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In her second collection, We Could Be Anywhere By Now, Katherine Stansfield brings us poems about placement and displacement full of both wry comedy and uneasy tension. Stints in Wales, Italy and Canada, plus return trips to her native Cornwall all spark poems delighting in the off-key, the overheard, the comedy and pathos of everyday life.

Universally captivating, Sir John Soane's museum in London is a labyrinth of evocation and imagination. Robert Seatter conjures it up in a personal and poetic trail, capturing the tragic story of the man who created it and the eclectic collection he gathered within its walls. With collaged elements from images of the museum artifacts.

Rhian Edwards won Wales Book of the Year for her debut poetry collection, Clueless Dogs. The Estate AgentâEUR(TM)s Daughter is her eagerly awaited second book. Acute and wryly observed, the poems step forth with a confident tone, touching on the personal and the public, encapsulating a womanâEUR(TM)s tribulations in the 21st century.

Operation Violet Oak was the police name for its investigation into a child abuse ring in Cardiff. Except the ring never existed. Glascoe's account of false accusation raises important questions about the criminal justice system and police investigations. It is also a moving account of the pressure the accused men lived under for three years.

Famously the 'town of books' and home to the Hay Literature Festival, Hay-on-Wye is a unique rural town. Noakes uncovers the many quirks of this quirky place and explores its rural hinterland: the Black Mountains to the south, Herefordshire to the east, Brecon to the west and Kilvert's Clyro to the north. A book full of unexpected discoveries.

Author Sue Gee explores the wellspring of creativity and practice of twelve prominent but various writers, including Penelope Lively and Anna Burns.

Andre Mangeot's debut poetry collection for Seren, Blood Rain, is partly inspired by his love of the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia. Beautifully crafted, these poems address the natural world, its endangerment and other pressing global issues from multiple perspectives, and with great lyrical power.

Full of immense richness and subtle wit, this engaging novel examines the power of ancestral and cultural heritage and the impact such history has upon the present. As an intense young filmmaker, Bethan Mair Nichols seems to have total happiness until an unexpected legacy bearing the weight of family and communal expectations forces her to question her ambition, motives, and her very role in the world. Compassionate and moving, this novel is based on an ancient folktale from medieval Wales.

Sheenagh Pugh's poems continue to entertain and delight her many admirers. In Stonelight, her ninth collection, the keynote is celebration. The opening section includes a moving series called 'Arctic Chart' which commemorates the various people (and one ship) who gave their names to features on the Arctic map. Also here is 'Envying Owen Beattie' (winner of the Forward Prize for Best Poem of 1998), where the discovery of a frozen explorer under permafrost inspires some unusual thoughts. The middle section, including 'The Faithful Wife', makes up a sequence of persona poems in the character of a middle-aged woman in love with a young man. Other poems deal with what Sheenagh Pugh calls "the usual suspects: Shetland, Cardiff, mortality, slightly weird and misplaced people." There are also more of the poet's fine translations from the French and German. "Sheenagh Pugh's work's accessibility is a feature of the clarity and inevitability with which she can pursue intuitions into territories of luminous significance."Poetry Review "Savour the richness of this collection: here is a poet who plays with words seriously and light-heartedly to build fine bridges between the external world and the inner world of imagination." Poetry Monthly Sheenagh Pugh is known to thousands of poetry readers for 'Sometimes', her much anthologised 'poem on the underground' and for her Selected Poems, a set text in schools. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Babel Prize for translation and the ACW Book of the Year in 2000.

In Genesis John Powell Ward develops the distinctive style that made 1993's A Certain Marvellous Thing the recipient of rapturous reviews. A highly wrought and polished technique that places emphasis on the letters of the alphabet in the construction of stanza patterns and rhymes contrasts with emotive and topical themes. Poems like 'Once' and 'Nature' not only record the beauties of landscape, but question our fraught relations with the environment. Time, its potential and its depredations are continuing themes. There are several moving elegies to various friends and loved ones and even for a heroic stranger in the news: 'Elegy for the Plank Man'. Though the subject matter is sometimes dark, this poet's abundant energy, optimism and compassion shines through. Readers will be delighted by an innovative and thought-provoking new collection of poetry. John Powell Ward was born in Suffolk and educated at the Universities of Toronto, Cambridge and Wales. Editor of Poetry Wales from 1975 to 1980, he is the author of critical works on Wordsworth and R.S. Thomas among others, and editor of the Border Lines series. He has also published several volumes of poetry.

In the dream I'm travelling very fast and without effort high over the ground as if I'm a bird flying. There's the trackless mass of trees and strips of mountain ridges and the thread of river like sour milk. The sky is dark blue and red like bruises. I swoop down and then up to miss smashing into the crowns of the trees and I see the bruised air and the black horizon. I come to a figure standing on the heather. He stands with his arms flung out, the fingers spread, like branches. I come close to his face, to his untidy red moustache and his head split by an appalling wound. On two nights separated by a gap of a dozen years, Griffri ap Berddig, a poet at the court of a minor Welsh prince of the twelfth century, tells his life story to a Cistercian monk. Part boast and part confession, his words turn into a compelling narrative which develops through an accumulation of obsessive images towards self-revelation. A complex mixture of historical detail and invention, Griffri is a serious and entertaining novel examining the limits of our knowledge of the world and ourselves. Christopher Meredith is a poet, novelist and currently lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. Born in Tredegar and educated at Abersytwyth and Swansea, he worked for some time in a south Wales steel plant, and as a teacher. His novels are Shifts, Griffri and Sidereal Time, and he is the author of a collection of poetry, Snaring Heaven. His books are taught in universities in Wales and England.