Poetry

"e;Delve into the dark heart of a man tormented by guilt and the consequences of his actions.

Rachael Clyne's You'll Never Be Anyone Else presents a voice that is direct and assured, and that considers what it takes to reconcile being different.

"e;The voice has poetic authority: a technique capable of thinking and feeling through the poem, which compels attention.

Victorian Cardiff - the world's busiest port, booming on the back of the coal mined in the Welsh valleys.

All The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore.

We Have To Leave The Earth, Carolyn Jess-Cooke's third book of poems, deftly interweaves the personal and the political.

In this, her twelfth collection, noted poet Sheenagh Pugh steps into a new, northern landscape, the Shetland Islands, with poems steeped in the wilder weathers and views of rugged coastlines, sweeping sea-vistas and the hardy historical characters who have inhabited these lands.

In her second collection, We Could Be Anywhere by Now, Katherine Stansfield brings us poems about placement and displacement, full of both wry comedy and uneasy tension.

The title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: 'Boom!

"e;In this virtuoso collection, Paul Henry, poacher-like, tracks the journeys of the heart through landscape, love and loss.

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"e;Full of life: politicially astute, well-made and formally experimental poems celebrate even sadness in fresh language, natural rhythms and subtle music.

Based on a true story, this book-length poem chronicles a brutal multiple homicide in which a husband and father gunned down his entire family.

Inspired by her years as an Immigration Caseworker to one of the most diverse inner-city areas in the UK, Caroline Smith has written a collection of poems, The Immigration Handbook, (Seren) that details the many troubling and moving incidents in the lives of those she tries to help.

Katrina Naomi's poetry collection, Wild Persistence, written after a move from London to Cornwall, considers distance and closeness, and questions how to live.

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, this is the third collection from a poet of powerful emotions and vivid imagery.

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, this is the second collection from a poet of powerful emotions and vivid imagery.

The book consists of two sorts of poems.

Christopher Meredith's Air Histories starts in the Stone Age and ends in the future.

Ilse Pedler is a prize-winning poet who writes from the unique perspective of a practicing veterinary surgeon.

Mir Mahfuz Ali is an exceptional new voice in British poetry; native of what is now Bangladesh, Mahfuz grew up during the difficult period of the early 1970s when the region was struck, first by a devastating cyclone, then by a particularly vicious civil war.

Animal People is the new collection by the distinguished poet Carol Rumens.

Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo.

Often dark, with a concise and compelling style, this collection of poems brings together a variety of voices-dodos and wallpaper chant obsessively, a pair of shoes haunts a murderer's moll, a cheese weeps for the calf whose milk it stole, an army cook laments the dead, and a woman turned into soap dreams of her apotheosis as she washes into the sea.

The Hitting Game' is the first collection of poems by the London-based young poet Graham Clifford.

In the late 90's the poet Hilary Menos moved from Camden Town in London to a farmhouse two miles from a small village in Devon.

Katrina Naomi's The Way the Crocodile Taught Me is the eagerly-awaited second collection by this lively and popular poet.

Rosalind Hudis' poetry collection, Restorations, is a journey through memory.

Borrowing rhythms, vocabulary, and themes from the Bible, this collection of poems is more than artful parody-it is an approach that accommodates large themes, unraveling them in new ways.

Karaoke King is a second collection from Cardiff-born, London-based poet Dai George, in which he ponders the state of the nations he moves through, muses on the music that he has loved since childhood, and considers the battered dreams of his generation, who are faced with a multitude of challenges: climate change, a fractured politics, a pandemic.

The physical and the metaphysical meet, and questions of new motherhood are set against those of faith and the larger conundrum of how to live in this newest collection of poetry from Kathryn Simmonds.

The largely straightforward narrative in this remarkably assured debut poetry collection from a young Welsh poet is compellingly interlaced with often-elaborate and strange textures and imagery.

The Black Place is dark and gorgeously multi-faceted artwork, like a black diamond.

Exploratory and alive to the senses, The Museum of Disappearing Sounds creates new perspectives on language and the world in which it exists.

The fauverie of this poetry book is the big-cat house in the Jardin des Plantes zoo.

What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

Cath Drake's native Australia features large in her debut collection of poems, The Shaking City.

'Cusp', this new collection from Graham Mort, features many of the qualities readers have come to admire; keen observation, a feeling for the natural world that echoes and enhances the human interactions in his poems, the sense of the individual as part of a larger society of which we are implicitly responsible.

One of the most significant voices of his generation from Wales, a new book by Duncan Bush is an eagerly awaited event.

Already well-known for his prizewinning Welsh-language poetry and fiction, and for his scholarly non-fiction, Grahame Davies has now produced his first collection of poems in English.

Brave and beautiful, this remarkable debut collection of poetry features the edgy, modern voice of an urban female.

With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play for voices, Damian Walford Davies's Witch offers a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the mid-seventeenth century.

Intelligent and humorous, this debut collection showcases multi-faceted and often paradoxical poetry from a talented female writer.

Here is the best of Sheenagh Pugh's early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces Notable inclusions are the prize-winning 'M.

Inspired by a series of walks around the 186-mile Pembrokeshire coastal path in West Wales, which is known for its spectacular views from cliffside paths skirting the Irish sea and the Bristol Channel, this poetry compilation is deeply engaged with environmental issues.

A poet known for her fierce confessional style focuses on her passion for the natural world in this startling collection of vignettes influenced by California's giant redwood trees.