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seren is the imprint of poetry Wales press ltd, which works with the financial assistance of the Welsh books Council www.serenbooks.com Preface 3 2011 was an exciting year in which we celebrated our 30th birthday and threw a street Cynan Jones Bird, Blood, Snow 4 party outside the seren offices on the sunniest october saturday since records began. Judy brown and nerys Williams made the Forward shortlist, while patrick McGuinness’ Lloyd Jones See How They Run début novel The Last Hundred Days was on everyone’s long/shortlist: Man booker, Owen Sheers The Gospel of Us 5 Costa, Desmond elliot, authors’ Club, Writers’ Guild. he went on to win Wales book of Paul Binding After Brock 6 the Year (disappointing also-shortlisted robert Minhinnick in the process). book sales Mark Ryan Seán Tyrone were encouragingly buoyant, bucking the industry trend. A Symphony of Horror but no room for complacency as the book trade in 2012 is buffeted by structural Candy Neubert Big Low Tide 7 upheaval and recession. Fortunately, our list this year is strong and diverse. owen Christopher Meredith The Book of Idiots sheers’ The Gospel of Us is a novella from his screenplay of The Passion , performed to widespread acclaim by and a cast of thousands in . lloyd Damian Walford Davies Witch 8 Jones and Cynan Jones provide the next instalments in our series of new stories from Deryn Rees-Jones Burying the Wren the Mabinogion. Candy neubert takes us to the Channel islands with Big Low Tide ; paul Katha Pollitt The Mind-Body Problem 9 binding and Christopher Meredith consider men in youth and middle-age; while Seán Rhian Edwards Clueless Dogs Tyrone is a magical Symphony of Horror , beautifully illustrated by the author Mark ryan, sadly published posthumously. Duncan Bush The Flying Trapeze 10 Simon Mundy More for Helen of Troy highlights from the poetry include a pbs recommendation for Deryn rees-Jones; Damian Walford Davies’ account of witch trials in seventeenth-century norfolk; and a Emily Hinshelwood On Becoming a Fish 11 Forward-shortlisted début Clueless Dogs from rhian edwards, who is charismatic in Grahame Davies Lightning Beneath the Sea performance, winner of the John tripp award for spoken poetry. Tokens for the Meirion Jordan Regeneration 12 Foundlings is a powerful anthology celebrating the legacy of the Foundling hospital. The Van Pool rehabilitates the poetic reputation of Keidrych rhys. Poet to Poet: Edward Tony Curtis (ed) Tokens for the Foundlings Thomas’ Letters to Walter de la Mare offers further insights into a writer whose Keidrych Rhys The Van Pool: Collected Poems 13 reputation rides high almost a century after his untimely death. Judy Kendall (ed) Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas’ Letters to Walter de la Mare irish-speaking family life in belfast at the height of the troubles is recalled by liam Carson. German-born, Welsh-speaking imogen herrad explores cultural identity in John Redmond Poetry and Privacy 14 patagonia where Welsh, spanish and indigenous cultures collide. Closer to home, The Liam Carson Call Mother a Lonely Field Chapels of Wales celebrates and memorialises the nonconformist tradition, while nigel Imogen Rhia Herrad Beyond the Pampas: 15 Jenkins gives the Real treatment for a second time. In Search of Patagonia We have two very different true crime stories. John Morris’ Jack the Ripper: The Hand of Real Swansea Two a Woman presents a compelling case against a new and controversial suspect. The D. Huw Owen The Chapels of Wales 16 Murders is steve Wilkins’ account of how his team tracked down and John Morris Jack the Ripper: 17 convicted one of the most infamous serial killers of modern times. The Hand of a Woman Finally, we’re accelerating our digital publishing programme. Most new titles will have Steve Wilkins The Pembrokeshire Murders simultaneous print, kindle and ebook editions, and we’re bringing out selected backlist Stocklist 18 titles in a determined effort to gain a share of this growing market for our authors.

