Air HistoriesChristopher Merediths latest collection is filled with gorgeous, original depictions of the landscape of Wales, especially the Black Mountains near the authors home. Beginning in the Stone Age and ending in the future, well known forms appear alongside vigorous experiments, all touching on the various histories, and human fallibilities, that shape our present lives. The defining feature of Christopher Merediths poetry is an exquisite, almost painful

cinematic and experimental devices

A gripping novel about one of the last great taboos: a teacher-pupil relationship

a Portuguese slaver and a Yoruba slave

Erik Spinoy

my warm fur boots with their bit of warmth make your bones grow make your flesh grow

and City of Bridges (2005

Yvonne Green

reassuring and buoyant

His writing appears in the anthologies The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007) and Gathering Ground (2006)

the late Len Green

First published in 1964

Adam Strickson is a poet