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Politically and environmentally aware collection of poems from a deeply committed voice.

But It Was An Important Failure is an insightful, lyrical and confessional harvest of engaging poetry.

Paul travels to work on a day like any other: filled with reflection and questions. But the chill is more than the wind slicing in off the North Sea and Paul's soul searching runs deeper, with no end in sight. Part autobiography, part humanist study, Rotterdam is a unique, moving text. -- Cinnamon Press

Dismissed as a lost realm in this Age of Despair, Citizens of Nowhere offers route maps to Utopia, where our ideals and our lives can coincide.

Two musicians, both facing crises, become drawn to the mysterious life of an opera singer who disappeared decades before. As they each search for what they believe to be different people, their paths merge and the truth hidden in the past reflects startlingly of the present. -- Cinnamon Press

The final volume in the Celtic Colours Trilogy focuses on the Green Friday peace agreement and a young man's struggle to find a place as Belfast undergoes radical political changes that leave too little unaltered. -- Cinnamon Press

Growing from a year-long commitment to write one haiku a day, Catstrawe ranges through family history and female relationships, the stimulation of travel and the inspiration to found in the immediate environment, politics and the world situation, and the experience of living with cancer. This is a book about living life to the full. -- Cinnamon Pr

Second poetry collection by the American author, resident in the UK, exploring the imperfections and failures of memory found in private and public life and in the Arts themselves. -- Cinnamon Press

All the Different Darknesses explores our sense of what lies within or beyond the everyday, taking inspiration from the lives of objects, as well as familial memories and disturbances emerging from '... the different darknesses'.

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.

A book of lyrical landscape poetry set in the Cambridgeshire Fens and with a mission to revise and overturn common impressions of this landscape, powerfully revealing the intrinsic interest, peculiarity and dynamism of the Fens. -- Cinnamon Press

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.

A painterly debut poetry collection imbued with deep feeling for the natural world.

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

Celebrating an increasingly interesting form that concentrates short prose pieces with the techniques of poetry brought to bear, this is the first anthology of its kind in the UK and features well known proponents of the prose poetry form such as George Szirtes and Pascale Petit, as well as emerging voices. -- 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.

Poetry about politics and society

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