Mynydd

by Rhys Trimble

“If you want to know where the cutting edge of poetry is, then read, and enjoy” — from the Afterword by Chris Torrance. 

“Of course the recurrent, slightly skewed, botanical descriptions of Welsh alpines attracted my attention (mynydd = mountain). But these descriptions, and the Welsh language elements, are only two of the tubes of pigment that squirtingly compose this airy, rather joyous, funny and romantic and open-ended forcefield.” – Intecapillary Space

On Sale: 03/11/2011

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Publication Date: 03/11/2011

ISBN: 978-0956947314

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Six of Clubs

by Childe Roland

Boiled String Poetry Chapbook Series #1.

Childe Roland’s journey across the white page in 47 micro-masterpieces. ISBN: 978-0-9562409-9-6. “the imprint of lips the eyes the tongue in powerful constellationary layerings finding the radiant white silences that is the sound of each four cornered page.” – Maggie O’Sullivan. // “six of clubs is beauty incandescent. White expanses mirror the very nature of existence, permeate page and poet, reflect lands; transcend worlds where littered wisdoms unfold to reveal the journey, and joy, of creation.” – Sophie McKeand

Six of Clubs is part of the Boiled String poetry series, edited by Professor John Goodby.

On Sale: 30/09/2011

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Publication Date: 30/09/2011

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Childe Roland was the pen name of experimental poet, Peter Meilleur. Peter was born in Surrey, however his family sailed to Canada before the end of the Second World War. In 1979, Peter and his wife settled in Llangollen, Wales, where he found poetic inspiration in the Welsh language. Peter passed away in 2019 at the age of 75.

Across the Sound

by Sylvie Hoffman

Sylvie Hoffmann’s collected work in Welsh-English, English and French, from teenager to senior citizen: It is Dangerous to Swim out into the Sound (say the coastguards at Rhossili) but this book is dedicated to those who wish to cross anyway.

On Sale: 05/12/2011

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Publication date: 05/12/2011

ISBN: 978-0-9569473-2-1

Category: Poetry

Local Therapy

by Soleïman Adel Guémar

Soleïman Adel Guémar is about the same age as the independent republic of Algeria. He worked as a freelance investigative journalist from 1991 until 2002, when he claimed political asylum in the UK following threats to his life. The last article he published as a resident of Algeria was titled ‘Dangerous Investigations’ (Liberté, 26.11.2002). The stories in ‘Local Therapy’ (translated by Tom Cheesman, ISBN 978-0-9545147-6-1, with cover photo by Christian Als) mostly first appeared in the Algerian press between 1992 and 2002. Adel’s stories, like his poetry, have “a fighter’s edge, a tough beauty” (Lisa Appignanesi). They address the agonies of contemporary Algeria and the survival, despite everything, of dreams of a different world.

On Sale: 11/02/2012

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Publication date: 23/01/2012

ISBN: 978-0-9545147-6-1

Category: Fiction

Soleïman Adel Guémar was born and raised in Algiers. Initially considering a career in the army, he quit his engineering studies to spend two years in Paris working in publishing. He returned to Algiers in 1991, to work as a journalist. By the end of 2002, Soleïman and his family had to leave Algeria to seek safety in the UK.

Trees

by Childe Roland

Do you “think that [you] shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” (like Joyce Kilmer) ? Think again. Concretely arboreal, joyfully branching poems. .

Trees is part of the Boiled String poetry series, edited by Professor John Goodby.

On Sale: 11/02/2012

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Publication date: 11/02/2012

ISBN: 978-0-9569473-3-

Category: Poetry

Childe Roland was the pen name of experimental poet, Peter Meilleur. Peter was born in Surrey, however his family sailed to Canada before the end of the Second World War. In 1979, Peter and his wife settled in Llangollen, Wales, where he found poetic inspiration in the Welsh language. Peter passed away in 2019 at the age of 75.

Bitch Dust

by Steven Hitchins

‘A strong excavation, tight, intense and close worked. A powerful twist against territory and time.’ – Iain Sinclair.

