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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 TS ELIOT PRIZE<br /><br />Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2013</strong><br /><br />Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2012<br /><br />"contains poems that leave me speechless, at the same time so simple and so complicated that my words...
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<p><em>"... a careful and skillful poet..."</em> <strong>- Wales Arts Review</strong><br /><br /><em>"Pollit has given us a satisfying collection." </em><strong><em>- Planet</em> Magazine</strong><br /> </p><p...
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<p><em>"He is a thoughtful, meditative, serious poet and well worth reading."</em><strong><em> </em>- Sheenagh Pugh</strong></p><p><em>Lightning Beneath the Sea </em>is the first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies, featuring the work that he has honed...
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<p>"Overall, <em>Witch</em> is an intriguing and moving poetry collection, which revisits an old story to throw a new and disturbing light on gender and power." - <strong><em>Planet</em></strong><em> </em><br /><br />"...vividly imaginative, intelligent...
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<p><strong>Winner of Wales Book of the Year 2013,<br />Winner of the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry 2013<br />Winner of Wales Book of the Year People's Choice 2013<br />Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012.</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>...
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<p>One of the most significant voices of his generation from Wales, a new book by Duncan Bush is an eagerly awaited event. <em>The Flying Trapeze</em>, his sixth poetry collection and the first to appear after his notable ‘Midway’, is characteristically unsentimental, tough-minded, and fiercely lyrical. Many...
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<p>"It's an invigorating and captivating approach. I couldn't put it down" <strong><em>– Poetry Review</em></strong><br /><br />"...Jordan is a masterful and sensitive poet whose poems are rent with staggering insight, depth, rhythm and subtlety... As a...
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<p><strong>Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice </strong></p>
<p><em>"Remarkable."</em> <strong>- Poetry Wales</strong></p>
<p>In 2011, Poetry Wales magazine awarded the <em>Poetry Wales</em> Purple Moose Poetry Prize for the third time. The judges, Zoe...
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<h2><br /> </h2><p><em>Graham Mort specialises in revealing all that is “underfoot and unsaid” (“Dowser”) in Cusp (Seren, £8.99). It is a far-ranging collection – mentally and physically. “Electricity” is an epic hymn to the life-...
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<p><strong>‘What separates <em>The Salt Harvest</em> from many first collections is a willingness to look for the poetic in pretty much anything, an almost aureate diction, and a darkly exuberant style’ – The Guardian</strong></p><p><strong>‘...
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<p><em>The Ivy Hides the Fig-ripe Duchess</em> is an exhilarating first collection of poems from Ellie Evans. Using a surrealist palette of imagery and a tightly focused idiom, the author takes us on strange journeys:to the post-apocalyptic world of the title poem, or into a skewed 18th century Venice in ‘The Zograscope...
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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE (BEST FIRST COLLECTION) 2011</strong></p><p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE MICHAEL MURPHY PRIZE 2011</strong></p><p><strong>WINNER OF THE DLR STRONG AWARD (IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SHINE) AT POETRY NOW / MOUNTAINS TO SEA</strong></p><p...
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<p>The winner of the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize for 2010 is <em>Welcome Back to the Country</em> by Graham Clifford.</p>
<p>Judges <a href="http://www.serenbooks.com/author/zo%C3%AB-skoulding">Zoë Skoulding</a> and <a href="http://www.serenbooks.com/author/patrick-mcguinness...
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<h2> </h2><p><br />In this innovative new book of poetry Mike Jenkins continues his life-long obsession with the history and fate of Wales, embodied, in this instance by both the glories of the landscape and the depredations suffered by the old industrial valleys in their years of decline. In contrast, his career...
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<p><em>"The new, previously unpublished poems...represent the best work of a lyric poet who deserves a wider readership."</em> –<strong> TLS</strong></p><p><em>"This is a beautiful, moving book concerned with a preservation and celebration of the...
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<p>Anne-Marie Fyfe - as is apparent in her <em>Understudies: New and Selected Poems</em> - is a subtle and engaging poet. She has developed much like a painter, spare themes moving towards a deeper complexity. Her earlier work includes quite a few domestic interiors; rooms recalled from an Irish childhood and stories told by...
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<p><span><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE 2010</strong></span></p><p>Read an interview with John Haynes on the Cyprus Well website <a href="http://www.cypruswell.com/interview.php">www.cypruswell.com</a></p><p><e... is the new book-length long poem by Costa-...
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<h2> </h2><p><br /><em>De Chirico’s Threads</em>, the new collection of poems from Carol Rumens features an unusual centre-piece, a verse-play, fizzing with ideas and surrealist imagery, based on the life and work of the Italian painter Georges De Chirico, as well as forty pages of...
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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE 2010 </strong></p><p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011</strong></p><p>"Pascale's poems are as fresh as paint, and make you look all over again at Frida and her brilliant and tragic life." Jackie Kay, The...
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<p>This debut collection from Seren, <em>Inroads</em>, showcases a startling new talent. Carolyn Jess-Cooke has a sophisticated poetic intelligence as well as a great sense of fun. The opening piece, ‘Accent’ where ‘stowaway inflections and locally-produced slang/have passports of their own&rsquo...
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe Prize for the Best First Collection of Poetry 2010.</strong></span></span></p><p>This debut collection from Seren,<em> Inroads...
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<p>In his fourth collection of poems Mike Jenkins addresses issues of the greatest concern to us in the nineties. His subjects include South Africa, Chile, the Falklands War, Northern Ireland, economic dereliction, the environment and sexual oppression. The ’dissident voice’ of the title belongs to anti-nuclear campaigner...
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