preface 4 the novel of The Passion : “one of the outstanding theatrical events of the decade.” – Observer

“sheers writes with dazzle and poetic economy” –

“owen sheers is one of the finest writers at work today. he always £8.99 £8.99 9781854115898 pb 9781854115904 pb £8.99 pb finds the sublime in the everyday 9781781720097 kindle 9781781720080 kindle 9781854116222 and the miracle in the mundane.” 9781854116079 e-book 9781854116086 e-book 9781854116444 kindle october october 9781854116451 e-book – Michael sheen Cynan Jones Lloyd Jones Owen Sheers Bird, Blood, Snow See How They Run The Gospel of Us in the original ‘peredur’ a youth seeking to small-minded academic Dr llwyd Mcnamara ‘Whenever my bampa was down the social owen sheers is the author of two poetry become a knight defends maidens, defeats has a grant to research one of Wales’ biggest telling a story, he’d pause before the best bits, collections, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill (which giants, and overcomes witches. Cynan Jones heroes: rugby player big M. but as he plays with lick his finger, touch it to his throat and then – received a somerset Maugham award); a turns the tale into a modern Quixotian romp. his usb sticks in his office, the gods have other so’s you could only just hear him – whisper, Zimbabwean travel narrative, The Dust Diaries plans for him... ‘God’shonesttruth now.’ then he’d carry on, (Welsh book of the Year 2005); and a novel, his father and brothers dead, jailed or missing, making all them other men lean in over their Resistance , shortlisted for the Writers’ Guild best peredur's mother takes him from the estates. but llwyd quickly discovers a link between the pints and cans, listening. Well, i’m licking my own book award and now a film starring andrea when local kids cycle into his life, he follows rugby star Dylan Manawydan Jones and his own finger now. and touching my throat. but it isn’t riseborough. his novella White Ravens is part of them, with the notion of finding arthur – an life, in the shape of the luxurious but strange God’s honest truth what i’m going to tell you. it’s seren’s ‘new stories from the Mabinogion’ series. absent, imaginary guardian. hotel Corvo on the west Wales coast. but from ours.’ here things only get stranger. are his rival’s owen’s tV credits include A Poet’s Guide to Britain Written from changing perspectives – police claims to a link between big M and the Celtic in The Gospel of Us , owen sheers reimagines as which he wrote and presented for bbC 4. the reports, psychiatrists’ notes, peredur’s voice myths of the past just a load of academic waffle... fiction his play The Passion , a three-day accompanying anthology is published by among them – Bird, Blood, Snow jigsaws the key and what is the significance of the mouse tattoo? dramatisation set in the streets, beaches and penguin. in 2012 his play The Two Worlds of events of his life, letting the reader draw the tale clubs of port talbot, co-directed by and starring Charlie F. (based on the experiences of injured together. there are ulterior meanings and a lloyd Jones retells ‘Manawydan son of llyr’ with Michael sheen. soldiers who also acted in the production) quest for readers errant. references, parodies his usual ingenuity, imaginative intelligence and premiered at the . and quotes from classic texts all lurk within the zest for language, to create a skilful and hugely sheers’ novella is told through the eyes of a port owen is currently the Welsh rugby union artist writing for the brave reader to locate. enjoyable tale. talbot boy who stumbles upon a stranger in the in residence. windswept dunes, singing songs to the sea. at Cynan Jones has published two novels, The Long lloyd Jones’ début Mr Vogel won the McKitterick dawn a week later this stranger welcomes the Dry (which won a betty trask award) and prize and was shortlisted for the bollinger teacher, a local man who has been missing for 40 Everything I Found on the Beach , and a piece from everyman Wodehouse prize. Mr Cassini was The Passion was a nights. and so begins three days of unearthly a work in progress was included in Granta 119: Wales book of the Year 2007. he has also national theatre Wales production. events in which a suicide bomber is soothed, the Britain in May this year. published short stories, My First Colouring Book . dead rise from an underpass and a community is The Gospel of Us is also a film, “seren’s series of new stories from the Mabinogion... may be the greatest service made to remember itself once more. directed by Dave McKean. to the Welsh national epic since lady Charlotte Guest.” – Guardian

