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This collection of 100 duotone portraits of the people who shape contemporary Wales contains the responses each subject had to a set of short questions about the notion of Welshness. Political devolution, a new economy, and the resurgence of the Welsh language are among several factors discussed by authors, artists, historians, and social commentators.

Drawn from the author's family history, this novel shows how ordinary people become extraordinary by their love for one another. Each year, in the days leading up to Cecil Connolly's wedding anniversary, he lies in bed in his Catholic nursing home, takes an old cash box from the bedside cabinet, and removes his most precious possessions: the letters his wife wrote to him in the months leading up to their marriage 60 years ago. And each morning when she comes to visit her husband, Noreen Connolly looks back on their shared life--their courtship and wedding, their friends and family, the journeys they made together--and asks herself what she did to deserve such a man. Compassionate and funny, this is a poignant and lyrical study of faith, family, and one couple's lifelong romance.

Subtle, artful, and intimate, the themes of these poems encompass many aspects of contemporary life, especially postwar music. With deftness and insight they move from places of stasis and memory, through the uneasy proximities of love captured in the moody jazz trumpet of the title poem, out to the uncharted spaces that loss and death can create. These arresting confessional poems are equally adept at exploring the songs of Elvis Costello and Jacques Brel, bizarre BBC sound effects, Shakespeare's most famous stage direction, and the films of Fellini and Marilyn Monroe, as they are at reflecting on the more mundane details of a bad day at the computer, garden bonfires, or the texture of toast.

The Claims Office is the debut collection from one of the rising young stars of British poetry. Dai George's work is characterised by a mix of rebellious energy and unflinching satire: 'nature' poems that are often anti-nature; lively pieces about the metropolises of London and New York; skewed love poems like 'Plans with the Unmet Wife'. Poems about his native Wales alternate between the elegiac and the edgy, displaying a suspicion of authority and a reluctance to conform to nationalist cliché that places him in the lineage of poets like RS Thomas, Robert Minhinnick, Duncan Bush, John Ormond and Mike Jenkins. "Lavish, well-executed... lyrics that seek to communicate directly with the reader.">Dai George was born in Cardiff in 1986 and has studied in Bristol and New York. He has had poems and critical articles published on Guardian Online, and in Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review and others. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including the Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011; ISBN 9781907773105) and Best British Poetry (Salt, 2013; ISBN 9781907773556). Often returning to his native Wales, he now lives and teaches in London.

Inspired by a series of walks around the 186-mile Pembrokeshire coastal path in West Wales, which is known for its spectacular views from cliffside paths skirting the Irish sea and the Bristol Channel, this poetry compilation is deeply engaged with environmental issues. With a keen observation of human nature in the context of this beautiful coastline, these poems feature ghosts, quarries, shipwrecks, pirates, fishermen, sailors, and monuments from the past: neolithic burial sites, forts, caves, graves, and memorials. Also present are characters conjured from history, such as the "four hundred Welsh Women wearing stovepipe hats" who foiled the last invasion of Britain at Carregwastad in 1797. Through simple and compelling language, this collection is sure to appeal to poetry lovers and environmental groups alike.

Elisions, displacements, journeys, memories of journeys, dreams: this new collection of poems by Sheenagh Pugh has a pervasive elegiac quality.

Christopher Meredith''s new poetry collection, Air Histories, is his fourth from Seren. One of the best writers of his generation in the UK, the rich textures of his work mirror the landscapes and complex histories of places he knows including the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons national park.

This is the lively first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies, featuring the work that he has honed over many years as he has read them at literary festivals, conferences and events world-wide. He is already well known for his prize-winning Welsh-language poetry and fiction, and for his scholarly non-fiction.

Exploring the complexities of family life and the importance of community, this novel is set on a small island in the Channel. Brenda, a feisty barmaid at the local pub, suddenly finds herself raising her two young boys alone as her estranged husband, Peter, leaves for Ireland in search of better prospects. Worn down by the constant struggle and pregnant with a third child whose father is nowhere to be seen, Brenda's spark begins to dwindle and her children become more and more unruly. A friend persuades Peter to return, but, soon after, their youngest son disappears. As they search for him, they are unaware that they will find something dark and terrible. This powerful story of broken relationships, hope, and reconciliation proves that all is rarely as it first may seem.

