Awen Publications

In a verse sequence that swoops between wit and ancient wisdom, between the mystical and the mischievous, award-winning novelist Lindsay Clarke elucidates the trickster nature of Hermes, the...

This seminal first collection of short stories by one of the leading literary figures in New Caledonia, who's been at forefront of French-language Pacific literature for four decades, appears here in...

Each poem in Glossing the Spoils works like an intricate time-travel machine, carrying the reader back to the beginnings of Western European literature. Like an ancient clapper bridge with its...

Thirteen mythic stories of initiation featuring 21st-century kelpies, sirens and holy fools, a river of tears and a girl who dances on fire, an ice maiden shaman, a witch in a secret garden, Queen...

The sound of snow falling on a Somerset hillside, the evanescence of a waterspout on a remote Scottish island, the invisible view from a Welsh mountain, the light on the Grand Canal in Venice, the...

Exploring dispossession in a range of forms - from colonial legacies in Scotland and Australia to impacts of industrial civilisation on human health, planetary systems, and our children's future -...