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<p>Hilary Llewellyn-Williams is one of the most renowned poets of her generation in Wales. <em>The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems</em> features poems from her earliest as well as her latest work.</p><p>Fully immersed in the natural world, the ‘Tree Calendar’ poems are composed in a richly...
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<p>'<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.'</em></p><p>-...
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<h4>Foreword by Nerys Williams</h4><p> </p><h2>Also available as a <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/collected-poems-complete-set">... Set</a> for just £30.00</h2><p> </p><p><strong>“Since the...
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<h4>Foreword by Ian McMillan</h4><h4> </h4><h2>Also available as a <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/collected-poems-complete-set">... for just £30.00</h2><p> </p><p><strong>“Since the early 1970s, Finch has been the...
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<h4>Forewords by Nerys Williams and Ian McMillan</h4><div> </div><h3>Also available as individual volumes</h3><p> </p><p><strong>“Finch’s legacy is to create substance from nothing, to defy our knowledge of decay and...
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<h2>With Phil Cope, Viviana Fiorentino, Mahyar, Csilla Toldy and Glen Wilson</h2><p><strong>“A necessary and urgent response to the world’s increasing crises…” – Robert Minhinnick</strong></p><p>Sanctuary is – urgent....
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<p><strong>‘A stunning collection. Much of what you’d anticipate to find is here: the lyricism, the haunting evocations of memory, of loss, of absence... and an exploration of song in itself. What makes his poetry so effective is the nuances of white space and the spaces between words... The suggestiveness of his...
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<p>In <em>Homelands</em>, his debut collection, Eric Ngalle Charles draws on his early life raised by the matriarchs of Cameroon, being sent to Moscow by human traffickers, and finding a new home in Wales. Rich in tone, subject and emotion, Charles’ poetry moves between the present and the past, between Africa and...
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<p><strong><em>“Hannah Hodgson takes us to the paradoxical heart of poetry itself: to be held inside a pain both intensified and soothed by the sheer brilliant presence of the poet’s mind.” – Caroline Bird</em></strong></p><p>Hannah Hodgon is an award-winning poet...
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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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<p>Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s new poetry collection is both keenly political and deeply personal. The opening poem ‘now’ features a seemingly peaceful domestic scene of a family lounging at home as the starting point for meditation on history, time, mortality and the fate of the planet: <em>I think of...
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<p><strong>Poetry Book Society Winter Selection 2021</strong></p><p><em>Much With Body</em> is the startlingly original second collection by poet Polly Atkin. The beauty of the Lake District is both balm and mirror, refracting pain and also soothing it with distraction: unusual...
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<h3>Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection</h3><p> </p><p><strong><em>“All the Men I Never Married</em> is a work of immense focus, intelligence and integrity.” – <em>The Yorkshire Times</em></strong></p><p>...
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<p><strong>Winner of the <em>Mslexia</em> Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2020</strong></p><p><em>Other Women’s Kitchens</em> is Alison Binney’s debut pamphlet of poems and introduces us to a gifted new voice who writes with flair and feeling about coming out...
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<p><em>’Your museum is permanently magical… some in poems have raised fine architectural edifices, but most rare have been those who… have built a poem.’ – </em>Isaac D’Israeli to Sir John Soane, 1838</p><p>Universally captivating, Sir John Soane...
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<p>This confident second collection by Dai George addresses the contentious nature of the times. Always deeply thoughtful but also alternately ebullient, angry, curious, ashamed, the poet moves through urban and digital spaces feeling both uneasy and exhilarated. As with the Auden of the inter-war period, there is...
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<p><em>Auscultation</em> means listening and specifically, in medicine, listening to sounds that come from the body’s internal organs. If listening is a central theme of this collection, it is also about being heard. Ilse Pedler is poet of breadth and depth. There are poems about waiting rooms and surgical instruments,...
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<p><em>'Beautiful, subtle, mysteriously evasive poems... a great achievement.' <strong>– Jeremy Hooker</strong></em></p><p><em>‘By any yardstick, </em>Still<em> is a major achievement’. <strong>– The...
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<p><strong>‘To publish two such accomplished and deeply rewarding books simultaneously is a remarkable achievement.’ – <em>Planet</em></strong></p><p>Award-winning novelist and poet Christopher Meredith publishes two new books simultaneously. Order them both...
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<p><em>To turn, to dig, to plough, to upset, to translate… Bend, lap, journey, time... </em>The Welsh word <em>troeon</em> unfolds meaning after meaning. In <em>TROEON : TURNINGS</em>, two poets confident in their own traditions meet in the hinterland between...
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<p><strong>“A moving and humane collection... The poems remind us poignantly of the importance of hope and love in bleak times and pay tribute to inspiring acts of courage.” – <em>Mslexia</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>“Inhale/Exile </em>is a...
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<p><em>Restorations</em> is a journey into what it means to preserve – a monument, a moment, a life-story, a poppy. It’s about the hunger to possess and the need to let go. Welding themes from art and history with the contemporary, there are poems about pigments and dictators, glue and glass houses,...
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<p><strong>“One of the most important Iraqi poets alive today.” – <em>Dr. Abbas Khadim</em></strong></p><p><strong>“Epic in scope, lyrical and deeply moving, this is a fascinating and powerful work, and a welcome addition to the canon of translated...
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<p><strong>A <a href="https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/poems/poetry-recommendations/">National Poetry Day</a> Recommended Read 2020</strong></p><p><em>The Estate Agent’s Daughter</em> is Rhian Edwards’ eagerly awaited follow-up to her multi-prizewinning debut <a...
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