This page highlights some of the poets who’ve had books published with us. More to be added soon…
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Lillie Naor
Her debut poetry collection is an alchemy of word and soul. Drawing from decades of work at the intersection of Psychotherapy, art, and spiritual growth, her poems distil life’s complexities into lines of clarity and tenderness. With grace and courage, Naor transforms inner landscapes into luminous verse, where pain refines into wisdom and shadows reveal their hidden gold. Each poem is a vessel for transformation, guiding the reader through the raw matter of human experience—the uncertainty, the longing, the breaking open—toward self-recognition and quiet radiance. This collection captures the alchemy of awareness: the way we are shaped, undone, and re-formed by what we dare to face. These poems are meditations on becoming—luminous, tender, and fiercely alive.
Helen May Williams
Helen May Williams is the author of June: a biographical novel (Cinnamon Press 2020), Catstrawe (Cinnamon Press 2019) and The Princess of Vix (Three Drops Press 2017). Her parallel text translation of Michel Onfray’s Before Silence is published by The High Window Press (2020). During lockdown she participated in a befriending-by-phone project, which resulted in a publication with co-authors Dominic Williams and Mel Perry: Hold the Line (People Speak Up 2021). Also during lockdown she planted 700 saplings in the field beside her house, renaming it Coed Cae Claer — an allusion to R. S Thomas’s sonnet ‘The Bright Field’. The story of this is told in Coed Cae Claer (Cinnamon Press 2023).
In 2024 she edited and published ‘Collected Poems 1970-1992’ by Helen May Dennis (her younger self).
Steve Woods
Steve was born and brought up in south Wales. He married Sue and moved to Australia in 1981. Returning to Wales in 1993, he took up sailing, after completing a BA Hons with the Open University. He spends much of his leisure time in the tropics, which he loves.
Steve is a prolific writer and has produced four poetry collections and a autobiographical memoir.
Rob Cullen
This is a collection of poetry written over forty years. They begin in the 1970s when Rob worked at Eastmoors Steelworks, Cardiff. Other poems were written when he worked in a psychiatric hospital in Sussex. The title poem, Uncertain Times, was written in 1985 during the miner’s strike and reflects the impact of a destructive political process on the community in which Rob was born and grew up – a destructive process that still has effect to this day. Some poems expose the experience of working with seriously emotionally damaged and abused children. More recent poems reveal the healing journey that Rob took to regain his equilibrium after a long professional life working with troubled, and troubling, people.
Steve Woods
In this collection, he shines a light on what, for him, are the three key aspects of life: ‘A Moment In Time’ expresses some of those fleeting elements in life which can leave a lasting impression. ‘People And A Sense Of Place’ reflects the struggle between adventure and security, together with consequences and responsibilities relating to choice. Ideas about the fundamental assumptions which sometimes keep us ticking over are also explored. Finally, in ‘All Is Change’, Steve pulls these intertwined and interdependent elements together through the prism of change. For the author, this is the dominant aspect of all our lives, whether it be for good or ill.
Joanne C Hicks
Joanne is a poet from beautiful Tenby in Pembrokeshire, west Wales.
A collection of poems and prose, which cover a wide range of subjects. Poems that are reflective of everyday life, some thought provoking and some humorous. Some inspired by the Pembrokeshire countryside and beaches, others by historical events such as Covid-19, VE Day and the passing of the Queen.
Poems that will feed your soul – simply put – life wrapped up in verse.
Chris Armstrong
Lost Time brings together a collection of poems written during the last two to three years.
There are poems that relate to Place (mostly Wales), the Sea (if not the sea, then the horizon! The sea is always there), Writing, Memories and Time… and a few poems brought about by Covid and lockdown found their way in at the beginning.
There are no breaks between the themes, and they do not have section headings, as it would be fair to say that their edges are blurred, each one blending softly into the next.
Lindsay Pettifor
Lindsay was born and raised in Herefordshire and now lives in Worcestershire with her husband and daughter.
A collection of poems exploring place within the natural world through the cycle of seasons, and through redemption and the legacy of love.
Lindsay’s poetry has been highly commended by the Yeovil Poetry Prize and received a special mention in the 2021 International Welsh Poetry Competition.
