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TROEON:TURNINGS is a creative conversation, in Welsh and English, between two renowned poets, Philip Gross and Cyril Jones. Also featured are text designs by artist Valerie Coffin Price. Various rivers run through this work: amongst them, in Gross's case, the Taff, the Severn in south Wales, and in Jones's the Arth and the Glasffrwd in west Wales.

'Uruk's Anthem' has been described as beautiful, powerful and courageous and at the same time apocalyptic and terrifying in its unwavering scrutiny of, and opposition to, oppression and dictatorship wherever it occurs in the world. Fusing ancient Arabic and Sumerian poetic traditions with many innovative and experimental features of both Arabic and Western literature, Uruk's Anthem might best be described as a modernist dream poem that frequently strays into nightmare; yet it is also imbued with a unique blend of history, mythology, tenderness, lyricism, humour and surrealism. It took twelve years to write (1984-1996). During eight years of that time Adnan was forced to fight in the Iran-Iraq War. Many of his friends were killed and he spent eighteen months in an army detention centre, a disused stable and dynamite store, dangerously close to the border with Iran. Parts of 'Uruk's Anthem' were adapted for the stage and performed in 1989 at the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1993 at the Rasheed Theatre in Baghdad where the play received wide acclaim but angered the government. Adnan fled the country with his family and sought asylum first in Amman, then Beirut and then Sweden, where extracts of 'Uruk's Anthem', together with the poems of Adnan's friend, the Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtroemer, formed a play which was performed in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2014 as well as in Egypt 2007 and 2008. It was also performed in Morocco 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2014. A smaller selection of extracts from 'Uruk's Anthem' (translated by Jenny Lewis and Ruba Abughaida) was published in English for the first time in 'Singing for Inanna' (Mulfran Press, 2014) a first step towards this important, more comprehensive translation. 'Let Me Tell You What I Saw' includes notes to the text and an introduction by Jenny Lewis, and a note from Ruba Abughaida, translator.

Many of the characters in 'A City Burning' face decisions about embracing a fuller life, though at a cost to themselves. Others are witness to events in which they must decide to be involved or pass by. These are stories, especially the ones set in The Troubles, where the reader is bound to a character's dilemmas by tellingly empathetic writing.

Ed fits kitchens in the small family business in London, and he's wondering if there isn't more to life. So when Marcus, a client in banking, offers him an extra job refurbishing a cottage in Stromness he thinks, why not? Orkney is certainly a welcome change of scene from Bermondsey, and the work's easy enough. Then Marcus' sister Claire arrives, all city power and perfume, and events take an unexpected turn. 'The Stromness Dinner' is an offbeat, entirely readable novel about relationships. Beautifully observed, gently humorous, it is a very human and contemporary story about how we live today, and what happens when two people follow their dreams. Peter Benson has created a new sort of 'hero' in Ed Beech, whose homespun philosophy of life stays in the memory long after the novel ends.

Cambridge, ancient academic centre and fenland community, science/tech centre and centre of radical religious and political thinking, home to grand museums and agricultural cottages. With an American war cemetery, folk festival, iron age fort, evensong and Reality Checkpoint, it is a place alone as former student Grahame Davies finds on his return.

Left wing, working class radical Elaine Morgan was a trailblazing woman writer, especially in tv writing where her credits included Lloyd George. She also wrote about feminism and anthropology, with The Descent of Woman and The Aquatic Ape. This new biography celebrates her achievements and looks at the person behind the writing on her centenary.

Eating well, eating affordably, eating sustainably are three contemporary issues. In The Seasonal Vegan Sarah Philpott shows us how, with delicious recipes geared to seasonal crops, and some year-round menus. Illustrated by beautiful colour images, Philpott's recipes reduce environmental impact, spare our wallets and enjoy tasty and wholesome food.

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. Stints in Wales, Italy and Canada, plus return trips to her native Cornwall all spark poems delighting in the off-key, the overheard, the comedy and pathos of everyday life.