5 fiction fiction 6 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 9781854115683 pb 9781854116475 pb 9781854115836 pb 9781854116505 kindle 9781781720103 kindle 9781854116499 kindle £8.99 pb 9781854115690 e-book 9781781720110 e-book 9781854115935 e-book 9781854115652 Paul Binding Mark Ryan Candy Neubert Christopher Meredith After Brock Seán Tyrone Big Low Tide The Book of Idiots A Symphony of Horror "animal magic on the borders between youth ‘on this side of the reef the orange buoys mark “You will sail through this hilarious black comedy and maturity" – Independent ‘it seemed as if the whole town had died.’ the lobster pots, a string of plastic baubles over at one sitting…. it is a literary masterpiece… a their death-traps, trailing long chains down into thriller in which we guess who survives rather "After Brock shows how natural drama infuses seán o’brien left his wife and son in County the dark. patrick stares after them. this might be than who will die next.” – Gwen Davies, Western human behaviour with resonant meaning, and tyrone to find work as a collier in the south a good time to ask...’ Mail vice versa." – The Spectator Wales Valleys. Years later niamh o’brien is dying and sends her son, Jack, on a quest to find what a small island stands in the channel, barely “this is a fine novel… hard to put down and an “binding successfully combines a riveting story became of his father. he last sent money and a changed by the tides. on its surface, the adventure in meaning.” – Jeremy hooker with a deeper contemplation of the human letter from ‘somewhere called aberuffern’. islanders go about their daily lives aware that it’s condition.” – gwales.com in The Book of Idiots , tipsy, sick Wil Daniel tells the not possible to make a move undetected here, in brilliantly lyrical prose, author and playwright narrator, Dean, a tale that may be a ghost story When eighteen-year-old nat Kempsey goes where everyone knows everybody else; where Mark ryan employs the black humour and wit of or a romance, a farce or a tragedy. missing in the wilds of the berwyn mountains, his the Welsh and irish traditions to tell the story of the neighbours will always notice, and judge. disappearance disturbs secrets that his father, Meanwhile we get glimpses of Dean’s own half- Jack’s odyssey from child to man, and from they know this, but they may have forgotten pete, has kept for thirty-five years. he himself was lived life, and those of friends and colleagues. inexperience to manhood. that it’s always possible to leave. first drawn to this remote land at the same age these threads develop into a dark, offbeat and for reasons both unearthly and unexplained, and illustrated by original woodcuts by the author, Candy neubert is the author of the poetry merciless examination of maleness and at the same time all too human. Seán Tyrone: A Symphony of Horrors , is the collection, Island and the novel Foreign Bodies . mortality. novelisation of his play by the same name, a probing journalist is convinced something is originally performed in Chapter arts Centre, praise for Foreign Bodies : Can Clive regain the triumphs he achieved at the badly awry. it soon becomes clear that the lives . age of nine? Will Jeff stop his swimming trunks “neubert is sympathetic and non-judgmental of both nat and his father are running in from dissolving? throughout, with an understanding of her uncomfortable parallels… Mark ryan was born in london in 1959. after leaving school at 16 he toured in various bands characters and their humanity that shines outstanding in its use of dialogue to reveal this is a story of infatuation, fraught relationships including , appearing in through. this is a novel that draws you in and character, this superbly written novel develops and dysfunctional families, exploring the ’s 1977 film Jubilee . in the late keeps you there.” – into a meditation on kinds of suffering that are boundaries between myth and reality and, above 1980s he gained a degree in music at Dartington no less acute for being routine. “thoughtful and understated, neubert's first all, humanity’s relationship with the natural College of arts. he novel tackles the chasm between the first and Christopher Meredith is a poet and fiction writer. world. worked as a third worlds well, examining the post-colonial his other novels are Shifts, Griffri, and Sidereal playwright, novelist, critic, poet and cultural historian, paul landscape sensitively and with a deft hand.” – Big Time , and seren has published his translation of musician and binding has published over ten books, (four Issue Melog by Mihangel Morgan. he is the author of designer, winning reissued by Faber Finds: Lorca, My Cousin the two collections of poetry, Snaring Heaven and acclaim and Writer, The Still Moment: Eudora Welty and St The Meaning of Flight . awards. Mark died Martin’s Ride ). he has a keen interest in the in 2011 while american south, the low Countries and finalising the text scandinavia. he lives in the Marches. for the novel.