David Urwin
Dave Urwin confesses to having been very work-driven for most of his life and has earned his living by a wide range of employment. In this collection, his work poems explore the topic from various perspectives, and many of the poems view labour by inhabiting other characters, as well as the view from his own, mainly rural, occupations.
Death is something many of us do not like to face up to or discuss, but Dave believes our lives can be enhanced by accepting our impermanence and facing our own mortality without being morbid. He approaches the subject from different angles, and in some poems with a note of humour and positivity. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2021, he has been able to re-appraise death and life, with renewed clarity. This collection of poems will give you much to reflect upon in respect of both your own life and that of others.
Steve Woods
Steve was born and brought up in Pontypool, south Wales. He married Sue and moved to Australia in 1981.
In his second poetry collection, he considers ideas on relationships, the self and adventure; as well as issues such as environment and reproduction.
Once again, he uses humour to capture the essence of these concepts. Observations on the human condition and, of course, travel, are offered ‘In Deep‘.
Chris Armstrong
Chris Armstrong has had three careers: working as a merchant seaman and navigator, a farmhand on the farm where he still lives in the mountains of mid-Wales, and as an information scientist before retiring to become a poet and writer. He has one longer collection of poems in print, Mostly Welsh (Y Lolfa, 2019) and a recent chapbook, Book of the Spirit (Curated Lines, 2022). Although initially entirely focused on poetry, he moved on to short stories—When I Am Not Writing Poetry (Curated Lines, 2023)—while his first full-length work of fiction, The Dark Trilogy (Austin Macauley, 2022) was being published. He is now working on a further novel. He has been published, for example, in Storgy, Agenda and London Grip New Poetry. He writes about his writing and publishes the occasional poem on the Curated Lines blog at https://curatedlines.online/.
Moira Andrew
Moira Andrew was born and educated in Scotland. She has worked in most areas of primary education, as teacher, head teacher and college lecturer. She taught creative writing part-time in the University of Glamorgan. Moira has written a number of books on the creative arts for Belair, the most popular being Language in Colour and Paint a Poem. She has many poetry collections to her name, among them, Geese and Daughters, (IDP 2018), Imagine a Kiss, (Dempsey & Windle 2020), Looking through Water, (Poetry Space 2020) and Moonfall (2021).
Anita Namyslo
A first collection of poems by English writer Anita Namyslo. Anita spent her childhood in Warwickshire before attending the University of Warwick. She studied teacher training at the University of Durham and then taught at the Inlingua School of Languages in the Black Forest, south-west Germany. Since 2003 she has been a freelance trainer for Business English. She has loved writing poems since she was six years old.
Angela Edwards Rigby
Cardiff-based poet Angela Rigby has produced two collections of subtle, yet sharply observed poetry. These poems are light in touch, with original turns of phrase and unique points of view. Many have been published in magazines and online and are collected here for the first time along with new poems. This is her second collection, her first, ‘A Rose In Snow’ was published in 2020.
Moira Andrew / Angie Butler
Moira Andrew is a former headteacher who has lectured creative writing at the University of Glamorgan, written a number of books (many for children), including eight, highly-praised poetry collections.
Angie Butler has performed her work on a variety of platforms including the UK and Kenya. She also holds the Guinness Book of World Records for gathering the most pirates together. This is her first poetry book, a collaboration with accomplished poet and friend, Moira.
Elizabeth Donnelly
A lovely, short collection of heartfelt poetry by Irish writer Elizabeth Donnelly.
Illustrated with beautiful watercolour paintings by Lynsey Donnelly.
Steve Woods
Steve was born and brought up in Pontypool, south Wales. He married Sue and moved to Australia in 1981. Returning to Wales in 1993, he took up sailing after completing a BA Hons with the Open University. He spends much of his leisure time in the tropics, which he loves. He has published four poetry collections and an autobiographical account of his work, life and adventures. Steve’s poems reflect past and present, as well as personal and wider observations. He is a traveller by nature, and this is reflected in his writing.
He takes us on a journey from dark places, through pathos and humour, to a kind of tropical contentment. Both accessible and eclectic, his work is captured wherever his thoughts happen to be ‘In The Moment’.
