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The Lovely Disciplines
Martyn Crucefix
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<p><strong>&lsquo;<em>The Lovely Disciplines</em> is a fascinating grove of acutely astute observations, where life and its slant significances flit, half-hidden, among the leaves. </strong>&rsquo;<strong> &ndash; Mario Petrucci</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;Careful and...
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The Machineries of Joy
Peter Finch
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<p>Peter Finch, noted performance poet, boundary pusher and psychogeographer based in Wales, brings us <em>The Machineries of Joy</em>, his 26th poetry collection, chock-full of acute observation, pointed asides, startled reactions, formal dislocations and structural inventions.</p><p>First, Finch gives us the poem as...
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The Man at the Corner Table, Rosie Shepperd
The Man at the Corner Table
Rosie Shepperd
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<p>Rosie Shepperd&rsquo;s debut poetry collection,<em>The Man at the Corner Table</em>, crackles with the unexpected. The voice is one of urban sophistication; a merciless charm that teases and tempts us with sensual evocations of food and place. The reader is surprised with tastes, scents, colours and textures. There is a...
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The Marching Bands
Desmond Graham
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<p>Significant events of the twentieth century, be they public and tragic or private and joyful, have inspired Desmond Graham to write this moving collection. The book features a number of elegies to the great poets of both world wars, including Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney and Keith Douglas. These poems are evocative of the...
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The Meaning of Flight
Christopher Meredith
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<p>This new collection of poems is Meredith&rsquo;s first since Snaring Heaven from the early nineties. Meredith is well-known as a novelist, and his poetry shares some of the qualities that make his fiction so memorable: a palpable passion for landscape and humanity&rsquo;s place in it, an inventive and versatile verbal imagination...
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The Memory Tray
Deryn Rees-Jones
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<p>Deryn Rees-Jones&rsquo; lively debut collection explores issues of gender and identity, memory and desire, through witty juxtapositions of character, plot and theme. Formative poems resound with magical imagery, as in &rsquo;The Great Mutando&rsquo; and recapture the dream-states of childhood where &rsquo;Grandma in the...
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The Milk Thief
Paul Henry
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<p>The Milk Thief is time - as it colours the lives of the characters and relatives who feature in Paul Henry&rsquo;s new collection of poems. The first two sections of the book are set primarily against the backdrop of the Ceredigion coast in Wales. A giant turtle washed up on the beach, an encounter with the British Boomerang Champion...
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The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt
The Mind-Body Problem
Katha Pollitt
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<p><em>&quot;... a careful and skillful poet...&quot;</em> <strong>- Wales Arts Review</strong><br /><br /><em>&quot;Pollit has given us a satisfying collection.&quot; </em><strong><em>- Planet</em> Magazine</strong><br />&nbsp;</p><p...
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The Mirror Trade
The Mirror Trade
Zoe Skoulding
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<p>The title poem of this collection is set in Murano, home to the Venetian glass-making industry. The alchemical processes of mirror-making, its &rsquo;furnaces and transubstantiations, / amalgams of tin and quicksilver&rsquo; become a guiding metaphor for the poet. Cityscapes are haunted by memories both personal and historic....
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The Movement of Bodies
Sheenagh Pugh
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<p>Like the protagonist in the title poem of Sheenagh Pugh&rsquo;s tenth collection - a mathematician startled to find himself in love - we are led into these poems by apparently straightforward tales that swerve into lyricism or surprise us with paradox. Many of Pugh&rsquo;s trademark themes and ideas appear here: a drunken snooker...
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The Museum of Disappearing Sounds, Zoe Skoulding
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds
Zoe Skoulding
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<p><strong>&lsquo;By perusing Skoulding&rsquo;s exhibitions, we, her readers, reconnect with a disregarded, integral part of our life&rsquo;s cacophony.&rsquo; &ndash; DURA</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The disappearing sounds of Zoë Skoulding&rsquo;s new collection may be either...
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The Never-Never
Kathryn Gray
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<p><em>The Never-Never</em> is the dazzling debut collection of poetry by one of the UK&rsquo;s most distinctive new voices. From joyriders in the rain-lashed back streets and housing estates of Wales, to London, California and beyond, Kathryn Gray gives us compelling tales of love and loss, of friendship, exile and the...