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“in its pointedly expressive fourteen-line poems, a poetry book society recommendation The Mind-Body Problem introduces british readers Winner of the John tripp award Witch is as colourfully dramatic in its way as The to the much-praised and widely published for spoken poetry “a powerful, deeply moving collection whose Crucible , showing how, in the cause of heaven’s american poet and essayist Katha pollitt, who searching, often elegiac, sometimes joyous shortlisted for the Forward prize hue and Cry, self-righteous brutality operates in brings a distinctive blend of wit and lyricism to a poems remind us that grief is not an end, but for best First Collection the mindless everyday. this is an unsettling and profusion of subjects, sad, glad and everywhere another beginning, and that loss drives us, original masterpiece, addressing our world as in between. ranging across jumble-sales, Jane “she captures and subverts cliché for poetry’s inexorably, to a new kind of finding.” much as 1640s england.” – bernard o’Donoghue austen, Chinese poets, birds and flowers and cats purpose, lets sound ring in the lines, weaves – John burnside and dogs, new York City in its crumbling glory, common speech with lyrical language...” “fascinating and deeply unsettling” – Wales Arts “the care and cares of this book, its heartbroken, mothers in the playground and hermits in the – Gillian Clarke Review exacting integrity, mark an important desert, pollitt gives a modern, paradoxical twist “the unique voice lies in the music of the With the narrative pull of a novel and the development in her work, enhancing its to philosophical and political conundrums – how language, a distinctly un-english sound, often in vibrancy of a play for voices, Damian Walford technical and emotional strength, range and do you write an anti-war poem that isn’t also a a minor key, elegiac but with unexpected leaps Davies’ Witch offers a thrilling portrait of a suffolk versatility.” – ian Duhig pat on the back to the ever-so-sensitive poet? – of the imagination. ” – hugo Williams village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of and, in a brilliant central section, re-imagines in Burying the Wren , Deryn rees-Jones returns to the mid-seventeenth century. the poems in this biblical stories. admirers of Wyslawa szymborska “astounding Welsh poet with performances that familiar preoccupations but with a new clarity collection are dark spells, compact and moving: will recognize a kindred spirit, balanced between get you in the emotional gut...” – ian McMillan and maturity of vision. With intense lyricism she seven sections, each of seven poems, each of amusement and melancholy at the endlessly calls on the roethkean ‘small things’ of the seven couplets, are delivered by those most fascinating world. Clueless Dogs is the eagerly awaited debut from universe – truffles, slugs, trilobites, birds, stones, closely involved in the ‘making’ of a witch. the Welsh performer, poet and musician rhian feathers, flowers, eggs – which, mysterious and “pollitt speaks with an engagingly matter-of-fact speakers – including thomas love the priest, the edwards. her poems bristle with sensual wit, magical as well as ordinary – she sets up against wisdom, balancing seriousness and humour, the villagers who slowly succumb to suspicion and chronicling her childhood in bridgend, south loss. her ‘Dogwoman’ sequence, which draws on long view and the moment of intensity. her work counter-accusation, the ‘discoverer of witches’ Wales, and her relationships between family, the work of artist paula rego, is an extended will delight british readers with its eye for detail, Francis hurst, and the ‘witch’ herself – friends and lovers. her eye for vivid detail and elegy to her late husband, the poet and critic its lyric grace and its unpretentious humanity.” authentically conjure a war-torn society in which talent for a dark tone are offset by a sly satirical Michael Murphy. above all, these are poems of – Carol rumens religious paranoia amplifies local grievances to humour and a true gusto for experience. the body, “the blue heartstopping pulse at the fever pitch. Witch is a damning parable that “it’s awfully good to have such a great-hearted wrist”, which are alive to the world and the rhian’s pamphlet Parade the Fib was the poetry chimes with the terror and anxieties of our own poet as Katha pollitt take on mortality’s darkest transformative qualities of love. book society pamphlet Choice in 2008 and her haunted age. themes.” – Kay ryan, us poet laureate poems have been published in the TLS, Poetry Deryn rees-Jones has written extensively on Damian Walford Davies is head of the “You’d think little new could be said about Review, Spectator, Areté, Poetry London, Poetry twentieth-century women’s poetry. in 2004 she Department of english and Creative Writing at ageing and the passage of time, but it is Wales and London Magazine . she has delivered was named as one of the ‘next Generation’ poets aberystwyth university. he is the author of two freshness that strikes us, astonishing yet over 300 stage and radio performances world- by the poetry book society. she won a previous volumes of poetry, including Suit of proverbial, in Katha pollitt’s new book.” wide, including hay, laugharne and latitude. Cholmondeley award in 2010 and teaches Lights (seren). – George szirtes literature at the university of liverpool.

