It was so lovely to end the year with the news that Wales Arts Review named Pearl and Bone , the second poetry collection from Mari Ellis Dunning as Best Welsh Poetry Book 2022 and to have another of our titles, the debut Strange Animals by Emily Vanderploeg on the shortlist . Clearly, I think all our 2022 poetry books, poets and editors are wonderful or I wouldn't have picked them, if you've had a backlog of great books to read, it did feel like 2022 was a bumper year for releases, then why not catch up with our 2022 list: The language of bees – Rae Howells Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry edited by Luca Paci (bilingual Italian/English hardback) Pearl and Bone – Mari Ellis Dunning Strange Animals – Emily Vanderploeg All available from Parthian Books and your favourite bookshops on and offline. You can also catch Mari offering her writing tip as part of Jo Bell's Writers Advent for Day 18 . I was also pleased to see another book I worked on at P...
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