The Brittle SeaFor two decades Paul Henry has been quietly building an oeuvre of beautifully crafted poems. Born into a family of musicians, music pervades his poems on childhood, as do a large cast of aunts, neighbours, friends and relations, many of whom appear in Dylan Thomas like character sketches. Some of his earliest portrait poems are set against the Breconshire villages where Henry lived from his mid teens; a move south to Newport inspires poems about the

the harshness of place and weather

The collection is filled with sensual

gives the song to his tribesmen

and episodes of the CBeebies and RTÉ series Garth & Bev (2009/10)

Listowel Writers' Week and The Cúirt International Festival of Literature

Soldiers drown in their blood

English and Hungarian

who encourages her to kill her husband and appropriate his land

He perfected the art of writing sharp and succinct letters so that more than 2

Michelene Wandor is a playwright

translated by the author and Chris Beckett

Jeni Williams and David Woolley