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Basic Nest Architecture
Polly Atkin
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<p><strong>Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2019</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;With her keen senses,&nbsp;she celebrates nature in all its glory. &rsquo; &ndash; Disclaimer Magazine</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;Powerful and tender&rsquo; &ndash...
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Batu-Angas, Anne Cluysenaar
Batu-Angas, Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace
Anne Cluysenaar
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<p>&quot;This book is a fascinating exploration of the life of Alfred Russel Wallace, whose independent discovery of natural selection in 1858 triggered Darwin&#39;s publication of <em>The Origin of Species</em>. Wallace made important journeys to the Amazon and Indonesia, and Cluysenaar&#39;s delicate and graceful...
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Berg, Hilary Menos
Berg
Hilary Menos
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<p><strong>Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2010.</strong><br /><br />In this first collection from Hilary Menos, icebergs floating down the Thames jostle with transvestites in Singapore, aliens wading the Hudson River and the lively crew from the local slaughterhouse. We go shopping with Ingomar...
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Beware Falling Tortoises
Sheenagh Pugh
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<p>A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one&rsquo;s end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh&rsquo;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....
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Birdsong, Dewi Roberts
Birdsong
Dewi Roberts
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<p>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, illustrating the varied and multi-layered response of writers across many centuries.<br /><br />Birds are...
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Black Shiver Moss
Graham Mort
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<p><strong>&#39;<em>Black Shiver Moss</em> is a collection where place and time come together, memorably fresh and alive.​&#39; - <em>The North</em></strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;A book of great energy&rsquo; &ndash; Katherine Stansfield</strong></p><p...
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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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Blind Spots, Carol Rumens
Blind Spots
Carol Rumens
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<p>Certain to be one of the most read and talked-about poetry collections of the year, <em>Blind Spots</em> is a masterclass of inventive, intelligent, original, and relevant modern poetry.<br /><br />A major voice in contemporary verse, Carol Rumens is admired as much for her technical brilliance as for the range,...
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Blodeuwedd, Tony Conran
Blodeuwedd
Tony Conran
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<p>Many of the poems in this collection are written for people whom they celebrate and remember. They include a homage to Sorley Maclean, &rsquo;A Fern from Skye&rsquo;, and the &rsquo;Elegy for the Welsh Dead&rsquo;, perhaps the finest poem about the Falklands War ever written. Blodeuwedd is concerned with both personal loss...
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Blood Rain
André Mangeot
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<p>Resonant, complex, rich in heft and texture, these are mature poems that grapple with serious themes. André Mangeot&rsquo;s <em>Blood Rain</em> opens with a deeply personal love poem (&ldquo;Remember, too, our secret pool?&rdquo;) that also introduces the natural world and it&rsquo;s endangerment &ndash;...
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Bloodlines
Sarah Wimbush
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<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2020</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the <em>Mslexia</em>/Poetry Book Society Women&#39;s Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2019</strong></p><p><strong>&quot;In <em>Bloodlines</em>&nbsp;Sarah Wimbush...
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bodies, and other haunted houses
S.L. Grange
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<p>&#39;<em>All of this has been written before,</em></p><p><em>in the godless corners at the back of churches,</em></p><p><em>in the dirt of cotton-fields-corn-fields-battle-fields-</em></p><p><em>in the dirt, any way.&#39;</em></p><p>-...
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Boom!, Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Boom!
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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<p>The title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: &lsquo;Boom!&rsquo; enacts the moment when the new baby arrives in the family &lsquo;like a hand grenade&rsquo;. &lsquo;Becoming a mother changed me in every single way,&rsquo; says the author, &lsquo;my first child &ndash; born in...
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Boy Running
Paul Henry
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<p><strong>Shortlisted&nbsp;for Wales Book of the Year </strong><strong>2016</strong></p><p><strong>​</strong>Paul Henry has gained a reputation as one of of the best poets in the UK. <em>Boy Running</em> is his beautiful sixth collection and the first to follow&nbsp; <a...
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Ross Cogan
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<p><strong>&lsquo;Bold and striking&rsquo; &ndash; Poetry Book Society</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;Cogan&rsquo;s startling new collection is rooted firmly in the finest of the English poetry tradition, connecting us back to the dynamic dreamtime of nature and magic. In <em>Bragr</...
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Brood
Rhian Edwards
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<p><strong>&lsquo;Concentrated, irresistible poetry&rsquo; &ndash; Emily Blewitt</strong></p><p><br /><em>Brood</em> is the new pamphlet from poet Rhian Edwards. Winner of all three categories of Wales Book of the Year in 2013 for her debut poetry collection, <em><a href="...
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Burning the Bracken: The First Fifteen Years of Seren Poetry
Amy Wack
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<p>This anthology presents the forty-six poets published by Seren in its first fifteen years. From new poets to a Nobel nominee they represent a wide range of styles and interests from a narrower geographical area, largely Wales and the borders.<br /><br />R.S. Thomas rubs shoulders with concrete and performance poet Peter Finch...
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burying the Wren, Deryn Rees Jones
Burying the Wren
Deryn Rees-Jones
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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 TS ELIOT PRIZE<br /><br />Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2013</strong><br /><br />Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2012<br /><br />&quot;contains poems that leave me speechless, at the same time so simple and so complicated that my words...
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Desert Island Poems
Benjamin Zephaniah
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<p>Dr Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was born and raised in Birmingham, England. He cannot remember a time when he was not creating poetry. Poet, writer, lyricist, musician, he is one of the UK&rsquo;s most recognized and popular poets. His Desert Island Poems were revealed at the <a href="https://cardiffpoetryfestival.com/2021...
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Escape Room
Bryony Littlefair
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<p><em>Escape Room</em>&nbsp;is the long-awaited debut collection of poems from Bryony Littlefair, following her Mslexia prize winning pamphlet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/giraffe"><em>Giraffe</em></a>.... is a collection exploring the possibilities of freedom...
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Giraffe
Bryony Littlefair
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<p>Poems need head, heart, and soul but this particular <em>Mslexia</em> Poetry Prize-winning pamphlet has an extra ingredient &ndash;&nbsp;a feminist kick.&nbsp;Bryony Littlefair is acutely aware of women&rsquo;s lives and gives us mothers, daughters, grandmothers, friends and&nbsp;colleagues whose adventures...
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Living Next to Leda
Barbara Bentley
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<p>This is a remarkable first collection of poems by Barbara Bentley. Her distinctively witty voice brings us the up-to-date versions of the females of mythology.</p><p>&#39;Noah&rsquo;s Wife&rsquo; is plagued by her DIY-mad, boat-building spouse, &rsquo;Waking Beauty&rsquo; wakes from a cryogenic sleep into a...
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Same Difference
Ben Wilkinson
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<p>This ambitious new collection from poet and critic Ben Wilkinson finds its author experimenting with poetic voice and the dramatic monologue. Carefully crafted yet charged with contemporary language, the book brims with everyone from cage fighters to boy-racers, cancer patients to whales in captivity.</p><p>Several poems...
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Way More Than Luck
Ben Wilkinson
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<p><em>Way More Than Luck </em>is the vivid debut collection from the well-known young poet and critic Ben Wilkinson. The book opens with a series of poems that, with a remarkable clarity and sympathy, recall a battle with clinical depression: the &ldquo;days when you weren&rsquo;t anyone. Days gone undercover...&...
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