William Furley
William Furley benefited from the freedoms of the European Union when he moved from London to S. Germany at the age of twenty-three and eventually became Associate Professor of Greek at Heidelberg University until his retirement to London in 2019. He has collected here poems published over the decades in literary magazines and read at readings, and many not previously published.
Praise for his work:
“I’ve always loved the poetry of Bill Furley, ever since first reading Jermini, which for me is the quintessential poem on refugees and the world’s economic disparities. Every poem is clearly about something, which is rare; every poem is well crafted (even rarer); and every poem has a satisfying conclusion—a keen observation, a sweet twist of irony, or just that final touch that means so much, like a ribbon on a gift. Read ‘Small Successes’ and you’re sure to understand why I consider his ‘Selected Poems’ to be a great success indeed.” – Gary Kissick (UK), winner of The Pacific Poetry Prize
“Bill Furley can build a true line out of anything. His works often gather up the detritus of the modern age – plastics and towels and spark plugs, flavours of ice cream and a hubcap – and weave them into an elegiac fabric of language. He elevates the mundane into poems that are sincere and story-like, casting long shadows that will haunt you for a long time.” – Russ Hodge, Author and Musician (Berlin)
Lesley Williams
Lesley Williams lives in Swansea. After a long career in Social Services, early retirement gave her the opportunity to attend a variety of writing courses run by the University. She has performed her work locally as a member of the ‘Garage Players’ and continues to meet monthly with a small group of Swansea poets.
Her work experience was mainly in training and development in mental health, domestic abuse and substance misuse. In 2005, she received a police commendation for services to community safety. Although Lesley is a social worker by trade, she started her career in nursing. She is a qualified counsellor and has diplomas in domestic violence and dream analysis. Lesley draws upon all of these subjects to inform her writing. She has often been in hot water.
Recently, she has had poems published by ‘Black Bough’ and the ‘Willawaw Poetry Journal’. This book is loosely divided into a section of general poetry and prose, and topics including abuse, historical figures, Swansea, illness/disability, family, found poems, love, women, loss and death, Christmas and a few poems written for children.
Dave Urwin
Dave has been published in online magazines such as ‘I am not a silent poet’ and ‘Blithe Spirit’, the journal of the ‘British Haiku Society’. More importantly, he has a loyal and respectful following in south-west Wales where he regularly reads his work live, including his ‘performance poetry’. He believes that anyone who likes poetry will find something within these pages to make him/her think, smile, cry or even laugh.
‘Plain Song from the Backstreets of Silence’ is David Urwin’s second collection of poetry, following ‘Towards Humanity’, (Pinewood Press, 2015). He recommends reading the poems out loud, and disturbing the silence… for just a little while.
Hubert Tsarko
Hubert Tsarko is the pen name of John Short. Born in Liverpool, he grew up on the edges of Lancashire and went from school to study Comparative Religion at Leeds University. Later, he spent some years in the south of Europe working in fields and factories and as an English teacher in Spain before settling for a long period in Athens. At the end of 2007, he emerged from an obscure neighbourhood of Piraeus to get a laptop and submit work to magazines. These days, he divides his time between Liverpool and Barcelona.
“The titles of these poems give us some idea of what to expect, but not everything: places (such as Riscle) remembered from the wanderings of an artist living the vie routiere are given a surreal treatment; curious incidents (The Cat Sat on my Glasses) afford us unexpected entry into a private world; dreamlike employment of stock phrases and skilful evocations of atmosphere take us by surprise.” – Dave Lee
J. Loh Rettig
Born and raised in Malaysia, after graduating from High School, impelled by inquisitiveness and adventures spirit, J. Loh soon left for Europe where she furthered her education and learned a professional occupation in Germany.
After writing her first poem at the age of seventeen J. Loh decided to produce her first book of verse in 2015 and has followed this up with a novella in 2018.
Louise G Cole
Originally from Worcestershire, England, Louise now lives in County Roscommon in the west of Ireland. Louise writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry. She has been published and won or been shortlisted in various literary competitions. She was nominated for a Hennessy Award in 2015 and 2018. She has won the Strokestown Poetry Festival Roscommon Poets’ Prize, the Hanna Greally Literary Award, the HE Bates Short Story Competition, and the I Am Dublin Flash Fiction competition, amongst others.
