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<p>War and its effects have been an enduring subject throughout the twenty-five year writing career of Tony Curtis. The resulting poetry might have been bleak but for the sensitivity with which Curtis handles the theme, and the bravery and dignity in the face of barbarism which he finds underlying conflict. Poems such as 'Soup&#...
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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>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>Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s new poetry collection is both keenly political and deeply personal. The opening poem ‘now’ features a seemingly peaceful domestic scene of a family lounging at home as the starting point for meditation on history, time, mortality and the fate of the planet: <em>I think of...
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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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<p>'Welsh Retrospective' is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain’s most popular poets. Dannie Abse’s Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings. Wales and Cardiff, in particular, have haunted his imagination. In this revealing new book he writes movingly about...
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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 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>The poems in Wild Blue are the product of a restless and inventive intelligence. Capable of ruminating with grace and flair on such diverse personalities as Isaac Newton and Elvis Presley, Williams moves confidently between the metaphysical and the modern, combining a delight in abstract ideas with sensuous physicality. This new...
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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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<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>Simon Turner’s <em>Works on Paper </em>is the winner of the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize for 2013.</p><p>Judges Zoê Skoulding and John Barnie made their choice of the best collection of poems, submitted anonymously, from an extensive entry. The winner recieves £250 plus publication.</p...
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<p>In Paul Groves’s fourth book, which consolidates his reputation as one of the most able and consistent poets of his generation, we encounter such unlikely stablemates as Rudolf Hess, Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas, and Otto von Bismarck. It ends with ’The Orthodox Chapel of St. Dyfrig’, an anagrammatical tour...
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