On Sale: 01/10/2011

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Publication Date: 04/05/2012

ISBN: 978 -0-9569473-4-5

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Steven Hitchins a poet from the South Wales Valleys. Brought up in Abercynon, where the River Cynon meets the Taff, he currently lives a few miles downriver in Pontypridd. Through publications such as Bitch Dust (Hafan 2012), The White City(Aquifer 2015) and Ilan (Stranger Press 2018), he has been conducting a mobile, non-linear mapping of the South Wales coalfield, using cut-up techniques and psychogeographical dérives to excavate industrial wounds and geological layerings along the invisible routes of the deleted canals.

Perilous Kinship

by Zafer Şenocak

Zafer Şenocak (Senocak) has been called the Woody Allen of German novelists. In Perilous Kinship, German and Turkish and Jewish memories of genocide and mutual suspicions are comically fused in a single lackadaisical character. Gefährliche Verwandtschaft has been translated into French, Spanish and Turkish. English by Tom Cheesman.

On Sale: 01/10/2011

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ISBN: 978-0-9562409-4-1

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Zafer Şenocak is a German writer well known for his poems, essays, and books. Zafer is prominent voice in the discussion of multiculturalism and cultural identity in Germany, the likes of which is addressed in Perilous Kinship. Born in Ankara, he has lived in Germany since 1970 and in Berlin since 1989.

Chroma

by Graham Hartill

“Hartill’s poetry is full of gods, saints, sages, inexplicable wonders … the ssiang of the shaman’s zithern, or the slap of the water-dragon’s tail … Certain of Hartill’s lines here could be cut on headstones in some overgrown country graveyard.” – Lyndon Davies.

Chroma is part of the Boiled String Poetry Chapbooks, edited by Professor John Goodby.

On Sale: 29/08/2012

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Publication Date: 29/08/2012

ISBN:  9780956947369 

Category: Poetry

Graham Hartill

Graham Hartill is a poet and writer. Originally from the West Midlands, Graham moved to Wales to work as a performer and installation artist before going onto study in the U.S. He returned to Wales, becoming a prominent figure in the Cardiff poetry scene. Currently, Graham is both writer-in-residence at HMP Parc, Bridgend, and in 2013, he became the first Writer-in-Residence at Swansea College of Medicine.

Thymine

by William Shakespeare, tr. by Ulrike Draesner, Tom Cheesman, Olive Ond

Shakespeare’s Sonnets are about sex, pro/creation, writing-as-immortality. Punning is a principle: words, springing off-springs, and spellings spell the dead alive again.

News of Dolly the cloned sheep broke in 1996. Ulrike Draesner (celebrated feminist German author, performer, artist) re-translated a selection of the Sonnets into a near-future post-reproductory scenario. The man or woman, the woman, the other man, are they ‘natefacts’ or ‘artefacts’? Am “I” self, or my own other, or author? Metre distorted. Rhymes cracked. “Will-ful misunderstanding,” she called it.

Tom Cheesman translated 17 of Draesner’s poems back into English the same way. Thy, mine, thine? Thymine: the difference between RNA and DNA.

Isn’t DNA and backwards? What makes us us, is a copula. Till copulation’s past.

(Olove Ond? Less said the better. Anagram of Do No Evil. Sonnets GoogleTranserialated.)

On Sale: 20/02/2013

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Format: 210×210, 46 pages

Also published by the Taylor Institute, Oxford, 2016.

Are You Happy With That?

by People Seeking Sanctuary

Writers from 30 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, writing in Wales now. Some have leave to remain. Some are waiting for the Home Office decision. Some have been condemned to destitution: surviving with no support, in terror of being detained or deported. Men, women, children, all with extraordinary stories and powerful talents. Are you happy with the world conflicts which displace millions of people each year? Happy with Britain’s role in these conflicts? Happy with the way we treat the few refugees who reach our shores? Be moved. Be surprised. Be provoked. Get involved.

If you’d like to read the PDF of Are You Happy With That?, please consider donating to Swansea Asylum Seekers Support

On Sale: 08/10/2013

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Publication Date: 08/10/2013

ISBN: 978-0956947376

Category: Biographies & Memoirs