Lyndon Davies’ fourth collection takes a high-dive into the vast but weirdly personal and particular mysteries of place and belonging. Shifting through forms, registers and perspectives, part journal, part improvisation, part hallucination, Bridge 116 explores a vision of locality both specific and haunted by many kinds of news from elsewhere. "This is a great... ... Read More
Aquifer
THE PRESS
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Suze de Lee
‘Soemps’ by Suze de Lee
Soemps wears its hearts and voices on its richly embroidered sleeves. Hypnotically accumulative, drifting through memory, emotion and fantasy, it's a colloquy... ... Read More
Anthony Mellors
‘Confessional Sonnets’ by Anthony Mellors
"What are these sonnets anyway but moths / without candles or crow's pickings from which / allusions... ... Read More
David Greenslade
SIGNS LIKE THIS
Here street signs, street lettering and street text become poems. No longer reminding, instructing, identifying and informing - signs announce their individual voices. They cheer and mourn, reflect, object, speculate and mythologise. ‘To the shops’ becomes a slip of the tongue,... ... Read More
Rhys Trimble
‘SWANSEA AUTOMATIC’ by Rhys Trimble
"Swansea Automatic is Rhys Trimble's most ambitious work to date, and it confirms his status as the most inventive... ... Read More
Graham Hartill, Phil Maillard, Chris Torrance
Slipping the Leash
This book selects from the work of three much-published poets, Graham Hartill, Phil Maillard and Chris Torrance, who all moved to Wales in the 1970's.... ... Read More
Steven Hitchins
the ‘White City’ by Steven Hitchins
Steven Hitchins' the White City is a participatory sensing expedition that allows readers to explore the... ... Read More
Lyndon Davies
A COLOMBER IN THE HOUSE OF POESY
The Colomber, a mysterious shark-like creature, borrowed from a short story by Dino Buzzati, presides over Lyndon Davies‘ third collection of poetry. The mariners’... ... Read More
About Aquifer
Aquifer Books, based in Powys, publishes collections of poetry with an experimental edge, but also wants to delve into the kinds of writing that writers and artists do in the in-between places, in, for instance, notebooks, diaries, letters, email exchanges, journals and so on. Aquifer also hopes to experiment with new combinations and configurations of work in various genres and media, bringing writers together with practitioners in quite other fields of expertise. Editor: Lyndon Davies PLEASE NOTE: UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. WE CANNOT... ... Read More
