Caroline Goodwin’s Matanuska is good for what ails you, from snow-blindness to work-worn hands to the heaviness of grief. Each poem in this remarkable collection begins with the name of a plant, as well as the Covid-related death toll on the day the poem was composed. With the pandemic as... ... Read More
Aquifer
THE PRESS
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Dorothy Lehane: House Girl
The girl in the sequence is diseased and stigmatised, locked away in the house. Siblings perform diagnostic ceremonies and make home-made treatments using potions from the natural world. With a sense... ... Read More
Sarah Crewe: ‘garn’
garn re-imagines Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and places her in the twenty-first century, cutting across landscapes from Liverpool to London. The book positions her through a series... ... Read More
‘Rhapsodies’ – Graham Hartill
Graham Hartill on Rhapsodies: Rhapsodies is a pretty wide book I think, a selection from a decade’s work; it contains nine... ... Read More
‘By Tiny Twisting Ways’ – Ian Davidson
Ian Davidson's poetry is both moving and full of movement. It explores what it takes to weather a landscape,... ... Read More
‘Resonance Field’ by David Annwn
This collection of recent poems 2016-2020 engages with the world perceived as shifting fields of magnetic energy and includes selected images from... ... Read More
‘Canalchemy: The Lager Kilns’ by Steven Hitchins
The Lager Kilns gathers together texts and images created by Steven Hitchins for The Canalchemy... ... Read More
‘Canalchemy: The Lying-Down Tower’ by Lyndon Davies
The Canalchemy Project was initiated by poet Steven Hitchins in 2017, in collaboration... ... Read More
‘The Handle of the Door’ by Christopher Twigg
The Handle of the Door is Christopher Twigg’s first new collection since A Cherub that Sees Them (2003)... ... Read More
‘floss’ by Sarah Crewe
floss is an exploration of working class feminist psychogeography, via flick, a woman thing and a phantom dog named floss. The poems explore sites of erasure and loss in Central... ... Read More
The Edge of Necessary
The Edge of Necessary is the first ever anthology of contemporary innovative Welsh and Wales-connected poetry in English. Wales has a strong tradition of dis-established, linguistically challenging literatures, and... ... Read More
Lyndon Davies: Resemblance
Resemblance contains a selection of prose-pieces written over twenty years or so, some being published here for the first time. Most are about literature, but some are about much more than literature,... ... Read More
