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A painterly debut poetry collection imbued with deep feeling for the natural world.

Gail Ashton's Not the Sky - a memoir up-ends a West Midlands working-class childhood and chaotic family to re-imagine the present. -- Cinnamon Press

Locked inside himself, young Simeon Isherwood undergoes a radical and dangerous new gene therapy in the hope of freeing his senses and turning his mind towards the outer world. Meanwhile, an alien and god-like entity is moved to help a suffering mind it thinks of as its own offspring - with catastrophic results. -- Cinnamon Press

Two women search for love and utopia across a landscape traumatised by conflict.

A second edition of the raw, edgy and poignant debut poetry collection of British Ghanaian author Louisa Adjoa Parker who began writing poetry to explore her feelings of being 'different' and the racism she experienced in her early years. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Celebrating an increasingly interesting form that concentrates short prose pieces with the techniques of poetry brought to bear, this is the first anthology of its kind in the UK and features well known proponents of the prose poetry form such as George Szirtes and Pascale Petit, as well as emerging voices. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

In Untergang, David Batten moves offers a sequence that is internally reflective, almost claustrophobic. Starting indoors in the dark of a power cut in the depth of winter and finishing inside the writer's ribcage, this is not a world without hope, but it is one that urgently needs to wake, to face the dark and change it.

Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking, writer in Cardiff, author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Each section is a free-standing short story but read together they form an untrustworthy autobiography.

Poetry about politics and society

A debut novel by a social anthropologist and artist, set in Tajikistan and following the lives of two women facing difficult circumstances. Harriet Simenon, whose seemingly wealthy ex-pat life is unravelling, while her maid and nanny, Nargris, is struggling with poverty and her dependent family. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Girl in White is the extraordinary, moving story of Paula MendershohnBecker told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter Mathilde. Sue Hubbard has drawn on Becker's diaries and paintings to bring to life the artist's intense relationship with the poet Rilke and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife and mother.

This collection mingles the real and a surrealism to insinuate, with carefully modulated images and rhythms, a subtle disquiet that tests the boundaries of mental health and 'normal' apprehension. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Poetry pamphlet on the theme of Parkinson's Disease

Brimming with wit, moments of acute observation and imagination, and written in a wry, self-deprecating Billy Collins-esque style, Will Kemp's third collection is replete with refreshing images for the things that enrich life, from clouds to sport, art to music. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

There's a lovely spare clarity to the beautifully sculpted prose poems that make up Lines in the Sky - a sense of poignancy that is always well controlled as themes of love, loss, memory, family and friendship weave together. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Set in Serbia during the First World War, the lives of a brave soldier and a patriotic medical orderly interweave. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

What Rain Taught Us follows a mind fracturing into a subjective landscape of association, reflection and invention, where words, images and conflicting voices tumble and echo almost to the point of destruction. But, gradually, islands of stability form. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

These poems explore the boundary between science and poetry, and juxtapose the lexicon of organic chemistry, in particular, with a botanical discourse which is more conventional in poetry, but which the scientific treatment defamiliarises. Far from being abstruse and heavy, the treatment here lightens the subject with an imaginative playfulness. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Cyfrol o gerddi sy'n pefrio o ddelweddaeth gynnil ac iaith eglur yw The Hollow Bone. Ynddi, fe'n gwahoddir i fyfyrio ar ryfeddodau byd natur - y coedwigoedd, y mynyddoedd ac ehangder Antarctica. Enillydd y Cinnamon Press Debut Collection Poetry Award. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Taking the explorer, Vitus Bering, as its point of departure, this innovative and extraordinary novel explores dreams and waking, reality and loss. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Past and present, success and failure, magic and courage are swirled together in a story that brings a new voice to the myths, legends and traditions of folk and fairy tales. On their first night in Aunt Aggie's cottage on the Hebridean Isle of Tiree, Merryn and Hamish McQueen begin an exciting, but terrifying adventure to rescue Kester, a horse trapped in a fencepost by a witch.

Set on one day in 1979, The Fern Hedge explores the interconnected lives of three women - Alice, her daughter Kate, and grand-daughter Joanne. It is Alice's 80th birthday and she detests birthdays. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru