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Summer to Summer, Looking
Gill McEvoy is a poet who moves through the world with all her senses open. The quality of attention here is profound and pays off in an elegance of phrase and originality of image that makes these poems sing off the page. There is often a playfulness at work in the linguistic dexterity of these pieces, as the poet engages in a car chase with the moon or the flora, fauna and meteorology of October are presented as a weather forecast. There is a connection to land here that is lived and authentic, it is never sentimental, but it brims with hope and generosity even in those moments when we know ‘the longed-for vision’ might never appear.
Mine
‘There is no such thing/as refuge or retreat’ ends one of the poems after layering vivid image on image, leaving us changed for the experience of reading. And it happens again and again—embodied, specific, clear images that deliver meaning that is integral to the experience yet surprising and new. And along the way the emotions build, not from being told or hammered home, but because we are allowed to sense them so deeply that we are able, also, to feel them: the loneliness and the tenderness, the sadness that is reflected back in the green eye of a piece of polished malachite, the loss that lurks in the corner of an office, the romance and the longing. This is a collection to savour, full of words that haunt, it pulls us back to find another layer of meaning, and another…
Questor
A gripping story of danger, intrigue, jealousy and love set in the uncertain world of Oliver Cromwell’s post-civil war Republic.When army surgeon, John Lockyer attends the pregnant victim of a street stabbing, saving the child but not the mother, Lady Derryn Barlow, ward of the Earl of Pembroke, his life unravels. Hours later, a hospital laundry maid, Sally, is killed and, pressured to keep quiet by the Earl’s henchman, Lockyer and his colleague, Madame O’Brien, search for Sally’s sister, Finny, at the Whitecross Street brothel. But she has already fled.What is the link between the dead women? Who has taken the child? What are the brothel’s secrets? And will the murderer be found?Infiltrating the exiled Royalists in France, will Lockyer uncover the answers? Will he find favour with Cromwell? And will he meet Madame O’Brien again?In this compelling debut, Tallis Clark deploys her medical expertise and meticulous historical research to deliver a pitch-perfect story of murder, forensic investigation, political high stakes and the search for truth.
Arriving Barefooted
In this bilingual collection, Arriving Barefooted—Two Rough Journeys/Glanio’n Droednoeth—Dwy Daith Arw, Gwen Williams traces the journey of the Welsh settlers in Patagonia and a journey in their footsteps. The first settlers arrived at Bahia Nueva in an old tea schooner, The Mimosa, in 1865. They had few farming or engineering skills and met with immediate hardship, sleeping in caves, shooting birds for food — metaphorically barefooted. But they were escaping oppression in their homeland, much like many modern-day migrants, and the determination to preserve their language and culture drove them on. In 2015, the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Y Wladfa, the poet travelled to Patagonia, welcomed by the descendants of the settlers. She carried a sketchbook and journal, discovering that her modern group of Welsh travellers were much less stoical than those first settlers, despite, or perhaps, because of modern advantages. The bilingual poems — they had to be in Welsh as well as English and would have been in Spanish too if Williams could have managed it — convey the essence of Chubut, its characters and rugged nature. Ranging from a Celtic festival on the banks of Afon Fawr to the noisy visitors showing off, Gogs and Hwntws (North and South Walians) competing to impress with their singing, these poems, by turns moving and filled with wit and warmth, immerse us in a unique place and culture. And along the way we might even meet the shy Patagonian Killer Bunny.
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Devil's Piece
In Devil’s Piece loss, absence, mental illness and pain are examined with a lens so clear and lucid, the heart aches. Yet in that clarity, there is a savouring of the smallest things and a permeability to love and life that creates songs of what might have been dirges. There is no dressing up of reality, no pretence that everything is well, but in these fearless, precise poems there is transformation. An exquisite collection.
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Strength in Petticoats
What lengths will we go to for love? And in what forms could this love show up in?Strong-willed Lillibet, a Bolivian cholita wrestler, is enthralled by Emilio and Emiliano—twins in appearance only. They share success and acclaim in the wrestling world but their complex relationship sets them on a path towards tragedy.Against a backdrop of harsh economics, prejudice and societal changes across generations, Strength in Petticoats is a vibrant story in a carnivalesque world. A high-stakes tale of a search for love in which human flaws have dire consequences, as colourful as it is compassionate, Strength in Petticoats asks big questions in this inventive and compelling debut novel.
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