Vital Stream by Lucy Newlyn Emily Hasler He is a poet of

He is a poet of the truest measure… From his earliest work Ormsby has favoured a natural shapeliness… A plain-speaking

' – Ruth Padel

Menna Elfyn's latest collection in Welsh and English is full of murmurings

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Summer 2017

in the expectation of any number of lyrical pleasures

Vital Stream by Lucy Newlyn Emily Hasler He is a poet ofVital Stream takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in 1802 a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings had eventually set up home together in the Lake District, where they were to remain for the rest of their lives. After two years in Grasmere, William became engaged to Mary Hutchinson. There followed an intense period of re adjustment for all three, and