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Her characteristic wit and precision are fully in evidence in Sheenagh Pugh's latest collection of poems, Sing for the Taxman. Dedicated to the proposition that poetry must, first of all, entertain the reader, these poems give delight on first reading and pleasure upon contemplation. A day mountain climbing inspires the beautiful three-part pastoral 'Climbing Hermaness', that opens the book. In 'Five Voices', we learn about the strange and tragic execution of Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Katte in 1730, through the dramatic confessions of his intimates. Later we meet, among others, 'Mozart Playing Billiards', 'The Last Wolf in Scotland', and Guy Fawkes' girlfriend ('Remember, Remember'). Half a dozen of Sheenagh Pugh's excellent translations from the poetry of Jammes, Holty, Von Hofmannswaldau and others, round off this thoroughly enjoyable collection. "This one I got hooked on from the minute I plunged into the first poem..."Poetry Review "... among the top two or three poets of her generation writing English poetry in Wales"Poetry Wales 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.

In the central sequence `Cuts' in Tamar Yoseloff's collection The Black Place, a cancer diagnosis arrives around the same time as news of the Grenfell Tower disaster. This conjunction of the personal and political is uneasy territory but one that the poet moves through with flair, fashioning a new urban noir, darkly glittering and memorable.

In Footnotes to Water (Seren) poet Zoe Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and the Bievre in Paris, and tracks the literary hoofprints of sheep through Welsh mountains. In these journeys she reveals urban and rural locales as sites of lively interconnection, exploring the ways in which place shapes and is shaped by language.

Many of the poems in this collection are written for people whom they celebrate and remember.

Mary J Oliver goes in search of her father through the few memories she has of him and discovers an unfulfilled life tinged with the tragedy of his partner's death and an orphaned daughter in Canada. Using the few documents of Jim's life and a mix of poetry and prose Oliver creates a fascinating and engaging book, unlike any other memoir.

For the past 25 years Daniel Butler has lived in a sixteenth century farmhouse in the Cambrian Mountains near Rhayader, where he has kept hawks for almost as long. The Owl House, however, is his account of his relationship with two wild birds, barn owls which have nested at the farm over the years. In that time they have become tame, allowing unusually close observation, and Butler is able to record the lives of these two birds and his familiarity with them in extraordinary detail. This intimate relationship becomes the starting point for an exploration of how the landscape around Butler's farmhouse - and further afield - has altered over the years, and with it the fortunes of all kinds of wildlife, and in particular those of birds. The changing face of the British countryside is a story of habitat loss, human development and increased traffic and roads; increased housing; noise pollution (especially important for owls); changing farming techniques and land use; the use of agrochemicals; and human indifference to the effects of this. The Cambrian Mountains may be one of the most remote and sparsely populated parts of Britain but it is not immune to physical change and the loss of local tradition and ways of living. The Owl House is a book of multiple but interwoven themes, including pastoral writing; the relationship between man and bird; environmental exploration. Daniel Butler's knowledge of birds, the natural world and his particular locale meld these into an evocative and informative book.

A stunning debut novel exploring the ethnic cleansing of Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans - Schwabians - after WW2, in which a young woman sets out to uncover the past of her grandparents, who fled to America. Ford has written a moving narrative of emigration and identity, realpolitik and relationships, and asks what happens when the truth is unspoken.

An account of the tumults of a Jewish woman's life during and after World War II is related in this powerful autobiography. Beginning with her childhood struggle to protect her younger siblings from the terrors of Nazi Germany, her story follows her harrowing escape to Britain via the Kindertransport, her new life with foster parents in Wales, and her efforts to establish a family as an adult. The tale provides an impassioned look at the difficulty of her life and times, vividly portraying the horrors of the German air raids, the instability of life during a premature and unhappy first marriage, and the heartrending search for surviving Jewish family in Austria, Israel, and the United States.

This beautifully illustrated book reveals how Giardelli's childhood in the country shaped his life. It examines his Italian background, his education at Oxford, and his sudden removal to Wales. A friend of Cedric Morris, David Jones, Josef Herman and Ceri Richards, Arthur Giardelli was for many years Chairman of the influential 56 Group Wales, arranging exhibitions throughout Europe. His international circle included the painters Zoran Music, Ota Janecek, Olivier Debre and the American Fairfield Porter. Giardelli's work can be found in the Tate Gallery, the National Museum of Wales and public and private collections around the world. Derek Shiel is a painter, sculptor and writer. Born and bought up in Dublin, he was educated at fettes College and the Edinburgh College of Art. A year's travelling scholarship took him to the USA before he moved to London.

This substantial collection of one act plays from Wales charts the rise of Welsh Drama from the 1950s to the present.

Other Beasts differs from Sarah Corbett''s earlier work in that in the latter half of this collection of poems, she moves away from her own personal history and focuses on in-depth and often scary narratives of other lives.

Blind Spots is a masterclass of inventive, intelligent, original, and relevant modern poetry. It is divided into two parts: the first a series of ''muse'' poems that are inspired by works of art and poetry, and the second includes various themes and styles.

Resonant and deeply humane, this collection of poems covers a variety of topics with the immediacy and dramatic impact that are inherent in performance poetry. Loud, bewildered, satirical, sad, furious, and funny, these poems travel to Barcelona, Hungary, Ireland, and the United States, and examine themes ranging from the anxiety of aging and the oddness of Wales to the remarkable musicians of the 1960s and the murderous Phil Spector. Poems in this compilation include "Trying to Find Béla Bartók," "Hunting for the Man With Huge Ear Lobes," and "I Chew Gum and Think of Rifles."

An atmospheric novel portraying the illusory nature of love while relating the story of a complex love affair that did not survive. First published May 2004. Short-listed for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award.