Graham Hartill has been active on the Welsh poetry scene for more than thirty years as a writer, performer and teacher. He has worked in settings as varied as universities, hospitals and prisons. He has published five books of poetry

*** New publication***

          she takes you in at face-value,

                                  fish-bone lipped, her eye ignites

                         the leaves and branches of your skin –

                                  ablaze you know the kindness of the body-bell,

                               its tapering ring

Beginning as an experience of travel, the book culminates in poems inspired by a decade's exploration in the Black Mountains of South Wales.

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Cennau's Bell

by Graham Hartill

The Collective Press     ISBN 1 899449 01 9   

"Poems that call for meditative reading, essentially spiritual modes of attention….the reader is invited to engage with the significance of cultural emblems and perceptions beyond familiar European norms. The poems contained in Cennau's Bell are especially relevant to the task of ' imagining Wales' as one of the world's most vibrant and deep-rooted cultures."       Anne Cluysenaar