To order a copy, please contact the author directly at dvcwins@gmail.com In ‘Breathing’ David Van-Cauter maps out the topography of different losses and absences in finely calibrated poems that are as affecting as they are effective. Van-Cauter has a knack for observing the small details — motorway graffiti, band T-shirts, first-generation iPads — and a gift for adept phrase-making, all…
To order a copy of this book please contact the author directly at mike.mcnamara69@gmail.com An ongoing poetic odyssey of unknowing chronicling an outsider’s search for meaning through six decades of popular culture, music, addiction, love, loss and the mercurial confusion of recovery “...The poems here come from the pub, the street, the psychiatric ward and the military prison. They are…
To order a copy, please contact the author directly at dvcwins@gmail.com In the title poem of this accomplished and often deeply moving collection, David Van-Cauter asks ‘Were we here, or were we only passing through?’ The answer is, of course, both. These poems negotiate shifting landscapes of loss even as they celebrate the firm ground of married love, stretching the…
To order a copy of this book please contact the author directly at scockle2014@gmail.com Simon Cockle’s first collection of poems is a meditation on time, memory, place and the human condition, written with great warmth and skill. He blends the everyday with startling images, making use of both formal structures and impressionistic free verse in a manner which is at…
Poems from the edge of annihilation, leavened with black humour and pastiche, musings upon poetry and posterity even as death beckons. Paperback︱36 Pages︱ISBN 978-1-9998491-4-6
Gareth Writer-Davies fleshes out his twin subjects of love and sex in poems of affection, sardonic humour and a characteristic lightness of touch that makes his first collection both exceptionally readable and an intimate pleasure. Gareth Writer-Davies reads 'My Mother' Paperback︱60 Pages︱ISBN 978-1-9998491-1-5
"As we grow older we grow closer to nature, eventually returning to it, the poet suggests. Meanwhile there is the cruelty and foolishness of the world to contend with. With one foot in the classical world, John Gohorry anatomises the cruelties of our times and moves towards a painful yet elegiac form of rejoicing with wit and grace." George Szirtes…
In WYSG Gareth Writer-Davies is instantly recognisable, as he navigates the borderlands of Wales, seeking to bridge the new and the familiar; the streaming of our lives, our conflicts with nature, getting older and always, where we have been and where we are going? Melissa Todd, in The Journal #68 writes: “… 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅…
