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<p><strong>‘<em>A Formula for Night</em> is a significant journey for both the poet and the reader. Take it.’ – DURA</strong></p><p> </p><p>Tamar Yoseloff is a poet whose career has been profoundly influenced by the visual arts. <em>A Formula for...
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<p>Many of the poems in this collection are written for people whom they celebrate and remember. They include a homage to Sorley Maclean, ’A Fern from Skye’, and the ’Elegy for the Welsh Dead’, perhaps the finest poem about the Falklands War ever written. Blodeuwedd is concerned with both personal loss...
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<p><em>Clay Hill </em>is Tim Liardet's first collection. It explores the collapse of the remnants of our Victorian and Edwardian past in poems of authentic atmosphere, of beautifully sustained movements and silences. More personal poems exist in this context, relieved by the poet’s humour, and his feel for words...
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<p>This collection dazzles with the sophisticated wit we have come to expect from this distinctive poet. Key themes recur: the opening sequence explores the many different sorts of heat -spiritual, sexual, emotional - inspired by the drought of 1995; the piano tuner himself is the almost God-like symbol of the longing for harmony that...
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<p>Tony Curtis’s wide-ranging interests in visual art, the impact of war and the nature of friendship coalesce in his latest collection, <em>Crossing Over</em>. A number of the poems take their inspiration from great artists, from early religious icons to expressionist canvasses, from a ‘buttery girl&rsquo...
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<p>This 'Collected Public Poems and Gifts' illustrates the way in which the Welsh language tradition of composition for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, births, historical public events - has influenced Tony Conran for forty years. An acclaimed translator from Welsh, Conran has adopted styles, forms and genres to...
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<p>The diverse themes and textures of Tim Liardet’s second collection of poems, <em>Fellini Beach</em>, are intricately wrought and almost operatic in scope and intensity. The poems of section 1 are not casual, 'occasional' poems, but dramas with atmospheric sets, peopled by mad, eccentric or...
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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>Heaven’s Gate is the eighth collection for Seren by one of Wales’ best poets. Formally astute, subtle and persuasive in tone, evincing enviable clarity and insight, these poems address subject matter as diverse as forest fires in California, an eclipse recalled from childhood, and a World War One battlefield. Most...
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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>Taken for Pearls is the vibrant and various collection of poems by Tony Curtis, published in 1993.</p><p>Included are beautiful elegies for relatives and colleagues, as well as fascinating persona poems where characters from history reveal themselves to the reader. Also featured are fine occasional lyrics inspired by domestic...
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<p>Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis.</p><p>Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a...
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<p>Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis.</p><p>Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a...
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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>Lying and truth-telling are a matter of choice; our innate capacity for mendacity is the source of all story-telling. The title poem poem sets the thematic tone for this collection which explores the interface between fiction and reality.</p><p>In 'Fanfic', Pugh travels into cyberspace where devoted fans...
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<p><em>The Bed of Memory</em> was shortlisted for the 2002 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award. These poems are informed by layers of memory, but never weighed down by them.</p><p>Newcomers will appreciate the accessible style and the universal themes touched upon while even those familiar with her work will...
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<p><strong>"Yoseloff has listened to voices other than her own, has caught their words and made poems that help us remember." - <em>London Grip</em></strong></p><p><strong>"The great strength of this collection is Yoseloff’s openness...
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<p><span face=""GillSans"" size=""3"">Shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize 2006 </span></p><p align=""left"">Tim Liardet’s masterly collection, <em>The Blood Choir</em>, will surprise readers with its dramatic...
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<p><em>The Blue Book</em> is Owen Sheers' first poetry collection.</p><p>From recollections of a return to Fiji, to sharper memories of an adolescence in a rural town in Wales; from dark ruminations on farm life to tender and unconventional love poems. Owen Sheers has a talent for visual imagery, a flair for...
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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><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><br /><strong><em>"A brilliant new voice in British poetry whose debut is rich with Welsh wit, lyricism and spirituality. A little gem, full of promise." – </em>Dan Jones, London Evening Standard</strong><br /><br /><em>The Claims Office </em>is the...
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<p>This brilliantly devised verse-novel opens with a love affair in crisis, unfolds through loss, risk and existential challenge, and ends with lovemaking in a domain at once sensual and imagined. Such radical ambiguity invites us to experience the lovers’ dilemmas as our own: is true intimacy only possible through distance? How...
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<p>Winner of the <em>Mslexia</em> magazine pamphlet competition, poet Ilse Pedler often writes from her perspective as a working Veterinary Surgeon. From her earliest days as a student of Applied Zoology at Bangor University, where she worked with hill sheep and had to visit an abattoir in Caernarfon, she has been involved at...
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