Books published by Poetry Wales Press

Eat better, cheaper, more ethically: The Occasional Vegan includes 100 delicious recipes for vegans, would-be vegans and those who want a change. Author and cook Sarah Philpott links her recipes to her journey to becoming a vegan in a books which caters for all occasions, from snacking to Christmas. With beautiful colour photographs of the dishes.

A secret she promised to keep, a boy with hair like fire, and a terrible accident - they're all connected, if only May could remember how. May's lost memories compel those close to her to relive the defining moments that set them on their current course. Naomi Kruger's unforgettable debut explores memory, regret and the past's hold on the present.

Waterfalls of Stars is Rosanne Alexander's love letter to Skomer Island, the nature reserve where she spent ten years as a warden. It portrays a relationship with nature enthralling in its immediacy and engages readers as she cares for Skomer's bird and seal colonies while exploring her own character during periods of isolation from the mainland.

Borders are a huge topic today, part of our zeitgeist. What do they mean? How do we define them? In Crossings Nicholas Murray considers the borders hehas confronted - geographic, cultural, linguistic, social, class, religious, sexual - and reflects on the influence of borders on how we think of ourselves and others, in his typically dynamic style.

Television naturalist Iolo Williams' guide to Wales' top 40 nature sites is fully illustrated by beautiful colour photographs of place and wildlife. The sites are spread across Wales and in Wild Places Williams surveys the flora and fauna to be found on them, and aims to encourage more visits to them by people from Wales and beyond.

Siobhan Campbell is an Irish author noted for poems characterized by keen intelligence, cool skepticism, rich textures and wryly witty observations. Her new collection from Seren, Heat Signature, continues her fascination with power and responsibility as she skewers our most cherished notions in sharply memorable poems.

A much-needed exploration of motherhood as both political space and a complex personal experience, this book''s skewering literary portraits of contemporary motherhood contend with the tender and torturous issues raised when a woman dares to do both. Contributors include Carol Ann Duffy, Sharon Olds and Hollie McNish.

In Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin Jonathan Miles explores the four years which Gill and Jones spent in Gill''s religious and artistic community in the Black Mountains of Wales and discovers that it was hugely significant time for both. For Jones it was a cultural homecoming. For Gill it was an opportunity to experiment spiritually and sexually.

Unearthing the horrors of the GDR doping system for athletes drags ex Olympic swimmer Sophie brutally deep into the nightmare past she is trying so hard to hide from. Dark Mermaids is a gripping literary thriller by Anne Lauppe-Dunbar.

Robert Graves' war poems collected together in one volume, including the previously unpublished collection, "The Patchwork Flag". Edited by Charles Mandye, who also wrote an introduction and provides explanatory notes. *Also appeared in June Buyer's Notes*

Inspired by her years as an Immigration Caseworker to one of the most diverse inner-city areas in the UK, Caroline Smith has written a collection of poems, The Immigration Handbook, that details the many troubling and moving incidents in the lives of those she tries to help. This is a book that reaches out of the headlines into our hearts.

Peter Finch''s volume on 20th century popular music travels from 50s Cardiff to Ireland, New York, Tennessee, Mississippi and North Carolina. The Roots of Rock is a memoir and exploration of musical places and of music''s ability to create a world of and beyond the place in which it is heard. It also reflects on how music once defined society and is now just a mouse click away.

The Art of Falling is Kim Moore's keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from Seren. A young poet from Cumbria, she writes with a compelling directness and power about her life and the lives of others. Already a winner of multiple prizes, such as the Northern Promise Award (2014) Moore writes poems that are both moving and memorable.

A light-hearted exploration of the fate of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. By former National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis.

Playing House, the debut collection of poetry from Katherine Stansfield, features a concise wit, a distinct voice, and an unsettling view of the domestic with ordinary subjects viewed through the author's satirical yet sympathetic eye. John Lennon's tooth, an imaginary Canada, bees in Rhode Island, jetlag, and office politics are all peculiar grist to this author's mill. She presents both historical subjects, such as Captain Scott of the Antarctic, and common objects, such as household bleach, with a skewed perspective, adding humor, drama, and a quietly distinctive pathos.

Fauverie, the new Seren poetry collection by Pascale Petit is named after the Parisian zoo that haunts her imagination. This book has childhood trauma and a dying father at its heart, while Paris takes centre stage, a theatre haunted by Aramis the black jaguar and the wild animals of the menagerie.