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  “Everybody sees the world a little differently,” Natalie Ann Holborow said, while introducing us all to her beautiful new collection of poetry Little Universe, journaling the ways she has observed the world around her. From people-watching in a hospital ward, to rediscovering an appreciation for nature during her lockdown walks through Gower, Natalie’s collection is a lovely appreciation for people and places alike. Natalie is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize, and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine and...

This week we're talking all things poetry in the lead up to #NationalPoetryDay this Thursday on the 6th of October. We are delighted that Pearl & Bone by the wonderful Mari Ellis Dunning has been met with some great reviews since its launch last Saturday. 'This is a brave, complex, powerful, angry, and loving book, full of poems that argue, discuss, share, and reject the abuse of power that women and children are constant victims of' - Tears in the Fence Dunning's second full poetry collection explores themes of motherhood and femininity using her own intimate moments of becoming a mother during a global pandemic...

Emily Vanderploeg and Rae Howells launch their debut poetry collections at a launch night hosted at the Elysium Gallery.

With a foreword from Michael Sheen, the debate is complimented by the stylistic framework of these essays which are current, informed and inherently political. In understanding the devolution process in Wales as it sets an argument for a new established path for not only the differences that we are hyperaware of as a nation due to the submersion of the global population within the realms of the pandemic, the paradigm has shifted in the consciousness of Welsh people. You can access the book here: https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/the-welsh-way-essays-on-neoliberalism-and-devolution

We love to see our authors and our books travelling the globe, here are some photos from Eric Ngalle's Cameroon book launch, as he says 'they do things a bit differently here!' He'll be writing us a blog or two about his trip soon... for now, feast on these, I bet I'm not the only one who wants to steal his threads: