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The Art of Falling is Kim Moore's keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from Seren. A young poet from Cumbria, she writes with a compelling directness and power about her life and the lives of others. Already a winner of multiple prizes, such as the Northern Promise Award (2014) Moore writes poems that are both moving and memorable.

A light-hearted exploration of the fate of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. By former National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis.

In Her Own Voice collects interviews with 13 contemporary women poets from Wales and explores their practice and the various issues - cultural, literary, political, domestic, gender, locality among them - which have shaped their writing.

Playing House, the debut collection of poetry from Katherine Stansfield, features a concise wit, a distinct voice, and an unsettling view of the domestic with ordinary subjects viewed through the author's satirical yet sympathetic eye. John Lennon's tooth, an imaginary Canada, bees in Rhode Island, jetlag, and office politics are all peculiar grist to this author's mill. She presents both historical subjects, such as Captain Scott of the Antarctic, and common objects, such as household bleach, with a skewed perspective, adding humor, drama, and a quietly distinctive pathos.

Fauverie, the new Seren poetry collection by Pascale Petit is named after the Parisian zoo that haunts her imagination. This book has childhood trauma and a dying father at its heart, while Paris takes centre stage, a theatre haunted by Aramis the black jaguar and the wild animals of the menagerie.

The border town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for two things: the annual Festival of Literature (now in its 31st year) and its stunning location. Jim Saunders new book is a photographic record and words about Hay-on-Wye, its environs and people. The result is a record of the relationship in which a landscape of great natural beauty shapes a people, ...

Hannah King is a liar, everyone says. So her stories of growing up in the Rhondda, from playing with dolls to glam rock must be treated with caution. From dolls and sherbet lemons, to a bright student who drops out of school in favour of drink, drugs and glam rock up on an estate which feels like another planet, Hannah, it seems, has always been tr

Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo. Other poems focus on the crammed terraces and abandoned high streets where a working-class and Welsh nationalist politics is hammered out. This is a postindustrial valleys upbringing re-imagined through the prism of pop culture and surrealism.

The book consists of two sorts of poems. The numbered "Imagined Sons" poems are little scenes where the author/narrator imagines, over a period of years, just what might have become of the son she gave up for adoption at birth in 1986. She imagines all sorts of destinies for him from the mundane (supermarket clerk) to the lively (singer-songwriter). Sometimes the scenes are realistic and sometimes they are steeped in the surreal: "visions" that evoke nightmares or practical jokes. The other "Birthmother's Catechisms" poems present the author/narrator's emotions more nakedly, in chorus-like laments for what might be or might have been.

In Port au Prince, Haiti, the police roam the streets and no one is safe. Fignolé, a musician and political radical, is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colorful bustle, urban deprivation, and political tension of the city; when they eventually locate him, they will have found more about themselves than they wanted to know. This story explores one day and three lives in a city where love is hard to find, life is cheap, and death is all too familiar. It is the tense, passionate, and vividly told story of small victories of hope in the face of a seemingly impossible fight against a monolithic regime.

New paintings on the subject of women and the constraints of domesticity by Shani Rhys James, accompanied by an informative interview and commentary by Edward Lucie-Smith.

A lavishly illustrated guide to sacred wells in the contested lands between England and Wales from prehistoric times to today, pagan to Christian, with diversions into the Roman occupation and the commercial spas of modern times.

This novella by Owen Sheers retells the Passion of Christ, based on the author''s groundbreaking National Theatre of Wales play starring Michael Sheen and performed over three days in Port Talbot.

Unsentimental, tough-minded, and fiercely lyrical, these works of poetry are inspired by places visited, including Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, and the United States. Moreover, this collection examines a number of subjects, including the marginal lives of vagrants, gypsies, minor criminals, the burnt-out, and the bereft as well as the accomplishments of superlative athletes and the beauty of the tango. With a touch of bitter political satire, this book radiates a tension between sensual rapture and knowing cynicism.

Brave and beautiful, this remarkable debut collection of poetry features the edgy, modern voice of an urban female. From poems of a fraught childhood in Bridgend, south Wales--where a sensitive child escapes through imaginative games--to works depicting student rivalries, damaged peers, and tense situations associated with teenage problems, this compilation matures with an underlying sweetness. Additional poems explore the sensual rapture of love and the clear-eyed realization of its inevitable disappointments.

Imogen Herrad goes in search of the Welsh-speaking communities of Argentina to discover not only their thriving contemporary lives but also their pioneering history, the story of the oppressed native peoples of Patagonia, and herself.

A collection of linked stories, this book provides voices to the migrants around the globe and explores their lives as they interact with others and experience a mix of hope, success, failure, fear, indifference, and passion. Both a fictional record and an investigation of immigration and migration in the 20th and 21st centuries, this narrative journeys as far as Albania, China, Mexico, Iraq, Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

This new collection of poetry from acclaimed poet Graham Mort expresses a feeling for the natural world that echoes and enhances human interactions, underscoring a sense of the individual as part of a larger society, for which everyone is implicitly responsible. Including a remarkable, ambitious long poem, "Electricity," this compilation also highlights the poet's formal rigor, instinctive compassion, and warm humanity.

An illustration of the literary world in Edwardian England, this compilation offers insight into the highly influential writer and poet Edward Thomas through his correspondence with Walter de la Mare, totaling 318 letters written between 1906 and 1917. Moving and deeply personal, these letters provide new and crucial evidence about Thomas's poetic processes while demonstrating their developing personal and poetic relationship and influence. The letters are arranged chronologically and are accompanied by commentary, biographical information, and transcriber's notes.

Returning from London to Wales for her mother's funeral, actress Kate Rivers is overwhelmed by painful memories from her past as well as regrets about her current childless, unmarried life. Teetering towards a midlife crisis, Kate is unable to find the emotional support she needs from her lover, Paul. Instead she finds herself falling for her beautiful and married cousin, Rhydian. But is her affair a second chance at happiness or a dangerous infatuation? This absorbing novel retells the familiar human tales of love and family relationships in a sympathetic yet unsentimental way.

At the age of six, Daniel was playing with insects in the garden when he saw his father fall to his death. Forty years later, Daniel is a middle-aged entomologist stuck in an unsatisfying relationship and caring for his increasingly forgetful mother. His humdrum life takes a dramatic turn when a blind woman joins his monthly reading group and recruits him to prepare translations for a mysterious company. As his new job's duties become all-consuming, the boundaries between reality and fantasy, memory and experience, and vision and blindness all begin to blur. Gradually, Daniel uncovers a sinister way to help his mother enjoy her memories and, in turn, rewrite his own past. Offering a fresh perspective on the subjects of memory and deceit, this narrative also provides insight into the world of contemporary Welsh literature.

Published to celebrate the centenary of R. S. Thomas'' birth, this volume draws together 52 poems (4 previously unpublished) by Thomas to his wife, the distinguished artist Mildred E. Eldridge - known as Elsi - from early meditations on their relationship to the elegies following her death. Foreword by Rowan Williams.

Nerys Williams deftly employs modernist techniques in her innovative new collection of poems. The reader is enticed by hints and clues, by tone and rhythm, by fragment and exclamation through themes that run from a painting by Gwen John, to ''Conversations with Cocteau'', from ''Methane Sonata'' to ''Global Warriors''.