Author and photographer Phil Cope takes his camera on a journey through the sacred wells of Scotland from the Borders to the Orkney Islands. On his way he discovers wells in city centres and, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere - on mountainsides, in deserted valleys, on the coast, in sea caves. They include healing wells, cursing wells, and wells named for saints, Satan, witches, angels, fairies, friars, nuns, hermits, murderers and hangmen, even a well of the dead. His luscious and atmospheric photographs are accompanied by folk tales, myths and legends, conversations with well-keepers and poems inspired by Scottish wells.

In her first collection of poetry, Judy Brown's straightforward manner and gift for ironic humor belie the artful complexities and the exacting observations evident in her work. This compilation is composed of edgy narratives featuring characters who will suffer for their modern sins as well as disquisitions on color, perception, ex-angels, spontaneous combustion, and other mysterious phenomena. These poems introduce an outstanding and original new voice in modern poetry, expressing a baroque quality with sudden modulations of tone and register and a keenly sensuous appreciation of the physical world.

Drawing together all of the work from a remarkable Welsh poet, this collection celebrates John Ormond. Typically unsentimental and meticulously crafted, these poems--many of them elegiac--probe Ormond's Welsh roots, explore problematical areas of feeling, and center on particular aspects of the natural world. Including some previously unpublished material, this compilation also features commentary on the poet's writing, shedding light on the author's allusions, meanings, and inspirations.

Ibrahim is walking from Cardiff to London. So is Reenie. Neither of them is doing it for charity. But when their paths cross just outside Newport, worlds collide. Ibrahim and Reenie is an intensely human novel from David Llewellyn.

An ambitious collection of essays, this compilation closely examines cultural issues of the 21st century that are concerned with humanity and how it is manipulated and exploited by capitalism, technology, politics, and religion. Arguing from an atheist and liberal point of view, this volume dissects biblical texts and confronts the influence of the literalists and creationists of modern religion. Political expediency, cultural imperialism, globalization, and "junk culture" are also rejected as suggestions for a more altruistic and sound society in this opinionated selection of essays.

Moor Music is the new collection of poems by a previous Wales Book of the Year winner, Mike Jenkins and features work in open forms by this innovative and politically engaged writer.

A dark and chilling collection of tales to make the blood run cold, Sing, Sorrow Sorrow features short stories from contemporary Welsh writers.

In a Different Light is a groundbreaking collection of work by fourteen poets writing in Dutch, many of whom have made continental reputations, yet await discovery by the English-speaking world. And there are fascinating and rewarding discoveries to be made.The tone is often conversational, and imbued with wry humour, but the subjects are the 'big ones' - death, doubt, alienation - examined through minutely altered perspectives. Yet, as Robert Minhinnick notes in his accompanying essay, this is a poetry surprisingly unmoved by nature, by politics, even by war. Instead, for many of the contributors, language itself has become the subject. In a Different Light reveals the essential differences which characterise Dutch language poetry. Intriguing and enjoyable, this anthology is perhaps the best introduction to poetry in Dutch currently available.Edited by Robert Minhinnick and Rob Schouten.Contributors include H.H ter Balkt, Remco Campert, Hugo Claus, J.Eijkelboom, Anna Enquist, Eva Gerlach, Judith Herzberg, Esther Jansma, Rutger Kopland, Gerrit Kouwenaar, K.Michel, Leonard Nolens, Willem van Toorn and Hans R. Vlek.Translated by James Brockway, P.C Evans, Willem Groenewegen, Lloyd Haft, Francis R. Jones, Shirley Kaufman, Graham Martin, Steve Orlen, Craig Raine, John Scott, Mark Strand, Rina Vergano and Paul Vincent.

Photographer Bruce Cardwell set himself the task of recording the many ways in which horses still gallop across the country''s physical and mental landscape. This book is a must-have for anyone with an interest in our four-legged friends.