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Duncan bush is one of Wales’ most significant “Mundy writes sparky verse that has a broad Winner of the John tripp award “Check here for the meeting of form with voices. The Flying Trapeze , his eagerly awaited reach. the poems are always entertaining for for spoken poetry freedom, for tradition and for avant garde and sixth poetry collection, is characteristically their formal play and their lively lingo. Mundy for examples of the kind of splendid literary On Becoming a Fish was inspired by a series of unsentimental, tough-minded, and fiercely can be cheeky, he can be rueful but he is always shenanigans that only real poets can succeed at walks around the 186 mile pembrokeshire lyrical. Many poems are inspired by places he has passionate.” – Daljit nagra in a verse which melds two cultures into an coastal path, known for its spectacular views lived in or travelled to including australia, exciting whole.” – peter Finch More for Helen of Troy is suffused with the from cliffside paths. Deeply engaged with Greece, Germany, France, luxembourg and the atmosphere of the landscapes that inspire the environmental issues through her work in “because Grahame Davies forever makes the united states. in ‘avedon’s Drifters’ he chronicles poet: the lush countryside of powys, italy, and a community energy and climate change, the perfect imperfect sense, the smallest things marginal lives as portrayed in masterly black & number of islands all over the world – Grenada, author is also a keen observer of human nature exploding into God or language or the sea itself. white photographs: vagrants, gypsies, minor Jamaica, shetland. it is also deeply involved with in the context of this beautiful coastline. the that’s the surprise of the poem, the ease of a criminals, the burnt-out, the bereft. in contrast many questions of desire: for the ideal of a poems feature ghosts, quarries, shipwrecks, great writer: that you don’t notice the lightning there are poems like ‘a blood rose’ steeped in beautiful woman; for the hope of a good state, pirates, fishermen, sailors; the remnants of as it emerges from the depths, but what it the full-blooded colours of the tango, and for the vision of a pristine country and seaside. industry as well as monuments from the past: illuminates. no need to answer. read the poems. ‘Golden Girl’ in praise of superlative athletes. the tension between all these ideals, between neolithic burial sites, forts, caves, graves, Grahame Davies is a known treasure in Welsh, there is also bitter political satire in pieces like lofty aims and inevitable disappointments, come memorials. also present are characters conjured and now we english-speakers get to share the ‘Mitterand’s last supper’, ‘a season in sarajevo’ together in the main title sequence, where an from history such as the ‘four hundred Welsh wealth.” – bob holman and ‘lahore’. there are some fine, unexpected entire society must scheme and suffer for the Women wearing stovepipe hats’ who foiled the nature poems, which pinpoint the tension in his already well-known for his prizewinning Welsh- allure of helen. sometimes keenly satirical, as in last invasion of britain at Carregwastad in 1797, poetry between a sensual rapture and a language poetry and fiction, and for his ‘society haiku’, and often poignantly lyrical as in as well as contemporary encounters: a retired knowing cynicism. The Flying Trapeze is an scholarly non-fiction, Grahame Davies has now ‘translated Daughter’, these poems are both fisherman, lifeboat crew, a lighthouse keeper excellent new collection, never less than subtle, produced his first collection of poems in pointed and enjoyable. and a skinny-dipper. smart and true. english. using a native warmth and an intimate, simon Mundy has written three previous books a writer, performer and community arts conversational tone, his poems are as Duncan bush is a poet, novelist, dramatist, of poems and three novels (two under the pen facilitator, emily hinshelwood’s poetry has been concerned with character and relationships as translator and documentary writer. his poetry name James eno), and biographies of classical published in many literary magazines. she has they are with wider cultural matters. collections Aquarium and Salt were both musicians including tchaikovsky, purcell and won the John tripp award for spoken poetry, awarded the Welsh arts Council prize for poetry Grahame Davies is a poet, novelist, editor and elgar. he has directed festivals in scotland and and was shortlisted for the bridport prize and the and have been republished in a single volume, literary critic, author of 15 books in Welsh and holland and broadcast for over thirty years on Forward prize for best individual poem in 2010. The Hook. Masks was a poetry book society english, whose numerous prizes include the bbC radio 3 and 4. he collaborates with after an early career as an anthropologist in the recommendation and 1995 arts Council of Wales book of the Year. he has a degree in musicians, visual artists and dancers, and has field of sustainable development for oxfam, Wales book of the Year. he is the author of english from anglia ruskin university, read his work all over the world. he was the actionaid, and various un agencies, she moved several novels, including The Genre of Silence , Cambridge, and a phD from . founder of the european Forum for the arts and to Wales in 1997 and lectured at swansea Glass Shot , and All the Rage . based in Cardiff, he travels internationally as a heritage (now Culture action europe) and university before concentrating on writing and reader and lecturer. advises unesCo and the Council of europe. he environmental work. she has two daughters and has lived in the border hills of Wales since 1982. runs a smallholding with her partner.

