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<p>Many though not all of the poems in Christopher Meredith’s collection, <em>Still, </em>explore the web of meanings in the word ‘still’. They meditate on the paradoxes of stillness and motion, on the capacity of memory and imagination to hold life apparently still and the struggle in art to achieve...
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<p>Award-winning novelist and poet Christopher Meredith publishes two new books simultaneously. Order them both as a set for the discounted price of £15.00. </p><p>Christopher Meredith’s new poetry collection <em>Still</em>, uses the title word as a fulcrum to...
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<p><em>To turn, to dig, to plough, to upset, to translate… Bend, lap, journey, time... </em>The Welsh word <em>troeon</em> unfolds meaning after meaning. In <em>TROEON : TURNINGS</em>, two poets confident in their own traditions meet in the hinterland between...
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<p><em>Inhale/Exile</em> is the debut poetry collection by Abeer Ameer, a rising poet of Iraqi heritage, who lives in Cardiff, Wales. Inspired by the many stories she heard as a child and visiting family in Iraq as an adult, Ameer has written a book that celebrates the resilience of her forebears and extended family in Baghdad...
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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><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><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><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><strong>"Its unfettered creativity and sharp, critical mind work alongside one another to deliver a poetry collection equal parts fascinating, essential, abstract and educational. The insights it provides into the major struggles of our era and the particularly intimate approach it takes in doing so create a truly...
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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>Shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2020</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the <em>Mslexia</em>/Poetry Book Society Women's Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2019</strong></p><p><strong>"In <em>Bloodlines</em> Sarah Wimbush...
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<p>Resonant, complex, rich in heft and texture, these are mature poems that grapple with serious themes. André Mangeot’s <em>Blood Rain</em> opens with a deeply personal love poem (“Remember, too, our secret pool?”) that also introduces the natural world and it’s endangerment –...
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<p>Peter Finch, noted performance poet, boundary pusher and psychogeographer based in Wales, brings us <em>The Machineries of Joy</em>, his 26th poetry collection, chock-full of acute observation, pointed asides, startled reactions, formal dislocations and structural inventions.</p><p>First, Finch gives us the poem as...
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: vera-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Treat yourself or someone you love to a gift-wrapped parcel of three excellent poetry books, carefully chosen from the award-winning ...
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<p><em>No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters</em> sees poet Anne-Marie Fyfe, who grew up on the Antrim Coast, explore her own writerly passion for horizon-gazing, on an odyssey from her native Cushendall by way of water’s-edge locations such as Orkney, Felixstowe, Swansea and Cork to Martha’s...
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<h3><strong>Winner of Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020</strong></h3><p><strong>"Skoulding’s poems span time and space, giving a depth and complexity that unnerve the senses. Her themes have a rare range, not simply providing a dark view on human greed and destruction...
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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><strong>"The pictures that Hjelmgaard paints with words are more akin to pale watercolours rather than anything striking in oils, a quiet soundscape of inner thoughts and emotions, and it is this that gives them their strength." - WriteOutLoud</strong></p><p><strong>&...
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<p><strong>Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2020</strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019</strong></p><p><strong>"Rees-Jones moves between prose and poetry as if to test language in the act of transfiguration. Her imagination interpolates the...
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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><strong>"This is poetry that is always tugging at the reader to travel a little farther, straining to get round the next corner. In its scope it is ambitious, and in its approach gentle and humane. Pugh’s writing is wide, eclectic and imaginative, with these miraculously distant places almost...
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Winner of the Mslexia and PBS Pamphlet Prize 2018</b></font></p><p><br />Jane Lovell’s poems are both beautiful and disturbing. A deep feeling for the natural world is aligned with an acute lyric sensibility, as well as a...
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<p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE PIGOTT POETRY PRIZE 2020</strong></p><p><strong>'Eoghan Walls is both incredibly literal and metaphorical, often within the same lines, and serious and frivolous. This is a neatly packaged collection of formally structured poems that defy a neat or structured synopsis....
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<p><strong>‘When much new poetry looks no further than the poet’s navel, this kind of imaginative leap is a tonic.’ – <em>The Telegraph</em></strong><br /> </p><p>Victorian Cardiff –the world’s busiest port, booming on the...
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