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Flight Patterns
John Davies
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<p>Against backcloths which include Utah where he lived for a year and the Dee estuary of north Wales, his home area, Davies&rsquo; fascination with other people has sparked a diversity of forms, voices, stories. Underlying his variety, there is too an urgently sustained focus. The tension between rootedness and movement, two ways of...
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Midas' Daughter
Vuyelwa Carlin
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<p><em>Midas&rsquo; Daughter</em> is Vuyelwa Carlin&rsquo;s first full-length book of poems. Her short-line stanzas are studded with jewel-like images that accrue into mysterious tales or characters from myth and history. The first section of the book is devoted to poems on the theme of trees. They show a fine sympathy...
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Poems for Ghosts
Peter Finch
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<p>Ever wondered if there was another way of doing it? <em>Poems for Ghosts</em> takes up where Peter Finch&#39;s <em>Selected Poems</em> left off. A compendium of modernist plunder, this is no collection for lovers of the traditionally tame.</p><p>Sound poems, found poems, straight poems. hooliganism...
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Sheenagh Pugh: Selected Poems
Sheenagh Pugh
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<p>Here is the best of Sheenagh Pugh&rsquo;s early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces.</p><p>Notable inclusions are the prize-winning &#39;M.S.A&#39; and &#39;Intercity Lullaby&#39;, and the much-anthologised &#...
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Poetry Wales: 25 Years
Cary Archard
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<p>Since it was founded in 1965, <em>Poetry Wales</em> has consistently published the best poetry by Welsh writers. This selection of 117 contributions is a fascinating record of twenty-five years of poetry writing.</p><p>It includes not only poetry but also articles about famous poets such as Dylan Thomas and...
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Jean Earle: Selected Poems
Jean Earle
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<p>This volume collects the best work from Jean Earle&rsquo;s previous books,<em> A Trial of Strength</em>, <em>The Intent Look </em>and<em> Visiting Light</em>, whilst adding to it over forty outstanding new poems.</p><p>Since her first book in 1980 (published at the age of seventy one)...
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Seren Poets 2
Ed. Ceri Meyrick
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<p>This is the second volume in the Seren Poets series, which aims to introduce new poets to a wider audience. It follows the pattern set in the first volume, <em>The Bloodstream</em>, of presenting three poets writing in English, and a Welsh language poet in translation for the first time.</p>
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Snaring Heaven
Christopher Meredith
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<p>The most significant writer among these prizewinners &hellip; 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 1983-84 Gregory Award winners.</p><p>Meredith&rsquo;s first short book, <em>This</...
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A Sea in the Desert
Leslie Norris
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<p>Leslie Norris&rsquo;s eleventh collection of poetry is marked by his observation of the natural world. Many of the poems are concerned with the cyclical processes of nature migration, the seasons, life and death. They are written with all the sharpness of language, exactness of imagery and vivid painterly description which readers...
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The Bloodstream
Ceri Meyrick
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<p>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 fifth, Menna Elfyn, is already an established poet in the Welsh language, and has been described as Wales&rsquo; leading feminist poet;...
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Cometary Phases
Christine Evans
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<p><em>Cometary Phases</em> builds on the lyrical and unsentimental portrayal of rural life which is a feature of Christine Evans&#39; work, but includes a striking new imaginative power.</p><p>Ageing, change, the environment and the position of women are her subjects now, in poems often shot through with darkness...
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Blind Man's Meal
Bryan Aspden
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<p>Bryan Aspden&rsquo;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...
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Immrama
Immrama
Catherine Fisher
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<p><em>Immrama</em> is an old Irish word meaning &quot;voyages to islands&quot;, and many of the poems in this volume are journeys to islands of the past, to ancient sites, and into religion.</p>
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Tim Liardet, Clay Hill
Clay Hill (Poetry Wales Poets, Vol 12)
Tim Liardet
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<p><em>Clay Hill </em>is Tim Liardet&#39;s first collection. It explores the collapse of the remnants of our Victorian and Edwardian past in poems of authentic atmosphere, of beautifully sustained movements and silences. More personal poems exist in this context, relieved by the poet&rsquo;s humour, and his feel for words...
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John Tripp: Selected Poems
John Tripp
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<p>This volume will be warmly welcomed by the many admirers of John Tripp. A well known and popular figure on the poetry scene, his untimely death in 1986 meant the loss of a &rsquo;devoted and passionate poet&rsquo;, as John Ormond calls him in the Introduction to this book.</p><p>Pithy, regretful, bitter, angry, at...
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Flotsam, Frances Williams
Flotsam
Frances Williams
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<p><em>Flotsam</em> is Frances Williams&#39; first colllection. It is an exploration of the poet&rsquo;s world through word and visual image, illustrated by her paintings, drawings and collages. Like those paintings her poetry is vigorous, exuberant almost, yet controlled and thoughtful. Through her rich and visual...
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Gods
Kate Johnson
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<p><em>Gods</em> is a first collection of spare, resonant poems by a new young poet. Their language is precise, their images delicate and inventive. Many of the poems explore the richness and ambiguity of a woman&rsquo;s life, others portray rural Wales in a vivid and refreshingly direct manner.</p>
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Selected Poems
John Ormond
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<p>John Ormond is one of the finest of a generation of Anglo-Welsh poets which includes Dannie Abse and Leslie Norris.</p><p>This long-awaited <em>Selected Poems</em> makes a thematic selection from his long career, influenced early by his friends Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins. Ormond soon found his own voice,...
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Falling Back (Poetry Wales Poets, 7)
Christine Evans
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<p><strong>Falling Back is out of stock. However, the complete poem is included in Christine Evans&rsquo; <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/selected-poems-3">Selected Poems</a>.</strong></p><p>&#39;Falling Back&#39; is a single long poem by one of Wales&rsquo;...
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Invisible Times, Mike Jenkins
Invisible Times
Mike Jenkins
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<p><em>Invisible Times </em>sees Mike Jenkins developing further the picture of working-class society in south Wales which he presented so forcefully in his previous book,<em> Empire of Smoke.</em> His use of language and dialect moves still closer to that of his subjects, and the business of their living is written...
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Prisoners of Transience (trans.)
Sheenagh Pugh
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<p>At the centre of <em>Prisoners of Transience</em> 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 the poetry of that time as in its visual art.</p><p>The fragility and uncertainty of life...
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Civilised Airs, Steve Griffiths
Civilised Airs
Steve Griffiths
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<p>Steve Griffiths is one of very few English language poets to come out of Anglesey. <em>Civilised Airs</em> divides into poems of love and those of social concern. The former show a delicacy and tenderness in the personal world of the poet, the latter a controlled anger at the position of fragile human beings in a hard and...
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passing through, john tripp
Passing Through
John Tripp
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<p><em>Passing Through</em> was John Tripp&rsquo;s first collection of poems for six years. His many admirers will be pleased to find that he has lost none of his pithiness, or his characteristic style and rhythm.</p><p>His settings are wide-ranging, from expensive restaurants, market towns, historical sites,...
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Glyn Jones: Selected Poems
Glyn Jones
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<p>This <em>Selected Poems</em> celebrates more than fifty years of poetry by one of Wales&rsquo; most versatile writers. Chosen by the author himself, it shows how Glyn Jones&rsquo; poetry progressed over the years.</p><p>Form and style may have changed but constant throughout the book are Jones&rsquo;...
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