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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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<h3>Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022</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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<div><p><strong>‘Kate Bingham has a natural, conversational line that perfectly accommodates an original and truthful new voice. Her first collection is a full-bodied response to life’s pleasure and pain.’ – Hugo Williams</strong></p><p><strong>‘Her direct...
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<p><strong>“A stunning and original pamphlet... inspiring, impressive and wonderful.” – The London Grip</strong></p><p> </p><p>Kathryn Bevis’s <em>Flamingo</em> introduces us to a troupe of wild, unique, and captivating...
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<p><br />'There's a delicious sense of both open-mindedness and devilry in Maris's work. Her company is quirky, stimulating and sparklingly intelligent. You could say she's like Sylvia Plath with added chutzpah. But, really, Kathryn Maris is like no-one but herself.' <strong>–...
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<p><em>Gods</em> is a first collection of spare, resonant poems by a new young poet. Their language is precise, their images delicate and inventive. Many of the poems explore the richness and ambiguity of a woman’s life, others portray rural Wales in a vivid and refreshingly direct manner.</p>
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<p><strong>‘<em>Infragreen</em> is full of sensuous, imaginative and beautifully accomplished work. It succeeds in leading the consciousness beyond its deadened rounds.’ – <em>The Poetry Review</em></strong></p><p><br />Perceptive, persuasive and...
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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>Keidrych Rhys was one of the most influential writers in Wales in the 40s and 50s, the result of his own practice as a poet, his editorship of Wales magazine, his taste for controversial polemic and his compiling of influential poetry anthologies for Faber. Dylan Thomas, Glyn Jones, Vernon Watkins, Emyr Humphreys, Alun Lewis, RS Thomas...
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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>The poems of Tiffany Atkinson’s debut collection, <em>Kink and Particle</em>, offer us multiple perspectives, including those of a woman on the brink of 30. This crucial birthday is a milestone from which the speaker looks back to childhood experiences, to the more indulgent pleasures of the 20s and then onwards to a...
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<p><em>Playing House</em> is the debut collection of poetry from Katherine Stansfield. A concise wit, a distinct voice and an unsettling view of the domestic characterise these poems whose subjects are the ordinary as viewed through the author’s satirical yet sympathetic eye. John Lennon’s tooth, an imaginary...
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<h2> </h2><p><br /><strong>Shortlisted for the Forward Prize 2006</strong></p><p>Kate Bingham’s second collection, <em>Quicksand Beach</em>, will please fans of her fiction and of her first book of poems, <em>Cohabitation</em>. She has a beautifully poised...
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<p>Quietly persuasive and formally adept, the poems in Kathryn Simmonds' first collection engage with both the quotidian and the transcendental. Often in urban or suburban settings, her protagonists struggle with mundane tasks such as cooking or commuting or office work - all of the obstacles of modernity - and then, by some shift of...
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<p><strong>Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2016<br />Shortlisted for Lakeland Book of the Year 2016</strong></p><p><strong>‘These poems are moving and magnificent. Kim Moore deserves a wide audience.’ – Bel Mooney, <em>The Daily Mail</em></strong...
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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>The Never-Never</em> is the dazzling debut collection of poetry by one of the UK’s most distinctive new voices. From joyriders in the rain-lashed back streets and housing estates of Wales, to London, California and beyond, Kathryn Gray gives us compelling tales of love and loss, of friendship, exile and the...
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<p>The Rocking-Stone is an exploration and celebration of the everyday life of women. To it, Kathy Miles adds layers of myth and legend to produce a poetry which expands and brings mystery to the domestic "position" of women. Nature and human relationships mix easily in these intriguing poems.</p>
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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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<p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><strong>‘Remarkable and rewarding’ – Artemis</strong></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><strong>‘This is a stunning collection.’ – Write Out Loud</strong></p><p style="margin-left:18....
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<p>Katherine Stansfield has made a name for herself both as a wryly witty poet of the everyday seen ‘aslant’ and as a popular novelist of crime and fantasy. Her second poetry collection, <em>We Could Be Anywhere by Now</em>, is pointedly full of poems about placement and displacement. After a childhood on...
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<p><strong>‘...this is a liberating reminder that “there are different ways to live”...nothing can suppress the wild and quirky energy at play...Wild Persistence is the joyous affirmation we need.’ – <em>PBS</em></strong></p><p><strong...
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