Books published by Cinnamon Press

Second poetry collection by the American author, resident in the UK, exploring the imperfections and failures of memory found in private and public life and in the Arts themselves. -- Cinnamon Press

All the Different Darknesses explores our sense of what lies within or beyond the everyday, taking inspiration from the lives of objects, as well as familial memories and disturbances emerging from '... the different darknesses'.

Drawing on the author's experiences of the war in Northern Ireland and weaving a dark beauty that is poignant but never mawkish, these poems examine the concept of home: a shifting place that offers boundless possibility. This is poetry with a filmic quality, aware that the camera, like memory, can deceive as easily as illuminate.

A book of lyrical landscape poetry set in the Cambridgeshire Fens and with a mission to revise and overturn common impressions of this landscape, powerfully revealing the intrinsic interest, peculiarity and dynamism of the Fens. -- Cinnamon Press

The Love Life of Bus Shelters uses the sequence form to uncover a quasi-allegorical significance in urban spaces and institutions. It's quirkily witty and accessible but it bristles with defamiliarising and sometimes profound insights.

An astonishing and delightful new poetry collection.

Gail Ashton's Not the Sky - a memoir up-ends a West Midlands working-class childhood and chaotic family to re-imagine the present. -- Cinnamon Press

Locked inside himself, young Simeon Isherwood undergoes a radical and dangerous new gene therapy in the hope of freeing his senses and turning his mind towards the outer world. Meanwhile, an alien and god-like entity is moved to help a suffering mind it thinks of as its own offspring - with catastrophic results. -- Cinnamon Press

In Untergang, David Batten moves offers a sequence that is internally reflective, almost claustrophobic. Starting indoors in the dark of a power cut in the depth of winter and finishing inside the writer's ribcage, this is not a world without hope, but it is one that urgently needs to wake, to face the dark and change it.

Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking, writer in Cardiff, author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Each section is a free-standing short story but read together they form an untrustworthy autobiography.

Poetry about politics and society

Poetry pamphlet on the theme of Parkinson's Disease

Brimming with wit, moments of acute observation and imagination, and written in a wry, self-deprecating Billy Collins-esque style, Will Kemp's third collection is replete with refreshing images for the things that enrich life, from clouds to sport, art to music. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

There's a lovely spare clarity to the beautifully sculpted prose poems that make up Lines in the Sky - a sense of poignancy that is always well controlled as themes of love, loss, memory, family and friendship weave together. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Set in Serbia during the First World War, the lives of a brave soldier and a patriotic medical orderly interweave. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

What Rain Taught Us follows a mind fracturing into a subjective landscape of association, reflection and invention, where words, images and conflicting voices tumble and echo almost to the point of destruction. But, gradually, islands of stability form. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Past and present, success and failure, magic and courage are swirled together in a story that brings a new voice to the myths, legends and traditions of folk and fairy tales. On their first night in Aunt Aggie's cottage on the Hebridean Isle of Tiree, Merryn and Hamish McQueen begin an exciting, but terrifying adventure to rescue Kester, a horse trapped in a fencepost by a witch.

Set on one day in 1979, The Fern Hedge explores the interconnected lives of three women - Alice, her daughter Kate, and grand-daughter Joanne. It is Alice's 80th birthday and she detests birthdays. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru