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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>‘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>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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<h3>Featured as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/12/poem-of-the-week-7th-nerve... Poem of the Week</a></h3><p> </p><p><em>Goliat</em> is the long-awaited follow-up to Hooson’s debut collection <em>The Other City</em>. The title poem takes us...
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<p><em>Hey Fatman</em> by Robert Minhinnick is full of the rich, sometimes strange, always telling, detail that we have come to expect from one of Britain’s most compelling poets. The book opens with poems set in and around his home country of south Wales, and includes a sequence based on the history of an ancestral...
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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><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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<p>This New and Selected Poems by Ruth Bidgood features work from her five early collections, starting with <em>The Given Time</em> (1972) through <em>Kindred</em> (1986) along with selections from her more recent volumes, <em>The Fluent Moment</em> (1996) and <em>Singing to Wolves</em> (2000...
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<p>“Presence and absence, some sort of together” (‘On the Beach with Chet Baker’). These are the three places that Robert Seatter’s second book of poems explores, with deftness, insight and artistry. They move from places of stasis and memory, through the uneasy proximities of love captured...
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<p>Celebrate the R. S Thomas centenary with this excellent volume that draws together 52 poems (2 previously unpublished) by Thomas to his wife, the distinguished artist Mildred E Eldridge - known as Elsi - from early meditations on their relationship to the elegies following her death.<br /><br />This revelatory...
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<p><strong>‘Her poems bring as powerful a sense of farm, animal and land as the best work of Ted Hughes.’ – PN Review</strong></p><p><strong>‘</strong><strong>Robust, relevant, witty, technically adept writing.’ – Artemis Poetry</strong...
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<p><em>Red Landscapes</em> collects together the two major strands of Mike Jenkins’ poetry: beautiful love lyrics to his wife and family, and the radical social and political poems which spring from his socialism. Although Jenkins has written some of the best love poems of recent decades he is best known for his biting...
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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>'These are mesmerising and unsettling poems. In an unstable world, objects speak a language of constant change. There's a split-second balance; for now the slates hold. The language is, as it needs to be, spare, tough, elegant. Zoë Skoulding brings cool and penetrating insights to disrupt quotidian vision.'...
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<p>What constitutes a republic? Not Wales, a nation subject to military claims on its landscape and a second home explosion which has hollowed out its communities. The achievement of a republic can be a subversive activity, as was the writing of <em>Republic</em>.</p><p><em>Republic</em> is about class,...
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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>Samantha Wynne Rhydderch's intense, uncompromising style recalls the confessional poets but her vivid narratives often conjure dark personas: men on the edge of breakdown or women in the midst of ecstasy.</p><p>The poet’s fascination with the ferocious and marginal lead her to daring risks with language. This...
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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>This Selected Poems by Ruth Bidgood includes generous selections from her previous five volumes as well as a large section of new poems.</p><p>'Valley-before-Night’, a long poem about the history, inhabitants and landscape of Cwm-cyn-Nos - a ’dark valley’ in mid Wales - sets the tone for...
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<p>A sense of mystery and mortality infuses these beautiful poems by Ruth Bidgood. Her deep engagement with the landscape and history of her part of Wales is matched by a metaphysical questioning as to the purpose and meaning of experience.</p><p>The voices that she invokes are often the ’unremembered’ ones: a...
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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>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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<p><em>The Fluent Moment</em> is Ruth Bidgood’s seventh collection and follows 1992’s well-received <em>Selected Poems</em>.</p><p>Her intense response to the landscape of Powys combines with a constant curiosity about the inhabitants of the place, their histories and personalities. Yet...
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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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