Some Things That Have Happened So Far

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Winner of our Backlash Best Book Award for Poetry

Within Gareth Culshaw’s captivating literary work, we embark on an immersive journey across the Welsh landscape, delving into the intricacies of his childhood memories and tracing them to the present day. This eloquent homage to Wales signifies a milestone for our small press as our first attempt at translation.

Gareth’s arrestingly fresh use of language sets every poem alight in this moving collection. Playful, tender, and mournful lyrics evoke the universal through keen observation of the particular. His contemplative portraits of people and place are unforgettable.

“In Some Things That Have Happened So Far, pin-sharp memories of the past co-exist and collide with present experiences. The themes of childhood and age run through the collection, including the moving long poem, ‘Letter to Tom.’ Here are extraordinary poems of ordinary life, set in an edgeland landscape where urban streets with their cars and wheelie-bins can lead to wild places ‘inhabited by redwings, fieldfares, and skylarks.’ All this is conveyed in the poet’s characteristically vivid, original, and surreal imagery in which the sound of a clock is like ‘an axe …chopping / the kindling of time’.”

Mary Robinson

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