English books for adults

Description The power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through As if to Sing. Full of poems about family, the poet's relationship wi...

Description In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies's text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horácek to provide ins...

Description An anthology of poetry and prose, mainly celebratory, of the Welsh experience of Christmas as captured by various Welsh writers. First ...

Description Peter Finch has developed his particular poetics for fifty years. His blending of the avant-garde, concrete, visual, sound and more con...

Description Peter Finch has developed his particular poetics for fifty years. His blending of the avant-garde, concrete, visual, sound and more con...

Description Questions of humanity, of point of view, are at the heart of Fiona Sampson’s new collection, Come Down.Throughout, Sampson’s poems shim...

ISBN: 9781845242503 Publication Date April 2017Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Adapted/Translated by Howard Huws. Format: Paperback, 150x1...

Description In Footnotes to Water, poet Zoë Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and the Bièvre in Paris, and tracks the lite...

Description Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group and the New Y...

Description A 20th anniversary edition with a foreword by James Dean Bradfield . Fiercely honest, compassionate, unconventional, political and pers...

ISBN: 9781781724736 Publication Date November 2018Publisher: Seren, Bridgend Format: Paperback, 216x138 mm, 72 pages Language: English This is acc...

Description God's Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876–1939). Illustrated with precision, authenticity and a keen...

Description This is not a stuffy anthology of poetry. It offers a new way of viewing the Welsh past, showing how some aspects of it are best access...

Description The poems in Homelands by Eric Ngalle Charles are irresistibly rich in tone, subject and emotion. Native to Cameroon in west Africa, he...

Description This unique memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and sexuality. In verse because it's how Bell remembers: snapsh...

Description Cardiff-based poet Abeer Ameer writes of her forebears in her first collection, Inhale/Exile. Dedicated to the 'holders of these storie...

ISBN: 9781780370781 Publication Date May 2018Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., Tarset Format: Paperback, 216x138 mm, 80 pages Language: English Secon...

Description With a forensic eye, Howells takes us on a journey through ordinary human lives and the extraordinary natural world we are in danger of...

Description A fascinating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Featuring twelve pieces dating from the 14th century to the present, this a...

Description A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Môn/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of the ...

Description A new edition of The Peacemakers, which includes some of Waldo Williams' most celebrated poems. It comprises the Welsh-language origina...

Description Bringing together twelve of Wales's best-loved hymns, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, Poems from the Soul reveals the hea...

Description R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams enjoy an international reputation. This book demonstrates how the spiritual poetry of both has its root...

Description Republic tells the story of a young Welsh woman growing up in the 1980s and 90s, following a boom in politics, culture and Cŵl Cymru. S...

Description Road Trip is a striking first collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell and an accomplished craft in usin...

ISBN: 9781912109258 Publication Date August 2018Publisher: Parthian Books, Cardigan Format: Paperback, 204x128 mm, 64 pages Language: English In Ma...

Description This collection moves from opening poems about Wales and the possilibities of independence, to an ending of three poems based in Corfu....

Description To mark the 50th anniversary of Housman Society, we are publishing a new, full colour photographic edition of A Shropshire Lad. This is...

In the summer of 2012 Delyth Jenkins walked the 186 miles of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. She carried a small harp with her, giving a series of im...

Description Poems exploring the author's grandmother's Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. We encounter tales of wil...

Description Philip Gross is a poet, librettist and writer for young people. A keen collaborator with other poets and across art forms, he has lived...

View From The Summit - Poems by Tom Davies Tom was born in Welshpool, Powys, brought up during early childhood in the Powys village of Foel.  Since...

Description Jeremy Dixon's first full poetry collection starts from his teenage suicide attempt and expands to encompass themes of bullying, queerp...

Description 34th in the Welsh Women's Classics series. The first ever collection of Dorothy Bonarjee's verse, offering an expert assessment of Bona...

Description One of Wales's leading writers, this posthumous volume brings together a selection of Jenkins' poetry from across his career. Selected ...