Books published by Poetry Wales Press

A work of autobiographical fiction celebrating the fascinating world of the imagination, being a novel of eighteen short stories exploring the complex nature of deceptive appearances and reality. Reprint; first published in 1991, and this new edition first appeared in 2001.

Collects writings from Welsh authors about the Christmas holiday.

Lynne Hjelmgaard movingly recollects her life and loves: there are poems to her late husband as well as to her mentor and partner, the renowned Welsh poet Dannie Abse, who died in 2014. Other pieces transport us to New York, Denmark, The Caribbean, and London. Her lyrics are precise, warm in tone, and suffused with optimism for the future.

Winner of the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize 2018J ane Lovell's poems are both beautiful and disturbing. A deep feeling for the natural world is aligned with an acute lyric sensibility, as well as a profound ethical awareness of our responsibility for the planet and the devastation of its landscapes and vulnerable species.

Nula Roberts looks back on the abrupt and devastating onset of her husband's dementia, and the eventual happy ending for Nula and a person in a similar situation to her that eventually followed.

Twenty years ago the lives of the Power family were taken: a mother, two daughters and their grandmother. But was an innocent man wrongfully convicted of this horrific crime? In the new edition of The Clydach Murders, author and solicitor John Morris reveals new information, making a forensic and compelling case ahead of Dai Morris' latest appeal.

Real Preseli incorporates history, memoir and personal experience to produce an entertaining and informative guide to this special corner of rural, coastal Wales. Osmond s readable text and offbeat photographs combine to make a memorable exploration of this part of Pembrokeshire, for natives, tourists and armchair travellers alike.

Seren Poetry Editor Amy Wack has compiled this succinct regional pamphlet: Poems from the Welsh Borders. Readers will find familiar names like Owen Sheers and Nicholas Murray, as well as new voices like Rhiannon Hooson and Jonathan Edwards. The poems celebrate the spirit of this richly storied, geographically stunning region.

Catherine Fisher‿s The Bramble King includes poems on imaginary planets and princes, on the summer solstice, on drawing, on a glass shop and a clockwork crow: rich tales with imaginative twists and unexpected characters. A prolific author of acclaimed children‿s fantasy fiction, Catherine has published three previous poetry collections with Seren.

Lime, Lemon and Sarsaparilla is a wonderful evocation of Italian life in south Wales from the turn of the century to the post-war years, when the Italian cafe was central to the social life of many small communities in the valleys and follows the fortunes of Italian families such as Rabaiotti, Berni, Bracchi, Conti, Fulgoni, Sidoli and many others.

Stowaway is a richly imagined poetic journey revolving around the nameless anti-Ulysses figure at its centre. Journeys of both memory and dream hold out alluring visions of port cities and `Islands, Islands, each with its secrets' in the eastern Mediterranean, yet also recall bloody histories and the darker side of rootlessness.

No Far Shore is no ordinary exploration of coastlines. Fyfe combines travel writing, history, memoir and poetry in an intriguing meditation on the sea, the land, and the maps, lighthouses, islands, north, maps, journeys and other things which mark them. In the process, Fyfe also journeys into her past, and her family's, and the sea's effect on it.

The author of "Iris Murdoch: A Life" looks back on the complexities of his family relations and the situation of his family attempting to integrate as European Jews in Britain, as well as his later friendship with Murdoch.

Erato takes its title from the muse of lyric poetry. Drawing on brief, documentary-style narratives of her life, combined with lyric reinventions, Deryn Rees-Jones asks questions about past, present and future, about the slippages of memory, all our errors and erasures, and the places we inhabit when processing trauma.

From Seven to the Sea explores the emotions of childhood as seven-year-old Esther valiantly negotiates adult dysfunction, and prejudice and injustice at school. It is a window onto the world of a child who rejects convention and embarks on a creative expedition into liberty and freethinking; who, each day, in place of school, sets out to sea.

Gen is a book of lions and rock stars, day trips and servants, postmen and voices. Costa Prize-winning poet Jonathan Edwards offers up a witty celebration of a Welsh Valleys youth, with affectionate portraits of family members, real and imagined Welsh histories, and a range of pop culture icons including Kurt Cobain and Harry Houdini.