11 poetry poetry 12 £8.99 9781854115553 pb £12.99 £14.99 9781854116420 kindle £12.99 9781854115829 pb 9781854115805 pb 9781854116413 e-book 9781854115812 pb september september Meirion Jordan Tony Curtis (ed) Keidrych Rhys Judy Kendall (ed) Regeneration Tokens for the Foundlings The Van Pool: Collected Poems Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas’ Letters to Walter de la Mare Regeneration is Welsh poet Meirion Jordan’s take “the mark of a fine anthology is not just that it Keidrych rhys was one of the most influential on the medieval manuscripts known today as explores a theme, not even just that it raises writers in Wales in the 1940s and 1950s, the this book reveals the copious correspondence llyfr Coch hergest and llyfr Gwyn rhydderch awareness for a cause, but also that it draws, result of his own practice as a poet, his editorship between influential writer and poet edward (the red book of hergest and the White book of maybe surprises, good new work from its writers. of Wales magazine and his taste for controversial thomas and Walter de la Mare: 318 letters from rhydderch). this is not a ‘reinterpretation’ but a this one is specific, historically rooted, but on an polemic, which included attacks on the between 1906 and 1917, of which only three re-imagining, inspired by source material that important human level, touches all of us.” bloomsbury set. , Glyn Jones, have been previously published. include the stories of the Mabinogi myth cycle as – philip Gross , emyr humphreys, alun lewis, well as by Mallory’s version of King arthur’s tales. rs thomas and many others were among his the letters provide crucial new evidence about “there aren’t many museums in london that circle of friends and literary acquaintances; he thomas’ poetic processes and the start of his in red book we meet characters drawn from the have the power to move you to tears, but the was married, sometimes tempestuously, to the mature poetry. they also show the mutual eleven stories of the Mabinogi. these poems Foundling Museum is one of them. the poet lynette roberts. he relocated to london at support the two poets enjoyed, and give new evoke what Meirion Jordan calls in his insightful collection of tokens left behind by mothers who the end of the 50s where he tried to revive Wales information on the closeness of the thomas and preface ‘half-recalled heroic landscapes’. they had given up their babies, is a mute, poignant and took part in the literary scene. de la Mare families. they include some beautiful capture the elusive essence of these characters, testimony to the power of the bond between natural descriptions and chart thomas’ progress their mysterious passions and their sometimes mother and child, a bond which is eloquently this book brings together The Van Pool (Faber, as a reviewer and writer. the physical spacing in violent and often strange adventures in Jordan’s expanded in the poems set out in this book.” 1942), rhys’ only poetry collection, and a variety the letters provides evidence of often hurried distinctive poetic style. his pared-down pure – Daisy Goodwin, in her Foreword of uncollected and unpublished poems. an and tired writing but also of a sensitivity to what lyricism, and tightly enjambed free-verse lines established in 1741, the Foundling hospital was extensive introduction provides a biographical is not said, to pauses, to rhythm, which prefigure bring brevity and clarity to these tales without britain’s first orphanage: admissions to it were and critical context to a writer whose taste for his poems. his idiosyncratic handwriting also subtracting their unsettling power to move us. catalogued by tokens left by the children’s controversy undermined his poetic career. underlines key ideas about poetic composition the long poem White book treats themes of parents. Tokens for the Foundlings is an anthology editor Charles Mundye is a lecturer in english at and illuminates his understanding of his journey love, betrayal, friendship, kinship, and the vexed of poems about orphans, childhood and family the university of hull. he has published a book from prose writer to poet. inspired by and supporting the Foundling question of leadership, in poems that revolve on ezra pound and edited the work of laura the letters are arranged chronologically, divided Museum in bloomsbury. it brings together many around the figure of King arthur as hero. the riding and robert Graves. he is especially into three sections: 1906-09 the reviewer and of the finest poets from britain, ireland and the footnotes provide for scale, casting the great interested in the relationship between music the poet; 1910-13 two Writers; 1913-17 two usa, among them seamus heaney, Carol ann themes of arthur’s story against a backdrop of and literature. Jim perrin provides a Foreword. poets. the introduction highlights essential Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Carol rumens, Michael real lives, lived in the landscapes that inspired points, in particular revelations about both longley, George szirtes and Charles simic. the orginal myths. poets’ writing processes and how thomas’ Meirion Jordan studied Mathematics at , tony Curtis is the author of several collections of criticism of De la Mare’s verse informs his own. poetry and books on art and editor of many where he won the newdigate prize, and has an editor Dr Judy Kendall, programme leader for anthologies. Ma in creative writing from uea. Moonrise was english and Creative Writing at university of shortlisted for the Forward prize for best First royalties from sales of this book are donated to salford, is an edward thomas specialist. her Collection and his pamphlet, ‘strangers hall’ was the Foundling Museum, in support of its work. publications include Out of the Dark: Edward shortlisted for the east anglia book of the Year. www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk Thomas’s Processes.

13 poetry poetry | letters 14 £9.99 9781854115911 pb £14.99 £8.99 9781781720127 kindle £9.99 9781854115850 pb 9781854115881 pb 9781854116093 e-book 9781854116482 pb september september september october John Redmond Liam Carson Imogen Rhia Herrad Nigel Jenkins Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Call Mother a Lonely Field Beyond the Pampas: Real Swansea Two Public Interpretations of In Search of Patagonia Call Mother a Lonely Field mines the emotional Real Swansea Two is a further look at his Contemporary British & Irish Poetry archaeology of family, home and language, the Beyond the Pampas explores the lives of the hometown by poet nigel Jenkins. With descendents of nineteenth-century Welsh Poetry and Privacy is a groundbreaking book on author’s attempts to break their tethers, and the characteristic insight, humour and an eye for the settlers in argentina. imogen herrad discovers a the continuing relationship between poetry and refuge he finds within them. Carson confronts odd and unusual Jenkins explores the parts of fascinating melding of Welsh and spanish society which questions the function of and the the complex relationship between a son the city which he was forced by constraints of cultures through which she explores heritage need for poetry outside the academic and thinking in english, a father dreaming in irish, space to omit from Real Swansea . his subjects and identity. she also considers the plight of literary worlds, and investigates the effects of and a mother who, after raising five children include sport, the , drama, sex patagonia’s indigenous peoples, the tehuelche the wider society on the practice of poetry. through irish, is no longer comfortable speaking and drugs, refugees and asylum seekers, key and Mapuche, and the differences between redmond’s writing is full of insight into both this it in the violent reality of 1970s belfast. buildings such as the Guildhall, the Glynn Vivian metropolitan buenos aires and the rural and the national Waterfront Museum, and general subject and the individual poets the author’s irish-speaking, West belfast hinterland. the whole is underpinned by her districts such as Morriston, the hafod and through whose work he approaches it. childhood is described through still-present personal journey of self-discovery, from an sandfields. From Dylan thomas’ Kardomah café echoes of the second World War, dystopian in essays on Derek Mahon, Glyn Maxwell, robert abusive childhood in Germany to acceptance in and the Grand theatre to brothels and the Welsh science fiction, american comic books and punk Minhinnick, seamus heaney, sylvia plath, John the communities of Wales and patagonia. school of architectural Glass, from pier burnside, Vona Groarke, David Jones and W.s. rock. at the same time he explores how irish herrad’s openness to new experience and her to llangyfelach and from salubrious passage to Graham, John redmond seeks to introduce a language, literature and stories are transmitted wonder at the natural world result in a rich and the national Waterfront Musuem, all swansea sense of pragmatism into the relationships from mouth to mouth. after years in london and evocative depiction of the exotic places in which life is here, celebrated in stylish prose and pin between poetry and criticism (academe) and , the deaths of his parents bring Carson a she finds herself, from camping under the stars sharp poetry. poetry and social or political relevance. the new sense of community and understanding as in the andes to whale-watching on the atlantic essays in this book offer fresh appraisals of he heals his fractured relationship with irish. his nigel Jenkins is a poet, a prize-winning prose coast, and from the Welsh-speaking tea rooms of noteworthy poets while creating a portrait of rediscovery of the language as a sanctuary is writer, and editor of the Welsh Encyclopaedia Chubut to the museums of lost indian peoples. british and irish poetry in a new century in central to a book exploring the potency of (uWp). he has written about Gower, and the which, in politics, society and poetry, there is a vanishing worlds, be they childhood, a city or a both a travelogue and a history of the Welsh in impact of the Welsh in india in the award- broad sense of an ending. way of life. patagonia and of the indigenous people they winning Khasia in Gwalia . he is currently a mixed with, on a contemporary level the book lecturer in english at the university of swansea John redmond is a senior lecturer in Creative liam Carson was born in 1962 and educated in a describes how the settlers have been integrated and is well known and energetically active in Writing at the university of liverpool. his Catholic school in belfast before reading english into argentinian society, while retaining aspects swansea’s cultural life. research interests are divided between Creative literature and philosophy at uCD. During the of their culture, including the language. Writing, especially poetry, and more traditional 1980s he lived in squats in london, taking a research areas including twentieth-Century variety of blue collar jobs. returning to ireland born and brought up in Germany, imogen british literature, twentieth-Century american he worked for many years in publishing. he is herrad has lived in london and argentina, and literature, twentieth-Century poetry, american currently the director of the iMraM irish now divides her time between Cardiff and pragmatism, and irish studies. he is particularly language literature Festival, which he founded Cologne. she writes in German and english. she interested in the intersection between literature in 2004. his reviews, critical articles, essays and is the author of The Woman Who Loved an and various forms of virtual reality. poems have appeared in a wide range of literary Octopus . publications.

