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Brand new clubs that offered teenage boys the opportunity to meet celebrities, win prizes and enjoy many activities!
Reading Communities
The towns of Barry and Llanelli organised a whole host of book-based events over the summer and autumn!
Click here for more details of the 2008 Reading Communities.
Give a Book Week
Celebrities and members of the public throughout Wales gave each other books as gifts during this special week in July!
Click here to take a peek at the week's activities
Monthly Themes
July – Rhythm and rhyme
English Adult
Zoo Father, The
A collection of 47 poems by Pascale Petit reflecting the painful relationship of the poet and her dying father, together with the ‘Vineyard’ series inspired by the poet's mother.
Growth Rings
A book of poems by Christine Evans, a native of Yorkshire who has made her home in the Llŷn peninsula. This is her fifth collection, and in it we have over forty vers libre poems. Book of the Year Short List 2007.
Kink and Particle
A book of poems containing Tiffany Atkinson's debut collection, offering multiple perspectives, including those of a woman on the brink of 30. The style is casual vernacular, yet well-formulated and well-observed.
Fossil-Box, The
A collection of poems. Preserved traces of things - forms, language, memory - are what inform many of the poems in The Fossil-Box. The volume is fascinated by the urgency of ground and belonging. Several pieces focus on the land and seascapes around the author's home in Wales.
& the concept of zero
A volume of poems drawing on various themes and subjects. The collection shows a distinctive voice, a rapid succession of ideas, images and action, keen observation and a compelling idiosyncratic use of language.
Trouble in Heaven
A collection of poems from the former editor of Planet.
Singing in Chains: Listening to Welsh Verse
An exploration of the mysteries of the Welsh bardic craft of cynghanedd, prepared for those who are not Welsh speaking, together with a CD presenting readings of the quotations discussed in the volume.
Footprints
A collection of 13 diverse short stories reflecting the magical and poignant influence of special places and events on the lives of the main characters.
Going Gentle
A thoughtful and thought-provoking collection of personal and accessible poems by a poet from Anglesey.
Skirrid Hill
A volume of sensuous poetry on the themes of separation and division, including inspired poems on geographical divides, borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement from childhood to adulthood, the ending of relationships, and divorce. The drama and friction of the poems are created with the juxtaposition of two diverse and separate states.
Letter to Patience
A long poem set in Patience's Parlour, a bar in Northern Nigeria, in 1993, a time of political unrest. It offers an insight to life's difficulties, and a man's search for meaning in difficult times.