Versions of some of these poems have been published, or have won, been longlisted or shortlisted, in various competitions: Strokestown International Poetry Festival’s Roscommon Poets’ Prize; Hennessy New Irish Writing in the Irish Times; Crannog Magazine; Skylight 47; Poetry Ireland Review; the Roscommon Herald; ‘Refugees and Peacekeepers’ anthology Patrician Press; Boyle Arts Festival; Dermot Healy Poetry Competition; Oliver Goldsmith Festival Competition; Roscommon New Writing Competition.
Some of the poems have been read to audiences at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon; Listowel Writers’ Week; the Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo; Ballina Arts Centre, Mayo; The Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin; also at several events for Poetry Day Ireland and at various outings with the Hermit Collective.
I received timely support from the Creative Frame Professional Network, based in County Leitrim, which selected me to be mentored by the poet Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmons, who provided some valuable professional expertise during the initial assembly of this collection.
Skye Langdon
Skye Langdon is the pen name for Gilda Clark. Gilda is a British (Romanian-born) author, currently living in Chester, UK. A keen, dynamic mathematics lecturer, growing a tree of her life, with multiple branches of passions (fine arts, music and writing), intuitive, independent and sensitive to the outside world, with a vivid imagination and adaptability in the face of new challenges. She has a little family with two children.
She uses logic, Abstractionism, embedded in creativity, drawn from mathematics, and her everyday life, to put the words in the right place and create a concoction of new meanings.
Amelie Ash
Ballet dancer and author Amelie Ash is from Leicestershire. Her debut anthology ‘Epiphany’ documents her battle with anorexia. Amelie has also had work published in ‘Poetry Rivals 2012’ and ‘Women Writers of the Year 2015’.
“This poetry is quite simply breathtaking. Amelie Ash speaks to us with unflinching honesty about horrifying experiences, and yet through this she brings us to a greater appreciation of the beauty of overcoming. Even when confronting the darkest despair, the poetry is driven by the restless energy of an unconquerable spirit. Ash has an exceptional ear for rhythm and phonology, giving the poems an extraordinary lyrical beauty. Songs of pain, songs of hope, songs of resilience, these poems are an extraordinary witness to one young woman’s extraordinary courage.” – Sarah Parkin
James Walton
Australian writer James Walton is a masterful artisan with language. His first poetry collection is simply wonderful.
James Walton’s poems have appeared in many prestigious publications: Eureka Street, The Wonder book of Poetry, Australian Poetry Collaboration, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Great Ocean Quarterly, Australian Poetry, Hubgarden Poetry, Australian Love Poems 1st & 2nd Editions, Poetry d’Amour Anthology 2014, Silver Birch Press – Bukowski On Wry, Australian Poetry Journal, A Sudden Presence – Anthology of Short Listed Poems, Australian Catholic University National Literature Prize 2013 and the Welsh Poetry Competition 2014.
‘Walton is a masterful artisan with language in poems that, at the same time, completely steer clear of artifice. Careering explorations carry a great sense of unruffled stillness – this book is a well-travelled hardwood chest filled with glittering curios, feathers, loss and tranquillity. The future of this art form lies in experiential reading of fully fleshed works like these.’ – Les Wicks
J. Loh Rettig
A short collection of poems by Malaysian-born author J. Loh Rettig, drawing on her travel and life experiences.
Born and raised in Malaysia, after graduating from High School, impelled by my inquisitiveness and adventurous spirit, I soon left for Europe, where I furthered my education and learned a professional occupation in Germany. Later on, I also spent some time in the UK for further studies and was awarded a Diploma in TESOL in London. Poems and verses had always fascinated me. Inspired by them, I soon wrote my first poem at the age of seventeen. Now, being an adult and a mature woman, I do observe and experience things more consciously and in a different way. This gave me the inspiration to put them into words, to compose poems and to make my first collection out of them. There might even be readers whose similar experiences are being touched upon in these poems. Take a look and submerge into the world of verses.
Dave Lewis
#1 Amazon Best Seller and award-winning Welsh writer, poet and photographer based in Pontypridd. He has written over 20 books on various subjects; poetry, crime thrillers, self-help, photography & cycling. He runs the world famous Welsh Poetry Competition and the Poetry Book Awards.
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