15 criticism | memoir travel | topography 16 £9.99 £9.99 pb 9781854115867 pb £14.99 9781854115669 9781781720134 kindle 9781854115546 pb 9781854116437 kindle 9781781720226 e-book october 9781854115676 e-book october D. Huw Owen John Morris Steve Wilkins The Chapels of Wales Jack the Ripper: The Pembrokeshire Murders: The Hand of a Woman Detecting the Bullseye Killer this is a gazetteer of more than 100 chapels, which played such a central role in the faith, the Jack the ripper murders of 1888 exert a this is the story of operation ottawa, the cold culture and history of nineteenth- and macabre hold on our imagination. among the case detection of John Cooper for two twentieth-century Wales, and whose influence first serial murders, their brutality and pembrokeshire double killings: the scoveston continues into the present century, despite an bizarreness, and the seeming impossibility of Manor murder of richard and helen thomas in alarming closure rate of two a week. owen’s detection have a terrible fascination. What kind 1985 and the pembrokeshire Coastal path comprehensive survey records some of the of person could have overstepped the boundary murder of peter and Gwenda Dixon in 1989. buildings now being lost and explores the life to of what marks humankind and perform such Detective Chief superintendent steve Wilkins be found within those which remain. it begins horrific deeds? how could they not have been tells how he gathered a specialist team to review with a campaigning introduction and each entry caught by the unprecedented police effort? the murders, used cutting edge forensic techniques to prove Cooper’s involvement in the includes a discussion of the architectural the murders were reported on around the world importance of the chapel, its historical and crimes, and how the tv programme Bullseye led and the murderer was the first to be given a to a crucial identification. the dramatic timeline cultural significance, its current spiritual health macabre nickname. he has been the subject of and photographs of exteriors and interiors. involves psychological profiling, Cooper’s hundreds of books and several films but his responses to questioning, the relationship owen explores Welsh and english-speaking identity remains a mystery. suspects have between police and media in the arrest and the chapels in all parts of the country, and ventures included the eminent Victorian doctor sir predicament of the victims’ families during the into the Welsh diaspora, taking in chapels in William Gull, royal gynecologist sir John Williams long years when the cases remained unsolved. liverpool, london, oswestry, oregon, and the painter Walter sickert. Conspiracy philadelphia, Melbourne, toronto, and Gaiman theories abound, involving Masonic, Jewish and the combination of painstaking evidence (patagonia). other connections. gathering, new forensics, psychological profiling, and careful detection made operation D. huw owen is a former keeper of pictures and this is the story of the extensive research of John ottawa the template for subsequent murder Maps at the national library of Wales. he is a Morris and his late father. starting with the many enquiries. now, for the first time, the lead member of the presbyterian Church of Wales, and unresolved questions about the murders they detective tells the story of how a vicious killer of Chapel – the Welsh Chapels heritage society, shockingly concluded that they could be was brought to justice. and is a trustee of the Welsh religious buildings answered if Jack was in reality a woman, not a trust. his Welsh language survey of Welsh man. but who could she be? after many twists steve Wilkins has been a Detective for 27 years of Chapels, Capeli Cymru , was published in 2005. and turns they reach an all too plausible his 29 years police service and has worked as conclusion… senior investigation officer on numerous cases. his co-author Jonathan hill is a leading reporter John Morris is a solicitor in Dublin, where he and presenter on itV Wales news for almost 20 works for the Carlyle institute. years. he has also made news documentaries for network broadcast, including The Bullseye Murderer , about the Cooper case.

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