Bücher veröffentlicht von Cinnamon Press

Absorbing and utterly compelling debut novel exploring the complexity of commitment and relationships, set in Hong Kong.

This lyrical and arresting debut pamphlet explores the complex idea of national identity.

An exhilarating and powerful poetry pamphlet, that is as direct as it is accomplished.

New and selected poetry from a controversial but impossible to ignore poet.

Politically and environmentally aware collection of poems from a deeply committed voice.

Now well into her nineties, Ruth Bidgood continues to write, and to write at the peak of her powers. Lights melds reminiscence and observation against the backdrop of a long life and the beloved landscape of Ruth's home. It is an extraordinary body of work.

In midseventies London a group of friends play a dangerous game of open marriages, secrets and lies. "e;It's only sex, Ann. It won't hurt us,"e; claims Lois, beautiful, talented and determined to get whatever or whoever she wants without being held back by her longsuffering, academic husband, Hugh. In homes and offices, at parties, on holidays, wherever they are, sex is there for the taking. But bedhopping carries a price. Can love be free?

Dismissed as a lost realm in this Age of Despair, Citizens of Nowhere offers route maps to Utopia, where our ideals and our lives can coincide.

Two musicians, both facing crises, become drawn to the mysterious life of an opera singer who disappeared decades before. As they each search for what they believe to be different people, their paths merge and the truth hidden in the past reflects startlingly of the present. -- Cinnamon Press

Being Haunted is unusual in contemporary poetry for its formal energy and its imaginative daring. The poems have both a rhythmical drive and an inventiveness in their imagery and their (sometimes surreal) narratives that make them constantly surprising.

Second poetry collection by the American author, resident in the UK, exploring the imperfections and failures of memory found in private and public life and in the Arts themselves. -- Cinnamon Press

Through the figure of Punch, Burlesque explores themes of identity and the roles imposed on us through circumstance and conditioning before examining how creativity shapes our view of ourselves, the masks we wear often unconsciously, and how we strive to come to terms with the human condition through wry humour moments of compassion.

A fresh, visionary exploration of fatherhood and the natural world. -- Cinnamon Press

Drawing on subjects as varied as Roman legionaries and a worn-out shirt, modern air travel and the imagined life of a lugworm, A Sense of North searches for purpose and order in the human condition, a poetry of what it means to be alive. -- Cinnamon Press

The Love Life of Bus Shelters uses the sequence form to uncover a quasi-allegorical significance in urban spaces and institutions. It's quirkily witty and accessible but it bristles with defamiliarising and sometimes profound insights.

Two women search for love and utopia across a landscape traumatised by conflict.

Celebrating an increasingly interesting form that concentrates short prose pieces with the techniques of poetry brought to bear, this is the first anthology of its kind in the UK and features well known proponents of the prose poetry form such as George Szirtes and Pascale Petit, as well as emerging voices. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Daphne Gloag writes remarkable poems of cosmic scale. Yet, taking complex concepts such as time and cosmology as her references leads not to dense inaccessibility, but to conversational meditations on the human condition. In this exquisite sequence the carefulness of the research shines out, but even brighter is the enduring nature of love.

Frank Dullaghan's accessible poetry is increasingly assured and poised. Eschewing sentimentality and with language that is clear and elegant but revealing a depth of experience as they dig deep into memory, this poetry is insightful, poignant and ultimately life-affirming.

Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking, writer in Cardiff, author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Each section is a free-standing short story but read together they form an untrustworthy autobiography.

A debut novel by a social anthropologist and artist, set in Tajikistan and following the lives of two women facing difficult circumstances. Harriet Simenon, whose seemingly wealthy ex-pat life is unravelling, while her maid and nanny, Nargris, is struggling with poverty and her dependent family. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Exploring how emotional legacy can be passed on through generations, the poems in this tightly honed pamphlet range across themes of gender and mental health, time and loss. -- Cinnamon Press

This collection mingles the real and a surrealism to insinuate, with carefully modulated images and rhythms, a subtle disquiet that tests the boundaries of mental health and 'normal' apprehension. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Debut poetry collection

Prose pieces and poems

Words the Turtle Taught Me sees Susan Richardson writing at the height of her powers as a poet, an ecological campaigner and a writer about the process of composing inventive, compelling poems. Images by Pat Gregory. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru