictions. A perceptive questioning of the process of creativity underlies the poet’s delicacy of language ...
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