Drawing on the author's experiences of the war in Northern Ireland and weaving a dark beauty that is poignant but never mawkish, these poems examine the concept of home: a shifting place that offers boundless possibility. This is poetry with a filmic quality, aware that the camera, like memory, can deceive as easily as illuminate.
Through the figure of Punch, Burlesque explores themes of identity and the roles imposed on us through circumstance and conditioning before examining how creativity shapes our view of ourselves, the masks we wear often unconsciously, and how we strive to come to terms with the human condition through wry humour moments of compassion.
Drawing on subjects as varied as Roman legionaries and a worn-out shirt, modern air travel and the imagined life of a lugworm, A Sense of North searches for purpose and order in the human condition, a poetry of what it means to be alive. -- Cinnamon Press
The Love Life of Bus Shelters uses the sequence form to uncover a quasi-allegorical significance in urban spaces and institutions. It's quirkily witty and accessible but it bristles with defamiliarising and sometimes profound insights.
Gail Ashton's Not the Sky - a memoir up-ends a West Midlands working-class childhood and chaotic family to re-imagine the present. -- Cinnamon Press
Locked inside himself, young Simeon Isherwood undergoes a radical and dangerous new gene therapy in the hope of freeing his senses and turning his mind towards the outer world. Meanwhile, an alien and god-like entity is moved to help a suffering mind it thinks of as its own offspring - with catastrophic results. -- Cinnamon Press
This new collection from this respected Scottish poet explores some of the stark truths to behind the world's glitzy facade.
Two women search for love and utopia across a landscape traumatised by conflict.
A second edition of the raw, edgy and poignant debut poetry collection of British Ghanaian author Louisa Adjoa Parker who began writing poetry to explore her feelings of being 'different' and the racism she experienced in her early years. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Daphne Gloag writes remarkable poems of cosmic scale. Yet, taking complex concepts such as time and cosmology as her references leads not to dense inaccessibility, but to conversational meditations on the human condition. In this exquisite sequence the carefulness of the research shines out, but even brighter is the enduring nature of love.
In Untergang, David Batten moves offers a sequence that is internally reflective, almost claustrophobic. Starting indoors in the dark of a power cut in the depth of winter and finishing inside the writer's ribcage, this is not a world without hope, but it is one that urgently needs to wake, to face the dark and change it.
Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking, writer in Cardiff, author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Each section is a free-standing short story but read together they form an untrustworthy autobiography.
A debut novel by a social anthropologist and artist, set in Tajikistan and following the lives of two women facing difficult circumstances. Harriet Simenon, whose seemingly wealthy ex-pat life is unravelling, while her maid and nanny, Nargris, is struggling with poverty and her dependent family. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Brimming with wit, moments of acute observation and imagination, and written in a wry, self-deprecating Billy Collins-esque style, Will Kemp's third collection is replete with refreshing images for the things that enrich life, from clouds to sport, art to music. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Set in Serbia during the First World War, the lives of a brave soldier and a patriotic medical orderly interweave. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
A young mother dies of cancer. Years later her daughter finds letters, the only time she has ever seen her mother's hand, and begins to write in response. Poignant, beautifully controlled and resounding with humanity and exquisite imagery, All the Time in the World is a stand-out pamphlet from Rebecca Gethin, author of two previous... -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
What Rain Taught Us follows a mind fracturing into a subjective landscape of association, reflection and invention, where words, images and conflicting voices tumble and echo almost to the point of destruction. But, gradually, islands of stability form. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
These poems explore the boundary between science and poetry, and juxtapose the lexicon of organic chemistry, in particular, with a botanical discourse which is more conventional in poetry, but which the scientific treatment defamiliarises. Far from being abstruse and heavy, the treatment here lightens the subject with an imaginative playfulness. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Taking the explorer, Vitus Bering, as its point of departure, this innovative and extraordinary novel explores dreams and waking, reality and loss. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Past and present, success and failure, magic and courage are swirled together in a story that brings a new voice to the myths, legends and traditions of folk and fairy tales. On their first night in Aunt Aggie's cottage on the Hebridean Isle of Tiree, Merryn and Hamish McQueen begin an exciting, but terrifying adventure to rescue Kester, a horse trapped in a fencepost by a witch.
Set on one day in 1979, The Fern Hedge explores the interconnected lives of three women - Alice, her daughter Kate, and grand-daughter Joanne. It is Alice's 80th birthday and she detests birthdays. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
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