Universally captivating, Sir John Soane's museum in London is a labyrinth of evocation and imagination. Robert Seatter conjures it up in a personal and poetic trail, capturing the tragic story of the man who created it and the eclectic collection he gathered within its walls. With collaged elements from images of the museum artifacts.

Rhian Edwards won Wales Book of the Year for her debut poetry collection, Clueless Dogs. The Estate AgentâEUR(TM)s Daughter is her eagerly awaited second book. Acute and wryly observed, the poems step forth with a confident tone, touching on the personal and the public, encapsulating a womanâEUR(TM)s tribulations in the 21st century.

Katrina Naomi's poetry collection, 'Wild Persistence', written after a move from London to Cornwall, considers distance and closeness, and questions how to live. She dissects 'dualism' and arrival, sex and dance, a trip to Japan. There is a strong section of poems about the aftermath of an attempted rape. Her voice is convincing and contemporary.

Operation Violet Oak was the police name for its investigation into a child abuse ring in Cardiff. Except the ring never existed. Glascoe's account of false accusation raises important questions about the criminal justice system and police investigations. It is also a moving account of the pressure the accused men lived under for three years.

Famously the 'town of books' and home to the Hay Literature Festival, Hay-on-Wye is a unique rural town. Noakes uncovers the many quirks of this quirky place and explores its rural hinterland: the Black Mountains to the south, Herefordshire to the east, Brecon to the west and Kilvert's Clyro to the north. A book full of unexpected discoveries.

Author Sue Gee explores the wellspring of creativity and practice of twelve prominent but various writers, including Penelope Lively and Anna Burns.

Andre Mangeot's debut poetry collection for Seren, Blood Rain, is partly inspired by his love of the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia. Beautifully crafted, these poems address the natural world, its endangerment and other pressing global issues from multiple perspectives, and with great lyrical power.

Penned in a distinctive lyrical style, this collection of poems concerns itself with how the living haunt themselves. Each of the pieces are formed around a vivid image--among them, a child's signature in the dust of an old guitar, the stone plinth where a cafe once stood, a white balloon, and a chateau, still furnished with the belongings of its vanished owner. With a powerful and haunting voice, the concept of love underscores the commonplace in this moving and memorable collection of verse.

Full of immense richness and subtle wit, this engaging novel examines the power of ancestral and cultural heritage and the impact such history has upon the present. As an intense young filmmaker, Bethan Mair Nichols seems to have total happiness until an unexpected legacy bearing the weight of family and communal expectations forces her to question her ambition, motives, and her very role in the world. Compassionate and moving, this novel is based on an ancient folktale from medieval Wales.

Sheenagh Pugh's poems continue to entertain and delight her many admirers. In Stonelight, her ninth collection, the keynote is celebration. The opening section includes a moving series called 'Arctic Chart' which commemorates the various people (and one ship) who gave their names to features on the Arctic map. Also here is 'Envying Owen Beattie' (winner of the Forward Prize for Best Poem of 1998), where the discovery of a frozen explorer under permafrost inspires some unusual thoughts. The middle section, including 'The Faithful Wife', makes up a sequence of persona poems in the character of a middle-aged woman in love with a young man. Other poems deal with what Sheenagh Pugh calls "the usual suspects: Shetland, Cardiff, mortality, slightly weird and misplaced people." There are also more of the poet's fine translations from the French and German. "Sheenagh Pugh's work's accessibility is a feature of the clarity and inevitability with which she can pursue intuitions into territories of luminous significance."Poetry Review "Savour the richness of this collection: here is a poet who plays with words seriously and light-heartedly to build fine bridges between the external world and the inner world of imagination." Poetry Monthly Sheenagh Pugh is known to thousands of poetry readers for 'Sometimes', her much anthologised 'poem on the underground' and for her Selected Poems, a set text in schools. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Babel Prize for translation and the ACW Book of the Year in 2000.