Best known as a novelist, this poet uses fiction-writing techniques to create memorable settings and characters, and a narrative voice that ranges from contemplation to irony. Darker forces of alienation also intrude in the form of preoccupations about belonging and dislocation, belief and doubt, rigidity and movement, and time-honored questions about how the real world is changed by the attempt to capture it in art.
Christopher Meredith Books



A novel where Griffri ap Berddig, a poet at the court of a minor Welsh prince in the twelfth century, tells his life story to a Cistercian monk.
Shifts
- 260 pages
- 10 hours of reading
An edition of a classic post-industrial novel, published with a new afterword by Richard Poole. The novel charts the lives of four closely bound characters, against the background of a declining steelworks. Originally published in 1988.