{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"cheval-8","title":"Cheval 8","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'...gives a platform to young Welsh writers by publishing a selection of the best work from the Terry Hetherington Award. And what gives it a real lift is the extraordinarily fine quality of so much of the writing which it publishes.' Robert Nisbet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A fitting tribute to the memory of radical Welsh poet Terry Hetherington... gives young writers in Wales a wonderful opportunity for recognition.' Mike Jenkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCheval 8\u003c\/em\u003e presents a selection of the writing submitted by the talented young entrants to this year's Terry Hetherington Award, and includes new work by previous winners. Some of the writers are appearing in print for the first time; others have already begun to make their mark on the literary scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Terry Hetherington Award aims to encourage and promote young and emerging writers. Profits from the sale of the anthology hep to fund the following year's award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the editors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrinknp_400_400\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAI2AAAAJGU0ZTEwMjBhLTRkZmMtNDllMC1hNDNmLTY1M2ZlZDhiN2VhNA.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlan Perry is a poet, painter and short story writer living and working in Swansea. 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He won the Terry Hetherington Award in 2010 and received a Literature Wales New Writer's Bursary in 2011. His poems have won prizes in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, the Ledbury Festival International Poetry Competition and the Basil Bunting Award, and have appeared in magazines including \u003cem\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Wales\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Welsh Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe North\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthology","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":11848176903,"sku":"","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/7086\/products\/61J8bG53rfL.jpg?v=1450278524"},{"product_id":"the-elephants-foot","title":"The Elephants Foot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn origami crane in remembrance of Hiroshima. A father’s faded old photograph of his 1970s pre-marital sports car. Youths congregated at a bus stop. The sounds of an empty house after the children have flown the nest. Common phrases spoken by US tourists. Gangs fighting to the death. Radioactive clouds raining down over Europe. A collection of Princess Diana memorabilia. Teaching English in Siberia. These are just a handful of the themes touched upon in Michael Oliver-Semenov’s deeply personal and introspective first poetry collection. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSecond prize winner, Terry Hetherington Award for Young Writers 2012. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Self-deprecating and wise,’ these poems ‘are full, not only with laughter at the follies of everyday life, but with sadness too at its poignancy. 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Unnoticed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esurrounded by star birds and star crabs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecaught in the gravity of their own orbits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eiii\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe crabs ate her,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecrushing the bones that\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eonce hung bravery,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eeyes that held the earth’s curve,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe heart that burst adrenaline\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003edrilled it to the tips of grasping fingers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efeeling life, even in the face of the spiked sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElectra’s crunch and spasm groaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sea church settles and takes pity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eiv\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmelia fell upwards and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewas laid like a pearl on the shoreline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ev\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI imagine her whole and tanned,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eher clothing dirtied but intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer right hand loosely on her hip,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe other shielding squinting eyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom sun which levels her up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe looks out before looking in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  to the mountain tip of her new island,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe horizon as empty as the stomach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBirthdays pass, Christmases pass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe slow collapse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003einto new years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe’s stood there, blinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The Dylan Thomas Prize 2013\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems of desire, loss and revenge explore lives caught in the gravity of their own orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, distinctive and sensual, debut poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Shape of a Forest\u003c\/em\u003e has unblinking scope. This sophisticated debut collection moves from the historical to the contemporary: Genghis Kahn surveys his territory whilst Amelia Earhart disappears to myth. The Belvedere Apollo is dug up heralding the onset of The Renaissance as a tiger meets a foe in a Siberian Forest, the Pendle witches are hung in Lancashire, and in tsunami-struck Japanese gardens, South Sea islands and New York hotel rooms, lives are loosened like milk teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Shape of a Forest\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful survey of life and of human experience that spans centuries and the continents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJemma L King teaches literature and creative writing at Aberystwyth University where she also completed her doctoral thesis. Winner of the Terry Hetherington Award for young writers in 2011, she has published her creative and academic work internationally. 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