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.

Way More Than Luck is the eagerly-awaited poetry collection from noted young critic and author Ben Wilkinson. At the heart of the book is a series of poems inspired by a lifelong devotion to Liverpool Football Club. We meet former players, coaches and re-live moments of both stoic despair and wild joy. Vivid themes are adroitly enacted in poetic forms.

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.

The Other Tiger: Contemporary Latin American Poetry is a new and much-needed bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry featuring 90 Spanish-speaking poets from Latin and South America. Translator Richard Gwyn has selected from post-war poets from Cuba to Argentina, and from established names like Fondebrider to new voices like Carolina Davila.

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.

Deaton's poems are finely attuned and alert to the tensions in relationships, partly attributable to a difficult father figure, 'like a wounded bear', who haunts much of this book. A Watchful Astronomy is full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion.

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.

This new, expanded edition of Welsh Quilts is an authoritative guide to the history and art of the quilt in Wales. Expert author Jen Jones has added many new, high quality colour images - some never seen before - and four patterns for practitioners to work from. Textile legend Kaffe Fassett has written a Foreword to the book.

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.

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.

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.