Martina Evans's third collection of poems begins and ends in the dentist's chair. In between come stories ranging from an Irish childhood to present-day London, featuring voices from the poet's own to those of her family, her cat, and a supporting ca...

In the food chain, language is the harrier. How it craves young breath. Yn y gadwyn fwyd iaith ydyw'r boda ac mae'n rhaid cael cnawd ac anadlu ifanc os yw'r heliwr am fyw. from Gwyneth Lewis, "Ewyllys yr Iaith" / "The Language's Will and Testament"...

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547) was known to his contemporaries as "the most accomplished gentleman of his age", noble learned and elegant. A man of his time, at the centre of the dangerous power games of the court of Henry VIII, Surrey was...

Celebrating D. J. Enright's 70th birthday, this selection made, with advice by the poet himself, is the ideal introduction to the work of a man considered by the New York Times "to be quite simply the funniest poet alive".

Martina Evans's new collection mines the rich seam running between rural Ireland and urban England, between personal and folk memory, and between fiction and reality. These are poems that simultaneously engage with the real world, while keeping a lin...

Beneath the respectable of Wales, with its patriarchal religion, Caradoc's stories exposed greed and corruption, domestic and sexual violence. "My Neighbours" (1920) focused on the London-Welsh business world with its equation of godliness with piety...