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The title poem of The Glass Aisle, Paul Henry's tenth collection of verse, is about the displacement of former workhouse residents and set on a stretch of canal in the Brecon Beacons National Park. A performance version of The Glass Aisle, featuring songs co-written with Brian Briggs (`Stornoway') is currently touring UK festivals.
Eat better, cheaper, more ethically: The Occasional Vegan includes 100 delicious recipes for vegans, would-be vegans and those who want a change. Author and cook Sarah Philpott links her recipes to her journey to becoming a vegan in a books which caters for all occasions, from snacking to Christmas. With beautiful colour photographs of the dishes.
A secret she promised to keep, a boy with hair like fire, and a terrible accident - they're all connected, if only May could remember how. May's lost memories compel those close to her to relive the defining moments that set them on their current course. Naomi Kruger's unforgettable debut explores memory, regret and the past's hold on the present.
Way More Than Luck is the eagerly-awaited poetry collection from noted young critic and author Ben Wilkinson. At the heart of the book is a series of poems inspired by a lifelong devotion to Liverpool Football Club. We meet former players, coaches and re-live moments of both stoic despair and wild joy. Vivid themes are adroitly enacted in poetic forms.
Waterfalls of Stars is Rosanne Alexander's love letter to Skomer Island, the nature reserve where she spent ten years as a warden. It portrays a relationship with nature enthralling in its immediacy and engages readers as she cares for Skomer's bird and seal colonies while exploring her own character during periods of isolation from the mainland.
The Other Tiger: Contemporary Latin American Poetry is a new and much-needed bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry featuring 90 Spanish-speaking poets from Latin and South America. Translator Richard Gwyn has selected from post-war poets from Cuba to Argentina, and from established names like Fondebrider to new voices like Carolina Davila.
Borders are a huge topic today, part of our zeitgeist. What do they mean? How do we define them? In Crossings Nicholas Murray considers the borders hehas confronted - geographic, cultural, linguistic, social, class, religious, sexual - and reflects on the influence of borders on how we think of ourselves and others, in his typically dynamic style.
Mametz marks the centenary of this Great War battle with thought-provoking new photographs of the battlefield, which even today bears the scars - and other evidence - of the attack in which 4000 of the Welsh Regiment were killed or wounded within minutes. Jeremy Hooker contributes a characteristically insightful essay on the images and the battle.
Television naturalist Iolo Williams' guide to Wales' top 40 nature sites is fully illustrated by beautiful colour photographs of place and wildlife. The sites are spread across Wales and in Wild Places Williams surveys the flora and fauna to be found on them, and aims to encourage more visits to them by people from Wales and beyond.
Siobhan Campbell is an Irish author noted for poems characterized by keen intelligence, cool skepticism, rich textures and wryly witty observations. Her new collection from Seren, Heat Signature, continues her fascination with power and responsibility as she skewers our most cherished notions in sharply memorable poems.
Part crime fiction and murder mystery, part meditation on grieving, friendship and family, Maria Donovan's debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, is a coming-of-age story narrated with resilience and humour by Michael. Michael's cosy young life is threatened by bullying and blasted by visitations from the biggest bully of them all: Death.
Forbidden Lives explores and uncovers the hidden LGBT history of Wales through portraits of significant LGBT figures and the charting of key social and cultural moments in that history. Norena Shopland, a longstanding researcher and activist, has written an accessible and important first guide to the field which will be widely welcomed.
Deaton's poems are finely attuned and alert to the tensions in relationships, partly attributable to a difficult father figure, 'like a wounded bear', who haunts much of this book. A Watchful Astronomy is full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion.
A much-needed exploration of motherhood as both political space and a complex personal experience, this book''s skewering literary portraits of contemporary motherhood contend with the tender and torturous issues raised when a woman dares to do both. Contributors include Carol Ann Duffy, Sharon Olds and Hollie McNish.
This new, expanded edition of Welsh Quilts is an authoritative guide to the history and art of the quilt in Wales. Expert author Jen Jones has added many new, high quality colour images - some never seen before - and four patterns for practitioners to work from. Textile legend Kaffe Fassett has written a Foreword to the book.
In Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin Jonathan Miles explores the four years which Gill and Jones spent in Gill''s religious and artistic community in the Black Mountains of Wales and discovers that it was hugely significant time for both. For Jones it was a cultural homecoming. For Gill it was an opportunity to experiment spiritually and sexually.
The Harveys arrive in the small southwest Australian mining town of Akarula in search of a new life, inspired by the dreams of self-made man Uncle Eddie. But the disappearance of their youngest daughter, Georgie, into the desert landscape marks the start of a new reality for the family and troubled community.
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