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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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<p><strong>‘It’s impossible to read this collection without being moved’ – New Welsh Review</strong></p><p><strong>‘This is a beautifully structured pamphlet that offers the reader a deeply felt sufficiency’ – WriteOutLoud</strong></p...
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<p><strong>Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2019</strong></p><p><strong>‘With her keen senses, she celebrates nature in all its glory. ’ – Disclaimer Magazine</strong></p><p><strong>‘Powerful and tender’ &ndash...
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<p><strong>‘Profoundly challenging and entertaining’ – WriteOutLoud</strong></p><p><strong>‘A book of bare facts coaxed into a strange expressiveness by barely-perceptible atmospheres of loss, anger, danger or hope. Or any two or three of these at once.&rsquo...
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<p><strong>‘<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: vera-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hooson’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...
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<p><strong>‘His energy, inventiveness and human sympathy make him one of the most exciting poets of his generation.’ – Merryn Williams</strong></p><p>‘<strong>An unusually lively and well written oeuvre that is worth the time of anyone interested in contemporary poetry....
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<p><strong>‘<em>What It’s Like To Be Alive</em> is a chance to reflect on the depth of Rees-Jones’s poetry to this point, and to see the growth of a fierce poetic intelligence.’<br />– Poetry Ireland Review</strong><br /> </p><p>Deryn...
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<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2016</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>‘The Immigration Handbook was certainly the most moving and inspiring book of poems I read last year. It really is a major book of political poems; I find it hard to think of a comparably successful...
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