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The Other City
Rhiannon Hooson
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<p><strong>&lsquo;<span>Hooson&rsquo;s style is thoughtful, questioning, reflective, and consistently restrained. Her collection gives the impression of having come together over a long period, with each piece earning its place&rsquo; &ndash; Orbis</span></strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p...
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The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry from Latin America
Richard Gwyn
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<p><strong>&lsquo;A glittering bilingual anthology.&rsquo; &ndash; George Szirtes</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;<em>The Other Tiger</em> serves as a window on what is, to many readers, still another world. It is a great and generous gift, a legacy that will endure.&rsquo; &...
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The Poetry of Pembrokeshire
Tony Curtis
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<p>This anthology of poems traces a journey around the coast of the old county of Pembrokeshire, from the north to the Carmarthenshire border in the east. The poets in it, natives and visitors, celebrate a region of outstanding natural beauty, of scenic landscapes and coast-lines. They also recognise the unique character of Pembrokeshire:...
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The Poetry of Snowdonia
Tony Curtis
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<p>This anthology collects together for the first time poems about the landscape and coastline of north Wales and its heartland Snowdonia. North Wales is an area of outstanding natural beauty which has been celebrated in both English and Welsh poetry for centuries. Many translations from the Welsh are included here, together with poems by...
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The Red Rubber Ball of Happiness, Frances Williams
The Red Rubber Ball of Happiness
Frances Williams
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<p>Frances Williams&rsquo; third collection of poetry features a cast of quirky characters: from lovers, friends and children to Andy Warhol, Courtney Love and Wilson &lsquo;Snowflake&rsquo; Bently, the first man to photograph a snow crystal. Her voice is oblique, tender, reflective, as adept at spinning unusual conceits as...
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The Red Wardrobe, Sarah Corbett
The Red Wardrobe
Sarah Corbett
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<p>A voice of considerable power and intensity emerges from the work of Sarah Corbett. She is less interested in the everyday aspects of reality than in &quot;what moves beneath the surface of my own, and others&rsquo; experience&quot;. This infuses her poems with mystery and with the intent of discovery. They resound with...
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The Rocking Stone
The Rocking Stone
Kathy Miles
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<p>The Rocking-Stone is an exploration and celebration of the everyday life of women. To it, Kathy Miles adds layers of myth and legend to produce a poetry which expands and brings mystery to the domestic &quot;position&quot; of women. Nature and human relationships mix easily in these intriguing poems.</p>
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The Salt Harvest, Eoghan Walls
The Salt Harvest
Eoghan Walls
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<p><strong>&lsquo;What separates <em>The Salt Harvest</em> from many first collections is a&nbsp;willingness to look for the poetic in pretty much anything, an almost&nbsp;aureate diction, and a darkly exuberant style&rsquo; &ndash; The Guardian</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;...
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The Shaking City
Cath Drake
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<p><strong>Longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2021</strong></p><p><strong>&quot;Its unfettered creativity and sharp, critical mind work alongside one another to deliver a poetry collection equal parts fascinating, essential, abstract and educational. The insights it provides into the major struggles of our era...
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Vuyelwa Carlin The Solitary
The Solitary
Vuyelwa Carlin
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<p>Known for her distinctive style that owes something to Emily Dickinson&rsquo;s brevity (and her use of the dash to denote a long pause) Carlin is a surprising and unusual voice in modern poetry.<br /><br />This fourth collection features four distinct sections: the first part includes a series of poems dedicated to two...
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The Streets and the Stars, John Davies and Melvyn Jones
The Streets and the Stars: An Anthology of Writing in Wales
John Davies
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<p>Edited by experienced teachers, John Davies and Melvyn Jones, The Streets And The Stars is a generous anthology of writing in English by authors living and working in Wales. Authors include Leslie Norris, Gillian Clarke, Dannie Abse, Christine Evans, R.S. Thomas, Jean Earle, Bruce Chatwin, Brenda Chamberlain, Dylan Thomas and many others...
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The Sun in the West
Jean Earle
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<p>Incidents from childhood, history, family life, the television news - these are the varied sources of inspiration in this new collection by Jean Earle. The poems are profound without being obscure; easy to read, yet working on many levels. Often written from the perspective of old age, there is a feeling of resonance, of other lives...
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