Try the Wilderness FirstTry the Wilderness First: Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel y Ffin is the story of controversial artist Eric Gills artistic and religious community in the Black Mountains of Wales during the 1920s, told through the character and work of Gill himself and poet and artist David Jones, two of Britains most significant twentieth century artists. In it Jonathan Miles offers a commentary on the radical Catholicism of Gill and on the communitys Arts and Crafts

For sixthly he rolls upon wash

but Next Year Will Be Better also tells of skiffle

A Female Scene is published in conjunction with the Anglo-Catalan Society

fierce militancy and painful tenderness

it also provides a wealth of detail on McLean’s life and beliefs

where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol: an anguished plea for prison reform

or as a dark and ironic account of one man’s belief that his personality and his actions are two different things

In the 1960s he was heavily involved in the anti-war movement in the USA

· A lively guide to the idiosyncrasies of Hadrian’s Wall

His first collection of poems

What if your testimony

John Killick on Douglas Dunn