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The Tailor’s Three Sons & Other New York Poems
Mara Bergman
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<p><em>The Tailor&rsquo;s Three Sons &amp; Other New York Poems</em>, the Mslexia magazine prize-winning pamphlet published by Seren, is the fruit of author Mara Bergman&rsquo;s rich memories of her childhood on Long Island and Manhattan. Now living in the UK, she looks back and assembles an appealing cast of...
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The Tethers
Carrie Etter
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Winner of the London Festival Fringe Prize for the Best First Collection of Poetry 2010.</strong></span></span></p><p>American expatriate Carrie Etter&rsquo;s debut...
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The Treekeeper's Tale
Pascale Petit
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<p>Well known for the fierce confessional imagery of her first three books, <em>The Treekeeper&#39;s Tale </em>points towards another facet of the poet&#39;s gift, an intense feeling for the natural world, allied with a personal response to historical incidents and to other lands. The title section of this four-part...
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The Unexplored Ocean
Catherine Fisher
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<p>In this striking collection Catherine Fisher mixes vivid and particular poems about the Welsh landscape such as &quot;The Four Seasons&quot; and &quot;Field-walking&quot;, with historical monologues such as &quot;Incident at Conwy&quot; and scenes from myth like &quot;Merlin on Ynys Enlli&quot;. With an...
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The Visitations, Kathryn Simmonds
The Visitations
Kathryn Simmonds
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<p><em>The Visitations</em> is the new book of poems by Kathryn Simmonds, the follow-up to her Forward Prize-winning debut,<em> </em><a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/sunday-skin-launderette"><em>S... at the Skin Launderette</em></a>. As with her previous collection,...
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The Visitor's Book
John Davies
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<p>This is John Davies&rsquo; third collection, joint winner of the Poetry Society&rsquo;s major award - the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize in 1986.</p>
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The Way the Crocodile Taught Me
Katrina Naomi
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<p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><strong>&lsquo;Remarkable and rewarding&rsquo; &ndash; Artemis</strong></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><strong>&lsquo;This is a stunning collection.&rsquo; &ndash; Write Out Loud</strong></p><p style="margin-left:18....
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The Weather in Normal
Carrie Etter
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<p><strong>Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Winter 2018</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;It&rsquo;s well-nigh impossible to convey with quotation how Etter&rsquo;s use of language, form, restraint and space combine to such impressive effect.&rsquo; &ndash;&nbsp;<em>Stride magazine...
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The Welsh Book of the Dead
Douglas Houston
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<p>A wry, singular wit, an astringent honesty, and a virtuoso use of traditional forms characterise Douglas Houston&rsquo;s new book. At its (broken) heart is the not-uncommon crisis of the break-up of a marriage. Houston spins a sharp series of villanelles on the subject, at once poignant and merciless. This is poetry with an ironic...
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The Witch Bag
Sarah Corbett
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<p>&quot;Poetry as white-knuckle ride&quot; is how <em>Poetry Wales</em> described Sarah Corbett&rsquo;s debut, <em>The Red Wardrobe</em>. Her eagerly-awaited second collection, <em>The Witch Bag</em>, is as powerful as its predecessor, and is sure to cement Corbett&rsquo;s reputation as...
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The Zoo Father
Pascale Petit
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<p><br /><br /><br />Shortlisted for the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter&rsquo;s fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment.</p><p>Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds,...
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This House, My Ghetto
Mike Jenkins
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<p>In <em>This House, My Ghetto</em> Mike Jenkins makes room for eccentric petrol pump attendants, beleaguered immigrants, odd lodgers, famous footballers and ghosts. This is not the Wales of postcards, but a very different post-modern, post-industrial landscape subject to the whims of petty bureaucrats lampooned in poems like...
