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<p><strong>"The pictures that Hjelmgaard paints with words are more akin to pale watercolours rather than anything striking in oils, a quiet soundscape of inner thoughts and emotions, and it is this that gives them their strength." - WriteOutLoud</strong></p><p><strong>&...
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<p><strong>Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2020</strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019</strong></p><p><strong>"Rees-Jones moves between prose and poetry as if to test language in the act of transfiguration. Her imagination interpolates the...
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<p><em>The Bramble King </em>is full of darkly resonant tales, ingenious parables, curiously haunted rooms and palaces, and beautifully observed images of the natural world. A prolific, popular and prize-winning author of fantasy fiction, Catherine began her career as a poet, and Seren published her early volumes:&...
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<p><strong>"This is poetry that is always tugging at the reader to travel a little farther, straining to get round the next corner. In its scope it is ambitious, and in its approach gentle and humane. Pugh’s writing is wide, eclectic and imaginative, with these miraculously distant places almost...
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Winner of the Mslexia and PBS Pamphlet Prize 2018</b></font></p><p><br />Jane Lovell’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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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE PIGOTT POETRY PRIZE 2020</strong></p><p><strong>'Eoghan Walls is both incredibly literal and metaphorical, often within the same lines, and serious and frivolous. This is a neatly packaged collection of formally structured poems that defy a neat or structured synopsis....
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<p><strong>‘When much new poetry looks no further than the poet’s navel, this kind of imaginative leap is a tonic.’ – <em>The Telegraph</em></strong><br /> </p><p>Victorian Cardiff –the world’s busiest port, booming on the...
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<p>In 2018, Katherine Stansfield was the poet-in-residence at Cornerstone, the neo-Gothic church in the centre of Cardiff converted into an events space. This pamphlet of new poems is the result: the record of a dynamic year of varied events, and an exploration of this fascinating building’s rich history.</p><p>...
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<p><strong>Winner of the People's Choice Award, Wales Book of the Year 2019</strong></p><p><strong>‘As always Edwards' writing is at once bold and sweeping whilst also managing to maintain a homely and intimate voice that feels personal.’ – Ben Ray</strong>...
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<p>Richard Gwyn offers us a rich mix of history and memory in his new poetry collection,<em> Stowaway: A Levantine Adventure</em>. The author says:</p><p><em>This collection, held together by a loosely knitted narrative around an unnamed protagonist, a kind of anti-Ulysses, is based on a number of journeys that...
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<p><strong>Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Winter 2018</strong></p><p><strong>‘It’s well-nigh impossible to convey with quotation how Etter’s use of language, form, restraint and space combine to such impressive effect.’ – <em>Stride magazine...
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<p><strong>‘Bold and striking’ – Poetry Book Society</strong></p><p><strong>‘Cogan’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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<p><strong>‘Immediate, pithy and very, very readable’ – <em>Poetry Wales</em></strong></p><p><br /><br />The life of the influential Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard has inspired this book of poems by Marianne Burton.</p><p>Burton, whose...
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<p><strong>‘Wonderfully lucid and economical... precise and delicate in its use of language’ – Andrew Taylor</strong></p><p><strong>'This is a radiantly-written and vigorous collection by a rising star of British poetry.’<br />– David...
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<p><br /><strong>‘At once heartbreaking and comfortingly human, with the skill to make your spirits soar.’ – <em>SkyLightRain</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘Claire Williamson's poems are beguiling hybrids – self-assured yet...
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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 “days when you weren’t anyone. Days gone undercover...&...
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<p><strong>‘... Paul Henry has much of his compatriot R.S. Thomas’s gift, in that poet’s later work, for terse, coolly forthright insightfulness ...’ <em>The TLS</em></strong><br /> </p><p><strong>‘Here is a rich and comforting...
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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 – a feminist kick. Bryony Littlefair is acutely aware of women’s lives and gives us mothers, daughters, grandmothers, friends and colleagues whose adventures...
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<p>‘<strong><em>A Watchful Astronomy</em> is such an unclouded, moving and accessible collection it should be prescribed by the NHS for those who say they cannot stomach poetry because it’s too difficult or irrelevant.’ – Poetry School</strong></p><p><...
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<p><strong>‘Rippled through with uncommon beauty’ – SkyLightRain</strong></p><p><strong>‘Dip into Walton’s jazzed-up version of the world and you will inevitably surface from the pages in a brighter hue.’ – Wales Arts Review</strong>...
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<p><strong>‘<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>’<strong> – Mario Petrucci</strong></p><p><strong>‘Careful and...
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<p><strong>'<em>Black Shiver Moss</em> is a collection where place and time come together, memorably fresh and alive.' - <em>The North</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘A book of great energy’ – Katherine Stansfield</strong></p><p...
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<p><strong>‘Full of wit, fun, talent’ – <em>Artemis Poetry</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘Blewitt draws us in with her keen eye for quirkiness, a good ear for dialogue and her riotous delight in all things absurd.’ – Maria Apichella, The...
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<p><strong>‘Concentrated, irresistible poetry’ – 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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