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This Is Not A Rescue
Emily Blewitt
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<p><strong>&lsquo;Full of wit, fun, talent&rsquo; &ndash; <em>Artemis Poetry</em></strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;Blewitt draws us in with her keen eye for quirkiness, a good ear for dialogue and her riotous delight in all things absurd.&rsquo; &ndash; Maria Apichella, The...
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This Tilting Earth
Jane Lovell
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Winner of the Mslexia&nbsp;and PBS Pamphlet Prize 2018</b></font></p><p><br />J​​ane Lovell&rsquo;s poems are both beautiful and disturbing. A deep feeling for the natural world is aligned with an acute lyric sensibility, as well as a...
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Time Being, Ruth Bidgood
Time Being
Ruth Bidgood
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<p><strong>WINNER OF THE ROLAND MATHIAS PRIZE 2011</strong></p><p>A Poetry Book Society Recommendation.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Time Being</em> is Ruth Bidgood&#39;s&nbsp; 10<sup>th</sup> collection in a career that spans almost 40 years. It has been said, rightly, that Bidgood...
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Time Pieces
Time Pieces
Paul Henry
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<p><em>Time Pieces </em>is Paul Henry&rsquo;s debut collection of poems. Clear-eyed, compassionate, and concerned, he writes movingly about members of his family and community. We meet the brisk, arrogant &rsquo;Bigwig&rsquo;, the fragile, elderly &rsquo;Audrey in Autumn&rsquo;, along with grandparents, window...
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Tokens for the Foundlings
Tokens for the Foundlings
Tony Curtis
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<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/30/poem-week-corams-cloth-tony-... Rumens&#39;s poem of the week &#39;Coram&#39;s Cloth&#39; by Tony Curtis (Guardian online 30th April 2012) </strong></a></p><p><em>&quot;...a delightful, moving...
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Translating Mountains
Yvonne Reddick
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<p><strong>&lsquo;It&rsquo;s impossible to read this collection without being moved&rsquo; &ndash; New Welsh Review</strong></p><p><strong>&lsquo;This is a beautifully structured pamphlet that offers the reader a deeply felt sufficiency&rsquo; &ndash; WriteOutLoud</strong></p...
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Travelling to the Fish Orchards
Travelling to the Fish Orchards
Robert Seatter
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<p>Robert Seatter&rsquo;s debut collection is characterised by an open, highly personal tone; his style is fresh and uncluttered; his imagery charged and luminous. A love for Italy pervades the book, from a witty poem on an early language text, Living Italian (1955) to &rsquo;The Book of Milan&rsquo; series which concludes the...
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TROEON : TURNINGS
Philip Gross
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<p><em>To turn, to dig, to plough, to upset, to translate&hellip; Bend, lap, journey, time...&nbsp;</em>The Welsh word&nbsp;<em>troeon</em>&nbsp;unfolds meaning after meaning. In&nbsp;<em>TROEON : TURNINGS</em>, two poets confident in their own traditions meet in the hinterland between...
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Two book deal - Please and Still
Christopher Meredith
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<p><strong>&lsquo;To publish two such accomplished and deeply rewarding books simultaneously is a remarkable achievement.&rsquo; &ndash; <em>Planet</em></strong></p><p>Award-winning novelist and poet Christopher Meredith&nbsp;publishes&nbsp;two new books simultaneously. Order them both...
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War Voices
Tony Curtis
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<p>War and its effects have been an enduring subject throughout the twenty-five year writing career of Tony Curtis. The resulting poetry might have been bleak but for the sensitivity with which Curtis handles the theme, and the bravery and dignity in the face of barbarism which he finds underlying conflict. Poems such as &#39;Soup&#...
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Welsh Verse
Tony Conran (1931-2013)
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<h3>Re-print coming soon</h3><p><em>Welsh Verse</em>, Tony Conran&rsquo;s milestone of translation, makes a welcome return. Formerly the <em>Penguin Book of Welsh Verse</em>, Seren has expanded the selection of what is the standard text of high quality translations of Welsh poetry stretching from the...
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